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Trinamool Congress leader Babul Supriyo took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday and claimed that five more leaders may quit the saffron party in West Bengal.

Babul Supriyo, who joined TMC three months back, tweeted (in Bengali), "One wicket after another is falling in BJP. Five more gone today. Shiv Babu (national General Secretary Shiv Prakash who had overseen BJP campaign before assembly polls) must have gone to Mount Kailash by now (euphuism for retirement). If you want to find Bengali crabs who will pull you from behind go to Muralidhar lane (the address of the state BJP)."

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh kicked up another controversy by claiming that women over 40 to 50 years of age are more influenced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He made the remarks at a Jan Jagran camp in Bhopal while addressing the Congress workers.

In a purported video, Singh is heard saying who are impressed by PM Modi and who are not. Singh said, "Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said something interesting; women who are 40 to 50 years old are slightly more influenced by PM Modi, but girls who wear jeans and keep mobiles are not affected."

The coronavirus-induced restrictions may be reimposed in New Delhi as the case positivity rate in the city inched towards 0.5 per cent, the trigger point of yellow alert under the national capital’s Graded Response Action Plan. The case positivity rate stood at 0.43 per cent on Saturday.

The GRAP was passed by the Delhi government in July 2021 to deal with a possible third wave of Covid-19 pandemic. There are four levels of alert under GRAP, and restrictions will be imposed accordingly.

If the case positivity rate is recorded at more than 0.5 per cent for 2 consecutive days in the city, then the ‘yellow alert’ will kick in. The 'yellow' (level-1) alert will also be sounded if new cases increase to 1,500 or oxygenated bed occupancy reaches 500.

Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) today arrested UP perfume trader Piyush Jain, after a total Rs 187 crore cash was recovered from his factory and residence. Jain, promotor of Odochem Industries of Kannauj district in Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested under the relevant charges of tax law. 

A joint team of DGGI and Local Central GST has recovered Rs 5 crores from Jain`s factory, while another Rs 5 crore has been recovered from his residence in Kannauj, official sources told to a news agency.