US President Donald Trump said that he has heard rumours that Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris “doesn’t qualify” to serve as US Vice President. Trump referred to a law professor who questioned Harris’s eligibility under the US Constitution because both her parents are immigrants. As per the US Constitution, an American leader must be a natural-born citizen, which makes Harris eligible.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today became the fourth longest serving Prime Minister in Indian history, after surpassing late former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s combined tenure of 2,268 days. PM Modi has also become the longest serving Indian PM of non-Congress origin. India has had a total of 14 Prime Ministers so far.

After US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden named Indian-origin Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate, US President Donald Trump said, “I thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, the most disrespectful of anybody in US Senate.” “She was very nasty to Joe Biden and it’s hard to pick somebody who is that disrespectful,” he added.

Two districts in Telangana, Hyderabad and Medchal-Malkajgiri, are reporting COVID-19 mortality rate higher than the national and states’ averages, said Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a release on Friday. The two districts are among 16 such districts spread across four different states. They have been advised to increase COVID-19 tests per million population and reduce positivity rate.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday tweeted, “Maryada Purushottam Lord Ram is the manifestation of the best human qualities. Ram is love. Ram is compassion. Ram is justice.” He added that Lord Ram can never appear in disgust, in cruelty and in injustice. This comes immediately after Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the Bhoomi Pujan at Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

US President Donald Trump has said that as compared to big countries, America is doing “very well” in the fight against COVID-19. India is having a “tremendous problem” battling coronavirus and China is witnessing a “massive flare-up” in infections, he added. The US has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world.

US President Donald Trump called Twitter’s ‘trending’ topics “ridiculous, illegal, and very unfair.” He tweeted, “So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called ‘Trending’, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one,” he tweeted. Twitter says trends are determined by an algorithm, and by default, are tailored for users based on people they follow, their interests and location.

The number of coronavirus cases in Andhra Pradesh crossed the one lakh mark on Monday after 6,051 people were found infected in the last 24 hours, the state health department said. The tally has now reached 1,02,349, it said. The new cases were detected from a sample size of 43,127 tests which also include 16,543 rapid antigen tests. Andhra Pradesh has conducted a total of 16,86, 446 tests as of Monday.

The areas under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) reported 842 of Telangana’s 1,554 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Telangana’s Health Minister Eatala Rajender tweeted. Telangana reported nine deaths from COVID-19 during the same period, taking its total death to 438, he added. Telangana has reported 49,259 coronavirus cases so far, the minister further said.

NCP President Sharad Pawar has said, “Eradication of COVID-19 is the priority of Maharashtra government, but some people think constructing a temple will help in its mitigation.” Pawar said this when asked about the proposed date for laying of the foundation stone of Ram Temple. This comes after Ram Temple trust invited PM Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is known for his huge social media presence, has reached 60 million followers on Twitter, on Sunday, making him one one the most followed individuals across the globe. With just former US President Barack Obama and current US President Donald Trump ahead of him, PM Modi is the third most followed world leader on Twitter.

A Karnataka Congress councillor’s video has gone viral where he suggests drinking 90 ml rum with a teaspoon of ground pepper as a home remedy against coronavirus. “Eat two half-fried omelettes to ensure coronavirus vanishes,” Ravichandra Gatti from Ullal Municipal Council, Mangaluru, further says. “I’m not saying this as a politician, but as a member of corona committee,” he added.

Out of 231 samples collected from the isolation ward of Hyderabad’s Osmania General Hospital (OGH) for suspected COVID-19 cases, 112 tested positive (48.48%) in the last five days. Reportedly, 48-55% positivity rate is seen among the most critical patients at OGH. “Ten wards with close to over 80 critical patients…being managed by only two PG residents,” an OGH doctor said.

The family of 79-year-old poet-activist Varavara Rao has alleged that they found him lying nearly unconscious in a pool of urine in the transit ward of JJ Hospital in Mumbai, according to a statement by Human Rights Defenders Alert. The statement further added that Rao, who tested positive for COVID-19, took some time to recognise his wife and daughters.

Around 2,200 coronavirus patients in Hyderabad who are under home quarantine have gone missing over the past two weeks, authorities said. Some of these patients have provided wrong phone numbers or home addresses, authorities claimed. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar appealed to these people to come forward and cooperate with authorities.