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Farmers Protest updates: Gehlot-Pilot together at public protest meet

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Jyoti B
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The Congress party’s Rajasthan unit, lead by chief minister Ashok Gehlot, Congress Rajasthan chief Govind Singh Dotasara and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, will on Sunday hold demonstrations against the recently passed farm laws.

If things go as planned, this will be the first time since the Gehlot-Pilot tussle broke out, that both the leaders will be together at a public protest meet.

The protest meet is scheduled to be held on Sunday at 12 noon at Shahid Smarak in Jaipur.

“Sachin Pilot will participate in dharna against farm laws in Jaipur tomorrow at 12 PM,” a statement issued by Pilot’s office mentioned on Saturday.

The seventh round of talks between the farmer unions and the central government will take place on Monday. Earlier, Union minister of state (MoS) for agriculture Kailash Choudhary said he was confident that this meeting would bring out a solution and also conclude the ongoing stir. 

Meanwhile, Farmers based in Punjab have sent legal notices to Union Minister Giriraj Singh, Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, and BJP leader Ram Madhav for their allegedly defamatory remarks on the farmers’ stir outside the national capital, according to ANI.

Farmers have been protesting at different borders of the national capital for over a month against the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. (ANI)

CDS General Bipin Rawat arrives in Arunachal Pradesh-Assam tour, warns China

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Neha Kumari
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CDS General Bipin Rawat visited various air force bases in the forward areas near the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam to assess the security situation in the western region of India.

General Rawat met Army, ITBP and Special Frontier Force soldiers stationed at various bases including Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley and Lohit Sector. He said that the Chief Defense Chief commended the soldiers for taking innovative steps to maintain effective surveillance and to increase the operational preparedness.

General Bipin Rawat, who arrived in the Northeast after completing one year as the country’s first CDS. He also reached the Dibang Valley and Lohit sector of Arunachal Pradesh. These areas can be reached only by helicopters and planes. He also met Army, Air Force, ITBP and other soldiers during his tour.

CDS General Bipin Rawat said, “Seeing the high spirits of the soldiers, it is sure that those who compete with the Indian Army will be ruined.” He also praised the measures being taken by the army personnel for vigilance and surveillance to deal with any daring of China on the Tibet border.


Praising the soldiers living in extremely difficult conditions, General Bipin Rawat said, ‘Only the soldiers of India in the world can dutifully do duty under such difficult conditions. They are always ready to go to any extent to protect the country’s borders. He said that no power can stop the Indian armed forces from performing their responsibility.

After the year 1967, 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a fierce skirmish in the strategic Galvan Valley in June 2020. In this skirmish, Chinese soldiers also suffered double the number of casualties. Since then, border tension between India and China has increased. Currently, the armies of both countries are standing on the LAC. Foreign Minister S.K. Jaishankar had said that our relations with China are in the most difficult phase at this time. He also said that never in the last 30-40 years have relations between the two countries been so bad. Chinese troops’ aggression on the LAC will only worsen relations.

26/11 Mumbai terror attacks conspirator Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi arrested in Pakistan

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Jyoti B
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LeT operations commander and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks planner Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was on Saturday arrested in Pakistan on terror financing charges.

He was allegedly running a dispensary using funds collected for terrorism financing. Lakhvi was designated as a global terrorist by the UN under the United Nations Security Council Resolution in 2008 after the Mumbai attacks.

“Following an intelligence-based operation conducted by the CTD Punjab, proscribed organisation LeT leader Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of terrorism financing,” PTI quoted the Pakistan CTD.

Moreover, the CTD has also said that the terrorism financing case pertaining to which Lakhvi has been arrested was registered in a police station of CTD Lahore. His trial is set to be held before the Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore. 

The UN-designated terrorist was behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 when 10 heavily-armed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan created mayhem in the city, killing 166 people and injuring over 300 others.

The Mumbai terror attack left the nation in state of despair and shock in which the security forces killed nine terrorists at the end of four-day long battle.

