New Delhi

Few details have emerged on how the fighting began, but government sources familiar with events said PLA soldiers responded to the Indian action by throwing stones from the high ground above Point 14, and then staged an assault using iron rods and clubs.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde briefly heard senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the DMK, and asked the counsel for the other side as to why the Speaker was not acting on the disqualification plea.

The kits will allow faster diagnosis without laboratory examination.The ICMR has recommended the use of rapid antigen test kits for diagnosis of COVID-19 in containment zones and healthcare settings in combination with the RT-PCR test.

Home Minister Amit Shah earlier Sunday said the Centre would provide 500 railway coaches to Delhi in view of the shortage of beds.

The mercury hovered close to 40 degrees Celsius in the national capital while the humidity levels oscillated between 40 and 82 per cent.

However, this shortfall is estimated to be 83 per cent less than what it could have been without the lockdown and public health measures.

The revised map is a controversial one, which includes three Indian territories of Limpiyadhura, Kalapani and Lipulekh, and has been earlier rejected by India as "unjustified cartographic assertion".

Officials said 17 other officials, who also came in contact with the positive patients have been asked to home isolate.

Sanjeev Kumar was posted with the Crime Branch and had been admitted to GTB Hospital after testing positive for the virus.

The bench said the government is expected to be vigilant and will evaluate the situation and if it is found that the rate of infection is going up, they can always review their decision and impose curbs.

This is the first time that more than 1,800 case have been reported in a day in Delhi. The previous highest spike in fresh cases of 1513 was recorded on June 3.

Dr VK Paul said that while India has adequate healthcare facilities, the ease with which citizens can access them should be worked on.

NDRF Director General (DG) S N Pradhan said the force has got stocks of regular and 'modified' personal protective equipment gear to protect its rescuers from coronavirus and natural vagaries during floods and other disaster scenarios.

It also said there was a need for states and union territories to streamline the vigilance and supervision of actions of their officers and staff for taking appropriate action so that the measures and schemes reaches to the beneficiaries.

The petitioner's counsel said the matter came up before Justice V Kameswar Rao who said the plea would be heard by its division bench on June 16.

He also sought a apology from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for the move, saying no such discrimination should be done in the time of crisis.