Close to 50,000 COVID-19 cases for seventh day running, death toll crosses 39,000; PM Modi performs ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ for Ram temple in Ayodhya; ‘Defeat of democracy and secularism’: Asaduddin Owaisi after PM lays foundation stone; Shiv Sena calls transfer of Sushant Singh death case to CBI ‘scripted’; Kerala nun rape case: SC dismisses discharge plea of accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal; and more