Sourav Ganguly hospitalised after suffering ‘mild cardiac arrest’

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Shivani Negi
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president and former India Cricket Team Captain Sourav Ganguly has been admitted to Woodlands hospital in Kolkata after suffering a ‘mild cardiac arrest’. According to various media reports, the cricketer felt uneasy while exercising at his personal gymnasium in the morning and was rushed to a hospital subsequently.

BCCI secretary and Ganguly’s close friend, Jay Shah took to Twitter to share update regarding cricketer’s health. “I wish and pray for the speedy recovery of @SGanguly99. I’ve spoken to his family. Dada is stable and is responding well to the treatment,” Shah tweeted.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) president and former India Cricket Team Captain Sourav Ganguly has been admitted to Woodlands hospital in Kolkata after suffering a ‘mild cardiac arrest’. According to various media reports, the cricketer felt uneasy while exercising at his personal gymnasium in the morning and was rushed to a hospital subsequently.

“Just got to know about your ailment Sourav. Hope each passing day brings you closer to a full and speedy recovery! Get well soon,” wrote Sachin Tendulkar.

According to Woodlands press bulletin, the cricketer is doing fine and will stay in the hospital for the next 48-hour.

India and UK flights: government issues SOP

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Jyoti B
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The government had last week extended the suspension of flights to and from the UK from 31 December till 7 January to prevent the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus found in the UK, considered to be much more infectious.

Days after announcing the partial resumption of flights from January 8, the government on Saturday issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for passengers who will be arriving from the United Kingdom amid the concerns over the new Covid-19 strain. 

1) In a standard operating procedure (SOP) for UK returnees, the Union Health Ministry said that each passenger arriving from the UK would have to produce his or her COVID-19 negative report from a test done 72 hours prior to the journey on the online portal (www.newdelhiairport.in)

2) Airlines to ensure the availability of negative test report before allowing the passenger to board the flight.

3) In-flight announcements must also be made explaining the relevant information to the passengers. Relevant information in this regard shall be prominently displayed in arrival area and waiting area of the airports of arrival.

4) All the passengers arriving from UK in all international flights would be mandatorily subjected to self-paid RT-PCR tests on arrival at the Indian airports concerned (port of entry).

5) Adequate arrangements for passengers waiting for their RT-PCR test as well as test results duly following effective isolation may also be made at the airports in conjunction with the airport authorities.

6) If the genomic sequencing indicates the presence of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 then the patient will continue to remain in a separate isolation unit. The passenger will continue to remain in isolation till s/he tests negative.

The SOPs shall be valid till January 30 (23:59 hrs) or further orders whichever is earlier.

The new strain is believed to be 70% more infectious and such cases have spiralled within days in the UK.

This means that the new variant may increase the number of fresh cases alarmingly, which will lead to more people being quarantined or hospitalised.

The presence of the new UK variant of the virus has already been reported by Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore.

Farmers Protest updates: Tractor Rally on R-Day

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Jyoti B
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Amid the continuing deadlock over the three contentious farm laws, farm leaders announced plans to intensify their protest if the talks with the government fail and if there is no relief from the Supreme Court.

Farmers today threatened to hold a tractor rally – “Kisaan Parade” – in the national capital on Republic Day.

The ultimatum of a face-off with the government comes two days ahead of its scheduled meeting with the farmer’s organisations to break the impasse over the farm laws.

The decision for the January 26 agitation was taken at a meeting of the seven-member Coordination Committee of the morcha.

Thousands have been camping on the outskirts of the city since late November, demanding repeal of the three laws.

The protesters said they chose Republic Day “because it represents the supremacy of the people of India”, and also January 26 will mark the completion of two months of the biggest protests in the farm sector in years. 

Covid-19 vaccine will be available for free across India, says Harsh Vardhan

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Shivani Negi
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As India gears to kickstart world’s biggest vaccination drive against novel coronavirus, Health minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday announced that covid-19 shots will be free for everyone across the country, while urging everyone to refrain from falling prey to misconceptions.

“I appeal to people not to pay heed to rumours. Ensuring safety & efficacy of vaccine is our priority. Different kinds of rumours were spread during polio immunisation but people took the vaccine & India is now polio-free,” Vardhan said after reviewing the dry vaccination run at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) hospital in the national capital.

