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On Friday, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) registered an FIR case against actress Kangana Ranaut in Patna civil court after the star accused party chief Upendra Kushwaha of insulting her.

On one hand, while the National Lok Samta Party registered a strong objection to actress Kangana Ranaut's tweets, stating it has insulted the party's president, Upendra Kushwaha, on the other, it also termed the star's undignified comment as one that could spread hatred in the country and society. 

The party's national general secretary and spokesperson Fazal Imam Mallick said that the tweet shows the mindset of Kangana, who just for the sake of cheap publicity indulges in this kind of hypocrisy on social media. Mallick added that the tweet has hurt millions of party workers. 

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Chief Dr Balaram Bhargava tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. As per latest reports, he has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the national capital.

All matter pertaining to the coronavirus is under his supervision. This comes as India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 99.79 lakh with 22,890 new infections being reported in a day.

The total recoveries crossed the 95 lakh-mark, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Friday. With 338 more fatalities, the death toll reached 1,44,789, while the total COVID-19 cases mounted to 99,79,447, the data updated at 8 am showed.

Even as the Trinamool Congress in neighbouring Bengal faces massive challenges from the BJP ahead of assembly polls next year, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday invoked regionalism while launching an attack on both BJP and Congress leaders accusing them of being remote-controlled by their Central leadership.

Addressing the first executive body meeting of the Biju Yuva Janata Dal, the youth wing of the party through the virtual route, Patnaik said only a regional party can fight for the interest of the state.

“The Congress government in the state was remote-controlled from Delhi. The BJP governments in other states also follow the direction of the national leadership. National parties are bound to compromise on the distinctive requirements of a state for gains in the larger national context. State leaders of national parties neither have the voice to insist on protecting our unique heritage nor do they have the intent to do so in a hierarchical centralized national party structure. BJD is the only regional party that is working hard to preserve and promote the unique identity of Odisha," Patnaik said.

Police on Friday attached property of Deep Prakash Dubey, brother of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, in the Krishna Nagar area here, officials said. Deep Prakash is absconding since the Kanpur ambush and a reward of Rs 50,000 has been declared on his arrest, Station House Officer of Krishna Nagar Mahesh Kumar said.

"After the permission of the court, we completed formalities of attaching the property (of Deep) in Krishna Nagar on Friday, Kumar said.

Eight policemen were killed in an ambush by gangster Vikas Dubey and his associates on July 3 in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter in the morning of July 10 when he tried to flee after a police vehicle carrying him from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh to Kanpur met with an accident, the police had said.