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• Dec 02, 2021 02:20 PM IST

  NCP’s working committee meeting to be held on Dec 7 in Delhi

  A meeting of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP’s) working committee chaired by party president Sharad Pawar is scheduled to be held on December 7 in Delhi, ANI reported. This comes after Pawar met Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Mumbai on Wednesday.

• Dec 02, 2021 01:17 PM IST

  PM Modi chairs a meeting on cyclone situation

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a meeting on the cyclone-related situation in the country.

• Dec 02, 2021 12:57 PM IST

  Omicron: Tamil Nadu issues new SOPs; unvaccinated people to be restricted

  The Tamil Nadu government implemented new standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the wake of the spread of the new variant of coronavirus, named Omicron. The new SOPs came into effect from December 1. Read More

• Dec 02, 2021 12:08 PM IST

  Naidu appeals for talks to end Rajya Sabha stalemate, fails to understand suspension row

  Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday urged the Opposition and government to talk out the ongoing crisis over the suspension of the 12 MPs and let the upper House of Parliament to do its mandated job. Read More

• Dec 02, 2021 11:33 AM IST

  ‘Elders have WFH and children have to go to school?’ CJI pulls up Delhi govt

  The Supreme Court on Thursday rapped the Delhi government for reopening schools and subjecting children to pollution-related health hazards, while the government has allowed work from home for its employees. Read More

• Dec 02, 2021 11:14 AM IST

  Oppn leaders wear black bands in protest over MPs suspension, continue stir

  Members of Opposition parties continued their protest near a statue of Mahatma Gandhi on Parliament premises on Thursday demanding revocation of suspension of MPs from the remainder of the session. Read More

• Dec 02, 2021 10:23 AM IST

  ‘UPA will be a body without…’: Kapil Sibal replies to Mamata’s ‘what is UPA’

  Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday said without the Congress, the UPA will be a body without a soul, a day after West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said there was no United Progressive Alliance left in the country. It is time to show opposition unity, Kapil Sibal tweeted on Thursday morning, without referring to Mamata’s comment. Read More

• Dec 02, 2021 09:18 AM IST

  India’s daily Covid-19 tally rises to 9,765

  India’s Covid-19 tally rises by 9,765, while the number of active rises to 99,763. 

• Dec 02, 2021 09:14 AM IST

  Health minister to chair with meeting on airport screening and surveillance

  Union Health minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya will chair a meeting at 10 am today with States on airport screening and surveillance with Airport Public Health Officials (APHOs) and Port Health Officials (PHOs), according to ANI.

• Dec 02, 2021 08:27 AM IST

  Delhi, adjoining areas to see light rainfall in next 2 hours

  The Indian meteorological Department  (IMD) predicts light intensity rain over parts of Delhi; Farukhnagar, Haryana; Debai, Narora, Sahaswan, Atrauli, Aligarh in UP; Bharatpur and Mahandipur Balaji in Rajasthan during next 2 hours.

• Dec 02, 2021 07:41 AM IST

  ‘If that happens to kill somebody…’: UK expert’s warning over Omicron variant

  Amid the global concern over the Omicron variant, UK’s top epidemiologist has warned people against assuming that the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) evolve into a milder infection. Neil Ferguson, the head of the disease outbreak analysis and modelling group at Imperial College London, told British parliamentarians that the threat posed by the Omicron variant will not be clear until the end of December, The Guardian reported.

• Dec 02, 2021 07:11 AM IST

  ‘Didn’t pull the trigger’: Alec Baldwin on fatal shooting on set

  American actor Alec Baldwin said that he ‘didn’t pull the trigger’ on the firearm in the fatal shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. During an interview with abc News, Baldwin said he has ‘no idea’ how a live bullet got onto the set of his film ‘Rust’.

• Dec 02, 2021 06:45 AM IST

  Cyclone Jawad: IMD issues red alert for heavy rainfall in some Odisha districts

  Odisha government on Wednesday asked collectors to prepare for evacuation from 13 districts amid the forecast of a cyclonic storm, Jawad, reaching the coast on December 4. Read More

• Dec 02, 2021 06:08 AM IST

  Samples of 6 int’l fliers who tested Covid positive sent for genome sequencing

  Six international passengers tested positive for the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) out of 3,476 passengers from the so-called at risk countries tested on arrival at airports across the country on December 1, the first day of implementation of the Centre’s revised guidelines for Covid testing, according to a government statement. The samples of all six have been sent for whole genome sequencing to confirm the strain.