“In 1st phase of #COVID19 vaccination, free vaccine shall be provided across the nation to most prioritised beneficiaries that incl 1 cr healthcare & 2 cr frontline workers,” tweeted Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today.

In a major announcement on Thursday evening, the Centre announced that dry run will be conducted by all the states and union territories ahead of inoculation.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the objective of the dry run is to prepare the country and “assess operational feasibility in the use of COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application in a field environment, to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges and guide the way forward prior to actual implementation”.

The Health Minister’s comments follow expert panel’s nod to AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine developed indigenously by Serum Institute of India.

SEBI Imposes A Fine Of Rs 15 Crore On Mukesh Ambani

By
Neha Kumari
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A few days ago, Mukesh Ambani has slipped one rung from the title of world’s first richest man to reach number two, Mukesh Ambani now second richest Asian. Just a few days have passed since the case that another bad news has come for Ambani. On Friday, the stock market regulator SEBI imposed strong penalties on SEBI fines Reliance Industries and Mukesh Ambani for the misappropriation of shares. Apart from them, two other entities have also been fined by SEBI.

SEBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 15 crore on Mukesh Ambani, while Rs 25 crore on Mukesh Ambani’s company Reliance Industries. That is, Mukesh Ambani has got a shot of Rs 40 crore. Apart from them, a fine of Rs 20 crore has been imposed on Navi Mumbai SEZ Private Limited and Rs 10 crore on Mumbai Set Limited. SEBI has alleged that RIL had made a mess in the trading of IPL shares.

SEBI has said that it has taken this decision after reviewing all the facts and circumstances of the case during the investigation. Along with this, the rules of SEBI, law, rights and evidence presented in this case were also studied. The action was taken after an investigation into allegations of irregularities in the trading of Reliance Petroleum Limited shares. Two other companies have also been fined.

SEBI has said in the 95-page order that any manipulation in the share price reduces investor confidence in the market, as such manipulation causes loss to investors. According to SEBI, common investors in this case did not know that Reliance Industries was behind this buy and sell of shares. The buy-and-sell was done incorrectly, which impacted Reliance Petroleum shares. This left ordinary investors at a loss.

SEBI had earlier asked Reliance Industries and 12 promoters to deposit Rs 447 crore on 24 March 2017. They were also banned from trading their shares. The company appealed against this in the Securities Appellate Tribunal. But in November 2020, the tribunal rejected the company’s appeal, upholding SEBI’s decision. Reliance Industries had then said that it would challenge the tribunal’s decision in the Supreme Court. In the information given to the stock exchange after the tribunal’s decision, Reliance Industries had said that no rules have been violated in the trading of shares.

UK flights to resume from Jan 8

By
Neha Kumari
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Suspended air service between India and Britain will be restored from 8 January. Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that only 30 flights per week would be operational between the two countries. He also said that this system will continue till 23 January.

More than 60 passenger flights were operated per week between the two countries in December. However, the aviation ministry has suspended all passenger flights between the two countries since 23 December.

The move was taken as a precaution after a new strain of the corona virus was found in Britain. Puri on Wednesday announced that passenger flights between India and Britain would be postponed until January 7, and would be restored following “stringent regulations”. Earlier suspension period was from 23 December to 31 December.

Hardeep Singh Puri said that it has been decided to resume flights between India and Britain from 8 January 2021. Until January 23, only 15-15 flights will be allowed between the two countries during a week. He informed that flights to the UK will operate from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a tweet on Wednesday, “It has been decided to extend a temporary ban on flights coming to and from the UK from 7 January 2021. After this, resumption of flights will start strictly, for which details will be announced soon. We are expecting a small extension of the temporary suspension as we are getting a complete picture of what has happened. I do not expect the expansion to be long or uncertain. ” The suspension began on December 22 at 11.59 am. Prior to suspension, Vistara, Air India, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways were operating flights between the two countries.

After the new strain of Corona virus was found in Britain, many countries had stopped flights coming from Britain. India also took the same step. In India, restrictions have been imposed in the early days of the new year in view of the danger of new strains of Corona. The number of people infected with Corona strain of Britain in India has increased by more than 20.

