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This comes as farmers groups, including women, continued their march towards Delhi while protesting and raising slogans near the border areas of the national capital.

A defence official said the Indian Army immediately responded to the unprovoked firing from across the border.

During campaigning in the run-up to the Assembly polls in October-November, Nitish had taken a dig at his friend turned bete noire Lalu Prasad.

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Zydus Cadila had announced that the phase-I clinical trial of its vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D was over and it has commenced phase-II clinical trials from August.

Massive traffic jams were also reported from Singhu border, Tikri border and Delhi-Gurugram border because of the protest.

The prime minister who is concerned about 'one nation, one election', should also implement "one nation, one treatment", the Congress general secretary in-charge Uttar Pradesh said.

Earlier, the Delhi Police had sought permission from the AAP government to use the city's nine stadiums as temporary jails for the agitating farmers.

Five coronavirus patients were killed after a fire broke out in the ICU of a designated COVID-19 hospital in Gujarat's Rajkot in the early hours of Friday.

Situation was tense at the border points as Delhi Police made repeated announcements on loudspeakers asking the farmers to retreat.

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Farmers' bodies said they will hold a dharna wherever they are stopped from moving towards the national capital.

The bench also said the Supreme Court, high courts and lower courts must be alive to the misuse of criminal law by the state machinery.

Colonel Devender Anand, Defence Ministry spokesman said Pakistan army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation on the LoC in Poonch sector on Thursday night.

Mufti was released on October 14 after being in detention from August 5 last year following the abrogation of the special status of the erstwhile state.

Shilpa Shetty Kundra took to her social media handle on Twitter, and shared a picture with the caption "Praying for peace and healing for every single life that was changed, lost, and altered".

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani expressed grief over the incident and ordered a probe into it.

There are 4,55,555 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 4.89 per cent of the total caseload.

Modi will be arriving at Hakimpet Air Force station in an IAF flight from Pune in the afternoon, an official memo issued by the Telangana Chief Secretary on Thursday night said.

Search is in progress to locate the pilot, who went missing after the accident, the Indian Navy said, while adding that an inquiry has been ordered to investigate the incident.

The gross merchandise value (GMV) numbers increased from $5 billion last year upto $8.3 billion this year, riding on the massive orders coming from smaller cities and towns, according to homegrown consulting firm Redseer.

He was the pioneer of the country's 'Technology Revolution' and helped India build its $100 billion IT industry.

NDA alliance convenor warned the central government that if the police and governments adopted a repressive policy against the farmers, the RLP would demonstrate in favour of the farmers across the country