The Covid story across the country’s districts
India has recorded at least 10.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, the second highest in the world after the US. But the trajectory of the new cases in India has been showing a promising trend – one that actually started almost five months back. India recorded 11,492 daily new cases on average in the week ending February 7, only 12% of the peak – 93,617 cases were recorded at peak on September 16. India is so far the only country among the five countries with the highest number of confirmed cases to not have seen a second wave of the infection. New cases of the infection are now significantly lower than the peak in most parts of India except in the state of Kerala.
NEW DELHI: Punjabi actorturned-activist Deep Sidhu was arrested from Haryana’s Karnal on Monday night for his alleged role in the violence and vandalism at the Red Fort during the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, Delhi Police said on Tuesday, claiming that he played a key role in instigating protesters.
Sidhu was produced before a city court on Tuesday afternoon, which sent him to seven days in police custody. Police told the court that Sidhu congratulated the men who hoisted flags at the Red Fort and also did a Facebook live from the complex. Police said he was seen entering the Red Fort with people carrying swords, sticks and flags and delivered speeches to incite peo
ple. Police said many videos on his verified Facebook page through which he claimed to be innocent and was not among the rioters were uploaded from the US. In those videos, Sidhu said he was not a “traitor” or a “rioter”.
Police officers, privy to the case details, said that after Sidhu’s photos and videos surfaced on social media, he fled to