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The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today alleged that JD-U President and Union Minister R.C.P Singh will soon oust Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his key aides from the party.

The RJD spokesperson Shakti Singh Yadav warned that the “Pramod Chandravansi incident will soon be replicated with Nitish Kumar and his trusted leaders of JD-U.”

He questioned why Nitish Kumar is not criticising the incident where security personnel of Singh threw Pramod Chandravansi out from the official residence of the Union minister. “R.C.P. Singh is working like a dictator in the JD-U” he claimed.

The Delhi High Court on Friday backed the formation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India and asked the Centre to take the necessary steps in this matter.

Stressing on the need for a civil code 'common to all' in view of changing paradigms, the court noted that the modern Indian society is gradually becoming "homogeneous", dissipating "traditional barriers" of religion, community and caste.

According to a report in a Business Daily, Justice Prathiba M Singh, who passed the judgment observed that courts have been repeatedly confronted with the conflicts that arise in personal laws. "People belonging to various communities, castes, and religions, who forge marital bonds, struggle with such conflicts," she observed.

Private offices, malls, weekly markets and the Metro will be shut down in Delhi if the test positivity rate (TPR) rises above 2%, and the city will be put under a curfew if the number breaches 5%, according to a new Covid-19 action plan approved by authorities that sets clear thresholds for curbs that kick in from as low as 0.5% TPR in order to scuttle an outbreak.

The graded response action plan, which harks back to a similar mechanism to fight air pollution during pre-winter months, was drafted by an expert committee formed by the Delhi government and approved by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

It classifies outbreak severity into four bands – yellow, amber, orange and red – with each representing a more severe outbreak and, thus, stricter curbs than the one preceding it.

As Kalyan Singh has been in hospital here, BJP president J P Nadda has come down from Delhi to visit him, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been over twice, Union minister Rajnath Singh has come calling, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has phoned in to check up on his health.

With elections round the corner in Uttar Pradesh, as the BJP does caste maths to rally support (including in the recent Union Cabinet reshuffle), Kalyan, the former CM of UP, the prominent Lodh leader and one of the BJP's preeminent Ram temple movement faces, finds himself the focus of special attention.