Breaking News LIVE: Kerala Reports First Case Of Omicron As UK Returnee Detected With Covid Variant

Breaking News LIVE, December 1, 2021: This LIVE Blog brings to you the latest breaking news of developments in India, COVID variant Omicron & other news from around the world.

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Breaking News LIVE, December 12, 2021: Hello and Welcome to the Daily Live Blog of ABP Live! We bring you the latest breaking news and updates from the day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter handle was “very briefly compromised”, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) informed on Sunday. The account was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging site.“The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored,” PMO India wrote. As the account was restored, the malicious tweets were also deleted. PM Modi has more than 73.4 million followers on the micro-blogging site. After PM Modi’s account was compromised, #Hacked was seen trending on Twitter India. Screenshots shared on Twitter by several users show that tweets were put out from PM Modi's account claiming “India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender”. “India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country,” read the now-deleted tweet. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to address the event on ‘Depositors First: Guaranteed Time-bound Deposit Insurance Payment up to Rs 5 Lakh’ on Sunday at noon in Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi. An official statement by the Prime Minister's Office informed that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, MoS Finance, and RBI Governor will also be present on the occasion. In another important development, the CBI on Saturday said it recorded statements of 7 Mumbai police personnel in Rs 100-crore extortion case.These police personnel were deployed for the security of Anil Deshmukh when he was the Home Minister of Maharashtra. The case also involves former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh who had accused Anil Deshmukh of asking dismissed assistant inspector Sachin Vaze to collect Rs 100 crore from hotels and bars in Mumbai every month.

12/12/2021 18:55:02

Kerala Reports First Case Of Omicron

First case of Omicron reported in Kochi, Kerala. The concerned person had returned from UK to Kochi on December 6. He had tested  Covid positive on December 8: Kerala Health Minister Veena George

12/12/2021 15:53:33

Nagpur reports its first case of Omicron

Nagpur reports its first case of Omicron in a 40-year-old man, Municipal Commissioner Radhakrishnan B informed, as reported by ANI.

12/12/2021 15:48:31

BJP MLA Digvijay Chaubey, expelled BSP MLA Vinay Shanker Tiwari, former MP Kushal Tiwari join Samajwadi Party

12/12/2021 15:34:48

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid tribute to Lt Colonel Harjinder Singh

12/12/2021 15:04:39

No alliance with TMC for Goa polls: AAP

 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said it will not have an alliance with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) for the forthcoming Goa Assembly elections.

The AAP is determined to provide a fresh alternative to Goa with good candidates and form an honest and corruption- free government, the party's Goa desk in-charge Atishi said.

The Assembly polls in the coastal state are due early next year.

I say with full responsibility that there will be no alliance with TMC. So, there is no question of any talks with them. We are determined to give Goa a fresh alternative with good candidates and form a honest corruption free government, Atishi tweeted.

She was responding to a tweet by a West Bengal-based writer, who quoted a media report saying the AAP is looking to forge an alliance with the TMC in Goa and that the Mamata Banerjee-led party is yet to decide on the proposal, but the two sides have held a round of discussion on the issue.

The AAP has decided to contest the Goa Assembly elections on its own.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led party contested the 2017 Goa Assembly polls, but did not win a single seat.

The TMC, which recently announced that it would contest all the 40 seats in the Goa Assembly, has tied-up with the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, the oldest regional outfit in the coastal state.

In the 2017 Goa Assembly polls, the Congress had emerged as the single largest party by winning 17 seats, but failed to form government.

Later, the BJP forged an alliance with some regional outfits and independents to form government in the state.

12/12/2021 15:00:07

Uttarakhand CM alleges 'party was celebrating' when CDS Rawat was being cremated

12/12/2021 13:52:53

Third case of Omicron detected in Karnataka

Karnataka Health Minister Dr Sudhakar K informed that a third case of Omicron was detected in the state. "A 34-year-old returnee from South Africa has tested positive. He is isolated and being treated in a government hospital. 5 primary and 15 secondary contacts have been traced and their samples were sent for testing," he said, as reported by ANI.

12/12/2021 13:02:23

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot receives Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi at Jaipur airport

12/12/2021 11:56:02

Karnataka Home Minister visits Command Hospital in Bengaluru, enquires about health of IAF Group Capt Varun Singh

12/12/2021 11:54:55

Mortal remains of Lance Naik B Sai Teja, Naik Jitendra Kumar, Naik Gursewak Singh reach their homes

12/12/2021 10:58:01

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates 'Wall of Fame -1971 Indo-Pak war'

12/12/2021 10:30:38

‘Swarnim Vijay Parv' To Be Celebrated With Simplicity In View Of Gen Rawat's Death, Says Rajnath

12/12/2021 09:01:05

No signs of any other impacted accounts: Twitter Spox after hacking of PM Modi's account

In a response to the hacking incident, a Twitter spokesperson said: “We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM’s Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity. Our probe revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time”, news agency ANI reported.

12/12/2021 08:31:35

Terrorist Killed After Encounter Breaks Out In Jammu & Kashmir's Awantipora

(PTI) An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Baragam area of Awantipora in the south Kashmir district after specific inputs about the presence of terrorists there, a police official said.

He said as the forces were conducting searches in the area, terrorists fired upon them.

The forces retaliated, leading to the encounter, the official said.

The exchange of fire was going on and further details were awaited, he said.

12/12/2021 08:30:29

Two children who arrived from Nigeria test COVID positive