A day after the three farm bills were signed into law by President Ram Nath Kovind, farmers groups and political parties plan to intensify their protests. Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh will stage a sit-in protest against the contentious laws today at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh, on his birth anniversary. He will be joined by all Congress MPs and MLAs. Shiromani Akali Dal, which quit the NDA over the issue, said President Kovind&rsquo;s assent to the three bills marked a &ldquo;dark day for democracy and farmers.&rdquo;

A day after the three farm bills were signed into law by President Ram Nath Kovind, farmers groups and political parties plan to intensify their protests. Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh will stage a sit-in protest against the contentious laws today at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh, on his birth anniversary. He will be joined by all Congress MPs and MLAs. Shiromani Akali Dal, which quit the NDA over the issue, said President Kovind’s assent to the three bills marked a “dark day for democracy and farmers.”

A Parliamentary panel led by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi on Wednesday pulled up twitter over the depiction of Leh as part of China while the micro-blogging website responded saying that the geo-tagging issue was swiftly resolved once it was brought to its notice. Lekhi, who heard out the twitter officials after they were summoned by the panel, said the response by the social media giant was &lsquo;inadequate&rsquo;. Twitter India officials were questioned by the parliamentary Joint Committee on Data protection after outrage over the social media platform's location settings. The Delhi MP said twitter's&nbsp;act amounts to criminal offence attracting imprisonment of seven years. The internet platform said in response that it was committed to openness, transparency and will 'remain in regular touch with the Indian government to share timely updates'.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi has been suspended on grounds of 'misconduct' after&nbsp;President Ram Nath Kovind's orders.&nbsp;
The education ministry had asked the President to allow an inquiry against the chancellor&nbsp;Yogesh Tyagi after a dispute over appointments to the university last week. Professor PC Joshi will take over as vice chancellor for now.
The controversy erupted last week when Tyagi removed Joshi as pro-VC and appointed Geeta Bhatt, the director of the Non-Collegiate Women's Education Board of the university, in his place. After this the vice chancellor was accused of "misconduct" and "dereliction of duty" by the ministry.

PTI,&nbsp;Bhopal: After Bihar, the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh has promised free coronavirus vaccine to every resident of the state in its manifesto for the November 3 Assembly byelections.
The party came out with a separate `Sankalp Patra' or manifesto for each of the 28 poll-bound constituencies on Wednesday.
"Mostly, local issues have been included in each manifesto," said MP BJP spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal.
But free COVID-19 vaccine and restart of the schemes closed by the previous Congress government are common promises, he said.
"As far as free vaccination is concerned, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has already announced it," he said.
The BJP's promise of free vaccine in Bihar had drawn flak from opposition parties.
The Congress scoffed at the promise of free vaccine in Madhya Pradesh.
"The BJP should vaccinate people before the polling on November 3. Where is the vaccine for COVID-19? The BJP is selling dreams to people and trying to mislead them," said state Congress spokesperson Bhupendra Gupta.
Chouhan's announcement of direct benefit transfer (DBT) of Rs 4,000 to the beneficiaries of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi also finds mention in the BJP's list of promises.
Twenty-two Congress MLAs, mostly loyalists of Jyotiraditya Scindia, resigned in March which led to the collapse of the Congress government in MP. Three legislators resigned and joined the BJP later, while three other seats fell vacant due to the death of incumbent legislators.&nbsp;

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla&nbsp;has said&nbsp;Covishield, the Oxford University vaccine candidate that has shown promise during trials may be ready by December this year. However, he&nbsp;told News18 that 'a lot is subject to data from the UK and also a lot depends on the approvals coming through from the Drugs Controller General Of India'. He said that his company&nbsp;intends to apply for emergency authorization if the data from the UK trials show promise. The Modi&nbsp;government, has in the past indicated that emergency authorization of a vaccine is likely if the need arises. The phase-III trials of Oxford University-AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine candidate are currently underway in the UK.