Dry Run to begin across all states from today

By
Neha Kumari
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Dry run of the vaccine will be started today after the emergency use of Corona Vaccine has been approved. The actual vaccination campaign will be carried out on the basis of this dry run to be conducted across the country. No vaccine will be used during the dry run. Through this, it will be tested only how effective the plan of vaccination is made by the government.

Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, himself arrived at GTB Hospital in Delhi at 9:30 am today to take stock of the dry run. He said that the country has experience of vaccination. There are strict rules to follow the guideline in vaccination. The Drug Controller General of India will take a decision on the vaccine soon. Ignore the rumors on the vaccine.

Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan himself visited GTB Hospital in Delhi and took stock. He said here that this country has the experience of vaccination and this vaccine is for the safety of the public, do not make any misconceptions about it. Let us know that the dry run of vaccine is being done in three places in Delhi today.

Venkateswara Hospital in Dwarka has been chosen for the dry run in Delhi. While Daryaganj dispensary has been selected in the Central District. At the same time, there will be a dry run in Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital of Dilshad Garden in Shahdara district.

Till now such a dry run was done in four states of the country, Punjab, Assam, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. In these four states, good results regarding dry run were revealed. After this, the government now decided to implement this dry run across the country. For this, the Union Health Ministry has also constituted a special team, which will closely monitor the entire process.

Deepika Padukon deletes all her Instagram post and leaves a audio message

By
Neha Kumari
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Always being active on social media, Deepika Padukone has now deleted all her insta posts. They have also deleted their tweets.

When Deepika’s Insta account was seen on the occasion of New Year, zero post appeared. At the same time, her Insta story can still be seen. Deepika herself has not given a reason for this, but many types of speculations are being put up.

According to the news, Deepika is preparing for a particular project. She has also changed his profile photo. Where is it going in such a way that it can also be a part of a promotion.

Just a few minutes ago, Deepika posted an audio message on Instagram.

In her special audio message, Deepika Padukone has congratulated everyone for the new year. Deepika said that last year was very bad for everyone. This audio message was the first message in her audio diary. At the same time, Deepika said that 2021 everyone’s good and all be healthy. Deepika has posted this audio message on her Instagram profile. Now only one post is visible on her Insta profile.

Deepika has more than five crore followers on Instagram and about 25 million followers on Twitter.

Deepika is in Rajasthan to celebrate the new year with husband Ranveer Singh. Actress Neetu Kapoor recently shared a photo from Ranthambore with Ranveer Singh and her son Ranbir Kapoor. However neither Deepika nor Alia Bhatt were seen in the picture.

Anushka-Virat ring in New Year with Hardik-Natasa and others on a ‘positive’ note

By
Shivani Negi
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Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma rang in her new year with husband and cricketer Virat Kohli. The duo were accompanied by India cricketer Hardik Pandya, his wife Natasa Stankovic and few other friends.

Well, the father-to-be Virat Kohli took to Instagram to share some pictures on social media and gave his fans a glimpse of his wife Anushka Sharma and his New Year celebrations with friends last night.

The Cricketer captioned the photo with, ‘Friends who test negative together spend positive time together! ☺️ Nothing like a get together with friends in safe environments. May this year bring a lot of hope, joy, happiness and good health. Stay safe! #HappyNewYear2021’

In one photo the couple were posing in a dining table with all the friends and in another photo, they were posing together for a lovely click.

The photo shows Anushka donned in a stunning printed short dress, on the other side, Virat looked dashing as ever in his black shirt. Natasa is seen in an-all black ensemble while Hardik looks dapper in an black and white printed shirt.

See the pictures here:

Anushka, too, took to her Instagram to share some of the pictures with husband Virat Kohli wherein the lovely couple was seen sharing a candid smile. “Wishing you all bountiful of love , happiness and prosperity this new year . From us to you, ” she captioned the pics.




Anushka and Virat will welcome their first child this month. The couple announced the news of being pregnant in August 2020. Well, Anushka has been ruling all over the internet by flaunting her baby bump. She also finished all her work commitments recently while Virat Kohli flew back from Australia on paternity leave.


