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With 95 more patients succumbing to the viral infection, the overall toll mounted to 47,246, it said.

The northeastern state reported 22 fresh cases, pushing the tally to 3,847, he said.

Trial will be a multicentre, randomised controlled study, which will include safety and immunogenicity

A bench of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik was hearing a plea filed by city resident Sunaina Holey who was booked by Mumbai and Palghar police for tweets against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

As the meeting continued for more than two hours, sources said the farmer representatives were unanimous in seeking repeal of the three laws

With his death, Gujarat has lost two Rajya Sabha members within in a week, with veteran Congress leader and Treasurer Ahmed Patel succumbing on November 26.

Farmers remained at Chilla border where police have been deployed on both the Delhi as well as Noida side in huge numbers, prohibiting the protestors from proceeding

Bilkis, popularly known as the Shaheen Bagh Dadi, had expressed her willingness to join the farmers' protest at the Delhi-Haryana border at Singhu

Baxi, who is currently Financial Controller for Castrol's businesses globally will take up the role and join the Board on January 1, 2021, Castrol India said in a release.

"We have seen some ill-informed comments by Canadian leaders relating to farmers in India. Such comments are unwarranted, especially when pertaining to the internal affairs of a democratic country," External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said.

Besides, positive developments on COVID-19 vaccine front, improved domestic macro-economic data and weakness of the American currency against key rivals also supported the rupee.

Farmers had faced water cannons and teargas when they were heading towards the national capital as part of their 'Delhi Chalo' march against the farm laws.

Collections of tax on the sale of goods and rendering of services came in at Rs 1,04,963 crore in November

According to sources, the Pakistani army also suffered numerous casualties in the "strong and effective" retaliation by the Indian troops as several of their posts were also destroyed.

The accused Pankaj Sudhakar, 42, a resident of Kalkaji Extension, works as a dentist at a clinic in Saket, they said.

Govt instead of sympathising with farmers' cause used all measures like water cannons, tear gas to stop them . I cannot continue my support to such a govt, said Independent MLA Sombir Sangwan

The farmers have been fighting for their rights in this cold. These laws should be withdrawn immediately, said Chandrashekar Azad

The range of the new land attack version of the missile has been extended to 400 km from the original 290 km.

On the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold contracts for February delivery traded higher by Rs 57, or 0.12 per cent, at Rs 47,975 per 10 gram in a business turnover of 13,251 lots.

Guards opened fire at the high-security Mahara prison outside Colombo on Sunday night after prisoners went on the rampage demanding to be freed because of soaring coronavirus cases in jails.

In a tweet, Vijayan described the farmers as the "lifeblood" of the country and said it it time to stand with them.

The bench said that the Gujarat government must be answerable and there can't just be an inquiry and report

According to the petitioner, Chakrapani was recognised as the president of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha political party, but it claimed that the Election Commission later withdrew the recognition merely a few days later.

Sena sources said Matondkar's name was forwarded to Governor B S Koshyari by the Shiv Sena recently for nomination to the Legislative Council from the governor's quota.