The national capital reported a record daily spike of&nbsp;5,673 Covid-19 cases as the figure&nbsp;crossed the 5,000 mark for the first time on Wednesday. Delhi's overall tally is now over 3.7 lakhs&nbsp;and fatalities have reached 6,396 after 40 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to officials. Delhi has been witnessing a surge in coronavirus&nbsp;cases again. The capital had reported 4,853 new cases on Tuesday which was also a record daily spike. This is the 5th day in a row that Delhi reported over 4,000 cases.&nbsp;

Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar took a swipe at Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh&nbsp;Koshyaris&nbsp;coffee table book which has a stark omission.&nbsp;Pawar thanked the Governor for the book, &lsquo;Janrajyapal: Bhagat Singh&nbsp;Koshyari', published by Raj Bhavan as&nbsp;Koshyari&nbsp;completed his first year in office last month.&nbsp;In a Marathi letter penned last week to the Governor, laced with oodles of sarcasm, Pawar &lsquo;thanked'&nbsp;Koshyari&nbsp;for the coffee table book but said that the title of &lsquo;Janrajyapal' was not a constitutional position.&nbsp;After a perusal of the book, the NCP leader also found that it had omitted pictures of&nbsp;&lsquo;a particular swearing-in ceremony&rsquo;&nbsp;held at Raj Bhavan last year.&nbsp;

A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP lawmaker Ramesh Bidhuri in 2016.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja acquitted Kejriwal of all the offences charged against him.
The BJP MP had filed a defamation case against Kejriwal four years ago following latter's interview to news channel, where the Chief Minister had made the allegedly defamatory statement that serious criminal cases were pending against Bidhuri.
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The government clarified in a statement on Wednesday that the Aarogya Setu app&nbsp;was developed in 'the most transparent manner' by the National Informatics Centre in public-private partnership mode in record time to help contain the spread of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus. The government reaction came&nbsp;the Central Information Commission pulled up the government over an RTI query in which the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the National Informatics Centre said they do not have any information about the 'creation' of the mobile application.

The BJP&nbsp;government&nbsp;in&nbsp;Goa&nbsp;has&nbsp;asked director-producer&nbsp;Karan Johar's Dharma Productions to tender an unconditional apology for littering a village in the state during one of their recent film shoots.&nbsp;
According to a report in PTI, the&nbsp;Goa&nbsp;government said&nbsp;if the company fails to issue an apology a&nbsp;fine would be imposed on them.
Reportedly governments issued the directive after the&nbsp;residents of Nerul village in North Goa uploaded videos showing the waste, dumped in their village by the crew of an upcoming Deepika Padukone&nbsp;film.
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After many cabinet ministers in the BJP government tested positive for Covid-19, Union minister Smriti Irani has also joined the list. Announcing it on twitter, Irani said it is rare for her to search for words while making an announcement. She requested those who came in contact with her to get themselves tested at the earliest.&nbsp; The Union Minister had been campaigning&nbsp;for the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in poll bound&nbsp;Bihar. Earlier, Home Minister Amit Shah, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and many others from BJP&nbsp;had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

PTI,&nbsp;New Delhi:&nbsp;Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the Nainital High Court order for CBI probe into the allegations of corruption levelled against him by a journalist.
The high court verdict came on two separate petitions filed by two journalists &ndash;- Umesh Sharma and Shiv Prasad Semwal -- seeking quashing of FIR lodged against them in July this year under various provisions of the IPC.
While quashing the FIR, the high court ordered CBI probe into the allegations levelled against the Chief Minister Rawat. &nbsp; Sharma accused Rawat, who was then Jharkhand in-charge of the BJP, of alleged money transfers to accounts of his relatives in 2016 to support an appointment of a person in that state to head the Gau Seva Ayog.
Rawat moved the top court by filing an appeal against the high court judgement through lawyer Divyam Agarwal, who has not yet divulged the grounds of the challenge.

A new video of firing and police baton-charge on devotees in Munger surfaced on Wednesday, giving the opposition fresh ammunition to attack the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar. In the video, the devotees are seen having an altercation with the police personnel. Suddenly sounds of firing are heard and the devotees and those carrying the Goddess Durga idol lie on the road around the idol to save their lives. As the firing sound stops, a group of policemen arrive at the spot and thrash the devotees using batons. Some of the baton wielders are seen in civilian clothes. The Congress compared the firing to Jallianwala Bagh massacre&nbsp;while Opposition's chief ministerial candidate has called for a High Court monitored probe into the firing.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Wednesday that the suspension of scheduled international passenger flights has been extended till November 30 amid the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. The Indian aviation regulator said in a circular that the international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the competent authority on a case-to-case basis.&nbsp;The scheduled international passenger services have been suspended in India since March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic. But special international flights have been operating under the Vande Bharat Mission since May and under the bilateral&nbsp;&lsquo;air bubble&rsquo;&nbsp;arrangements with selected countries since July.

