Morning Digest | India objects to WHO methodology for calculating COVID-19 death toll; Delhi, U.P. on high alert after violence; and more

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India objects to WHO methodology for calculating COVID-19 death toll

India has been in regular and in-depth technical exchange with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the issue of collecting and making public the COVID-19 death toll in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday in response to  The New York Times article titled India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public dated April 16.

Delhi, U.P. on high alert after violence during Hanuman Jayanthi procession

The national capital and adjoining regions of Uttar Pradesh were put on high alert on Saturday following a confrontation between two communities in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri during a “shobha yatra” on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.

Alleged stone throwing on a procession, which was part of the “yatra”, as it was passing by a mosque located in the C block is understood to have triggered the confrontation, which left several, including six police personnel, injured, a little after 6 p.m.

Congress, Trinamool register wins in bypolls; RJD wrests seat in Bihar

The ruling parties/alliances in West Bengal, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh on Saturday won bypolls to one Lok Sabha and three Assembly seats while Bihar witnessed the principal Opposition party winning the lone Assembly seat up for grabs.