On the work front, the actress was last seen in Aanand L Rai’s 2018 release, ‘Zero’. The movie also starred Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif in lead roles.

Court calls Kangana Ranaut’s merging of her flats in Mumbai a “grave violation”

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Shivani Negi
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Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut violated the sanctioned plan while merging three flats, a civil court ruled out while as it rejected her plea which sought to restrain the BMC from demolishing the unauthorized construction of her house in Mumbai.

Kangana had filed an application which was rejected by a court in suburban Dindoshi on Thursday. In his order, Judge L S Chavan noted that Kangana merged three of her flats into one on the fifth floor of a 16-storey building in the Khar area of Mumbai. The judge further said her action resulted into habitation of Floor Space Index which does not make a part of flat-owner. Additionally, merging the flat also covered sunk area, duct area and common passage.

“These are grave violations of the sanctioned plan for which the permission of the competent authority is required,” the court said.

Earlier this month, BMC demolished parts of Kangana’s Manikarnika Films in the Pali Hill area for alleged “unauthorised” construction. The actress had moved to High Court against it and the court ruled demolition as unauthorised and malicious.

Meanwhile, for her property in Khar, the BMC had sent a notice to the actor in March 2018, while an another notice has asked her to restore the structure of her flats into their original position as per the original plan.

Kangana had challenged the demolition notice and requested the court to restrain the civic body from demolishing her property. The court had then ordered status-quo.

Kanagana had been loggerheads with Maharashtra government led by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. In last few months, Kangana attacked the Maharashtra CM more than so often which resulted into a war of words between the two.

US tops 20 millions covid-19 cases

By
Shivani Negi
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In a grim milestone, the total number of covid-19 cases in the United States surpassed 20 million-mark on Friday, as per the data updated by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. As on date, the country’s Covid-19 case count stands at 20,007,149,

The United States have seen a rapid surge in daily cases since Thanksgiving with 78,000 people suffering virus related deaths in December alone. Notably, the US is the only country to record over 3,000 daily deaths due to the covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday alone, more than 3,900 people died of Covid-19 in the US, a new daily record. So far, 346,408 people have died of the novel virus which is one out of every 950 US residents.

California has logged in 2,297,336 cases, followed by Texas with 1,766,791 cases and Florida with 1,323,315 cases. The states of New York and Illinois both registered more than 960,000 cases, since the virus first emerged in China’s Wuhan city, as per the data revealed by CSSE.

 Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona are the other states to record over 520,000 cases.

The United States is the worst hit nation by the pandemic and the experts believe that the worst is yet to come as hospitals gear remain flooded with patients post the holiday season.

According to The Covid Tracking Project, currently, there are more than 125,000 COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals, up 25% in the last month.

The recent months saw the worst spike in number of daily cases with country reporting over 10 million cases in October and November. US Covid-19 cases reached 10 million on November 9.

Meanwhile, the United States has approved two vaccines — Pfizer/BioNtech and Moderna– for emergency use authorisation(EUA). It’s been over two weeks since the country started rolling out the vaccine in the market. In the first phase, the country is currently vaccinating healthcare workers, frontline workers and people aged above 60 or with comorbidities.

In a bid to instill trust among Americans, many US dignitaries have received the vaccine against coronavirus. President-elect Joe Biden, Vice-president Kamala Harris, Vice President Mike Pence and top scientist Anthony Fauci were administered the vaccine on live television.

Ashwin came with a plan for Australia: Labuschagne

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Harshit
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Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne admitted that his batsman led by Ravichandran Ashwin fell into the trap of Indian bowlers, although he defended the in-form Steve Smith. The third Test of the series will be played in Sydney from 7 January.

The Australian team was dismissed for 191, 195 and 200 runs in 3 out of 4 innings. Ashwin has taken 10 wickets so far, out of which Smith dismissed two and Labushen once.

Labushen said in a virtual press conference, ‘I have never encountered Ashwin before. No statistics can be found that apart from being a great bowler, he is also such a smart bowler.

Labuschagne said, ‘He has an average of more than 60 in Test cricket. He has been playing consistently well since the beginning of his career. He likes to score fast. ‘

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