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Jammu, Sep 14 (PTI) Several organisations of Kashmiri Pandits observed Martyr's day here and in Delhi on Monday, demanding their rehabilitation in the Valley and setting up of a panel to probe the "genocide" the community was allegedly subjected to.

The Kashmiri Pandits have been observing 'Balidan Divas' (Martyr's day) since 1990 to pay homage to the community members and security forces who laid down their lives fighting terrorism in the Union Territory.

New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) Seven former civil servants have moved the Supreme Court to become parties to a pending plea seeking stay of telecast of Sudarshan TV's 'Bindas Bol' programme on alleged "infiltration" of Muslim into bureaucracy.

The Delhi High Court, on September 11, had declined to stay the telecast of the series of programmes, whose promo had claimed that the channel would show the 'big expose on conspiracy to infiltrate Muslims in government service'.

New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has gone into self-isolation.

Sources said that over the past few days, he visited the official residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, met Health Minister Satyendra Jain and held meetings with education department officials.

New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) The government on Monday banned the export of all varieties of onions with immediate effect, a move aimed at increasing availability and curbing prices of the commodity in the domestic market.

"The export of all varieties of onions... is prohibited with immediate effect," the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification.

The DGFT, an arm of the commerce ministry, deals with exports and imports-related issues.

Delhi; 14 Sep 2020 (UMMN): India has slipped 26 spots from 79th position to 105th in The Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report prepared by Canada’s Fraser Institute.

Delhi; 14 Sep 2020 (UMMN): Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been readmitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday, nearly two weeks after he was discharged from the hospital. Shah has been undergoing post-Covid-19 care and was having breathing difficulty.

55-year-old BJP leader was tested positive for coronavirus, and was admitted to Medanta – a private hospital in Gurgaon on August 2.

New Delhi, Sep 13 (PTI) BJP MP Manoj Tiwari has written to Union Railways minister Piyush Goyal for a joint meeting of stakeholders including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for better planning and coordination for compliance of the Supreme Court order to remove 48,000 slum dwellings along railway tracks in the city.

Tiwari has also written a letter to the Delhi chief minister for the rehabilitation of the affected slum dwellers and arrangement of transit accommodation for them.

New Delhi, Sep 12 (PTI) The Delhi Police busted a fake ghee manufacturing unit in Outer Delhi's Bawana and arrested five men, officials said on Saturday.

Those arrested have been identified as Sandeep, Akash, Ratan, Rohit and Ankesh, they said.

The accused started the manufacturing unit before the lockdown began as they had lost their jobs. They manufactured ghee using oil, chemical-based colourants, essence and other chemicals, the police said.

New Delhi, Sep 12 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to conduct environmental audit and recover fine from Amazon and Flipkart for violation of environmental norms.

The green panel observed that the statutory regulators were not taking coercive measures, including invoking of "polluter pays" principle for enforcing the statutory norms against the e-commerce firms.

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI) Industrial production shrank by 10.4 per cent in July, mainly due to lower output of manufacturing, mining and power generation sectors, official data showed on Friday.

Explaining the reasons behind the fall in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said a large number of industrial units were not operating from the end of March due to the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19.