Breaking News LIVE: Kerala CM Rules Out Complete Covid Lockdown In State
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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has ruled out a complete lockdown in the state stating that it will create a huge crisis for the economy and livelihoods, as per CMO.
AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh will visit the Ram Lalla shrine before starting the Tiranga Yatra' in Ayodhya on September 14, the party said as it planned to name 100 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
Sabhajit Singh, state president of the AAP, said the list of 100 candidates for next year's assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh will be released within the next 15 days and the party will contest on all 403 assembly seats of and not enter into an alliance with any outfit. (PTI)
Mumbai on Friday reported as many as 422 fresh COVID cases, 303 recoveries, and 3 deaths.
Active cases: 3,532
Total recoveries: 7,23,458
Death toll: 15,987
Supreme Court puts interim stay on Kerala government's decision to hold Class 11 exam physically from September 6th, amid rising cases of COVID-19 in the state. Next hearing on September 13th, news agency ANI reported.
Supreme Court said that the situation in Kerala is alarming because of continuing rise in COVID-19 cases and children of tender age can't be exposed to risk as around 35,000 cases are being reported daily from the state.
Delhi's Tiz Hazari Court lists for September 28, the matter of domestic violence involving Bollywood singer and actor 'Yo Yo Honey Singh', ANI reported.
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel distributes financial assistance to the kin of journalists who died amid COVID pandemic.
"Mediapersons faced several challenges during COVID. They fulfilled all their duties. Journalism during COVID will be a shining example for coming generations," he said.
"I'm delighted to address Eastern Economic Forum and thank President Putin for this honour. In Indian history and civilisation, 'sangam' has a special meaning. It means confluence or coming together of rivers/people/ideas. In my view Vladivostok is truly a 'sangam' of Eurasia and Pacific," PM Narendra Modi said, as quoted by ANI.
"I applaud President Putin's vision for development of Russian Far East. India will be a reliable partner for Russia in realising this vision. In 2019, when I had visited Vladivostok to attend the forum, I had announced India's commitment to enact Far East Policy," he added.
"India and Russia are partners in space exploration through the Gaganyaan program. India and Russia will also be partners in the opening of the northern sea route for international trade and commerce: PM Narendra Modi at the plenary session of Eastern Economic Forum (EEF)," he further stated.
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government that could be announced soon, news agency Reuters reported sources in the Islamist group as saying on Friday.
"All the top leaders have arrived in Kabul, where preparations are in final stages to announce the new government," one Taliban official told Reuters.
"No prior permission was sought by Afghan refugees, asylum seekers camping outside UNHCR office," submits Delhi Police before Delhi HC. Court adjourns matter for next week, directs police to ensure that COVID norms are followed and also directs that numbers of protestors be reduced.
An ISIS-inspired terrorist stabbed 6 people at an Auckland supermarket today before police who had him under surveillance shot him dead, New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern says: AFP
New Zealand supermarket stabbing a 'terrorist' attack, said PM Jacinda Ardern.
Supreme Court refuses to grant interim bail to Congress leader and former MP Sajjan Kumar, convicted to life imprisonment in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, after noting that his medical condition is stable and improving, news agency ANI reported.
Srinagar (PTI): Restrictions continued to be in force across the Kashmir valley for the second day on Friday as a precautionary measure following the death of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, officials said.
Restrictions on the movement and assembly of people remained in force across the valley, they added.
The officials said the curbs were intensified in downtown (old city) and some uptown parts of the city here in view of the Friday congregational prayers.
While the roads leading to Geelani's residence in the Hyderpora locality here remained sealed, barricades were put up in other areas to stop the movement of people, they added.
Security forces have been deployed in strength in the city and elsewhere to maintain law and order, the officials said.
Mobile phone services except for the postpaid connections of BSNL continued to remain snapped, while mobile internet services also remained barred to avoid rumour-mongering.
Internet services are working on fixed lines, but the network speed has been throttled.
The officials said a review of the situation will be done after the congregational prayers and a decision will be taken on whether to lift the restrictions or not.
Police on Thursday said the situation across the valley was peaceful and no untoward incident was reported from anywhere.
A police spokesperson said some vested interests tried to spread baseless rumours about a "forcible burial of SAS Geelani by police".
"Such baseless reports, which are a part of a false propaganda to incite violence, are totally refuted by the police. As a matter of fact, the police instead facilitated in bringing the body from his (Geelani's) house to the graveyard as there were apprehensions of miscreants taking an undue advantage of the situation. The relatives of the deceased participated in the burial," he said.
The police spokesperson said IGP, Kashmir Vijay Kumar appreciated the cooperation of the public in maintaining the peaceful situation throughout Kashmir, "which defeated the ill designs of the inimical elements who are hell-bent on disturbing the otherwise peaceful atmosphere in the valley".
Geelani (91), avowedly a pro-Pakistan supporter who spearheaded the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir for over three decades, died at his residence here on Wednesday night.
The separatist leader was suffering from a kidney disease for over two decades, besides other age-related issues, including dementia.
Karnataka | Anti Narcotics Wing of Central Crime Branch (CCB) has seized Rs 2 cr worth of drugs including Ecstacy, LSD, Hash, Cannabis..procured through Darknet using Bitcoins, two persons arrested, Sandeep Patil, Joint CP, Crime revealed.
Hyderabad: Actor Rakul Preet Singh arrives at the office of Enforcement Directorate (ED), in connection with a drugs case
Sensex jumps 187.78 pts to lifetime peak of 58,040.32 in opening session; Nifty surges 66.20 pts to record 17,300.35.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the International Climate Summit 2021 today, to focus on hydrogen power.
Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel in response to Chattisgarh BJP leader D Purandeswari's 'spit' remark in Raipur yesterday.
WATCH: Taliban spokesperson gives statement on Kashmir.
Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs will meet today. The developments in Afghanistan are likely to be discussed in the meeting. Questions may also be raised on India's policy regarding Taliban. Officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and Home Affairs will brief the committee. Members will be briefed about the plan on dealing with international terrorism.
BJP MP PP Choudhary is the chairman of the committee. The meeting will be held at 3 pm in the Parliament House Complex.
Light to moderate intensity rain likely to occur over isolated places of South-East Delhi, East-Delhi, Karnal, Kaithal, Fatehabad, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad, Shamli, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar during next two hours: India Meteorological Department (IMD)
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Breaking News LIVE, September 3, 2021: Slamming the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera has said all the governments till now worked to build the country except the current NDA government which is "hell-bent on selling everything".
Khera said this while criticising the government over its recently-announced asset monetisation plan, saying the BJP was selling what the Congress and other governments created in 70 years.
"All the governments which came to power in the country till now, including Congress and other parties, worked for the country, to build it. Except the NDA government, which is in power since last seven and a half years, who are bent on selling whatever that the nation built," Khera said in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee "to intervene and ensure justice to Congress workers who are victims of violence and atrocities committed by the ruling party's workers".
Chowdhury in his letter wrote, "I do like to flag your kind attention to the violence and atrocities committed by the ruling party's workers in a broad daylight today when houses of Congress party workers vandalised and looted much to the concerned of us."
As for the situation in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the US mission in Afghanistan over the past two decades "was not simply a failure, but a catastrophe".
The problems of terrorism, drug trafficking and low living standards were not resolved but even exacerbated, Zakharova said during her weekly briefing, news agency IANS reported.
"The final chord of the international coalition's military presence was the death of civilians as a result of an American drone strike," she said, adding that Russia strongly condemns such "indiscriminate use of force".
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