Dismissing the anticipatory bail plea of senior IAS officer M Sivasankar in the gold smuggling case, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday said there are indications that the bureaucrat &ldquo;was overseeing the management of finances of&nbsp;Swapna Suresh,&rdquo; a key accused in the smuggling.
Soon after the court rejected his anticipatory bail plea, Sivasankar was taken into custody by ED officials from an ayurvedic centre in the state capital, where he has been undergoing treatment.
Sivasankar had been the principal secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, but was removed from the post in July this year following the expose of his links to the gang that had smuggled in gold using diplomatic cargo to the UAE Consulate.

PTI,&nbsp;Bettiah (Bihar): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he talks about other countries in his speeches but not about the problems facing India such as unemployment.
Gandhi, who arrived in West Champaran district for his second round of campaigning in the ongoing state elections, also attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over unemployment and the issue of migration.
Addressing his rally at Valmiki Nagar, the former Congress president said he was pained to see that Prime Minister Modis effigy was burnt in Punjab on the occasion of Dusshera, and added that it reflected the "anger" of youths and farmers.
"Youths and farmers of Punjab and Bihar and youths of Uttar Pradesh are angry that our PM keeps making speeches with Bihar Chief Minister and talks about other countries, but not the problems confronting our country such as unemployment," he said.
He said the prime minister and the Bihar chief minister used to raise the issue of unemployment earlier but no longer now.
"Now, the PM does not say in his speeches that he would give two crore jobs. Because the people of Bihar have realised that he had lied.
"I can guarantee that if the PM comes today and promises two crore jobs to youths, perhaps the crowd would shoo him off, telling him that he had lied," Gandhi said.
The Congress knows how to run a country, how to stand with farmers and give employment, but "we don't know how to lie", he said.
Criticising the Centre over the three recently passed farm laws, he said its "pilot project" was implemented in Bihar in 2006 when the mandi system was abolished in the state.
"What Nitish Kumar did in Bihar in 2006, Narendra Modi is doing in Punjab, Haryana and across the country," Gandhi said.
The Congress has fielded Pravesh Kumar Mishra for the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha bye-election, while Rajesh Singh has been nominated for the assembly poll from there.
The by-poll to Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency has been necessitated due to death of JD(U) MP Baidyanath Mahto.
The Lok Sabha by-poll will be held on November 7 and the results will be announced on November 10 alongside the results of Bihar assembly elections.
Later in the day, Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a rally at Kusheswar Asthan in Darbhanga.

Amid the border standoff with China along the LAC in eastern Ladakh, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday while addressing the Army Commander&rsquo;s Conference, committed to facilitate the Army in their forward movement on road to reforms and help them in achieving advantages in all areas. &lsquo;We will leave no stone unturned to strengthen the Army&lsquo; Singh stressed. He also lauded the Force for neutralising threats of terrorism, insurgency and any external attack. Meanwhile, news agency ANI quoting sources reported that the Defence minister while talking about threats at India&rsquo;s western border, called Pakistan a 'habitual offender' without naming its neighbor.

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday conducted raids at multiple locations in Srinagar in connection with unaccounted funding. The raids were conducted at the office of Greater Kashmir newspaper, the residence of human rights activist Khurram Parvaiz and the offices of some NGOs. These NGOs, the NIA said, were receiving money from undisclosed donors which was then being used to fund terror activities. Several incriminating documents and electronic devices have been seized., the agency said. People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti called the raids a vicious crack down on dissent.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday raised the issue of Ram Mandir while campaigning in Bihar. The PM congratulated the people of Bihar on the start of the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. &ldquo;I congratulate the people of mother Sita&rsquo;s land for the establishment of Ram Temple,&rdquo; he said. Taking a swipe at the opposition, the PM said that those who used to ask about the date of Ram Mandir are now forced to applaud it. He added that the government&rsquo;s motto was to fulfil all promises made in its manifesto.

The Bihar opposition on Wednesday trained guns on chief minister Nitish Kumar over the Munger police firing incident. Calling it brutal and a reflection of the state government&rsquo;s total inability to handle law and order, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav asked the Prime Minister to dismiss the Nitish-led NDA govt immediately. LJP leader Chirag also targeted the CM over the incident during Durga idol immersion that left one dead. Chirag compared Nitish to General Dyer who order the Jalianwala Bagh massacre.&nbsp;

The Reserve Bank has asked all lending institutions to ensure that the waiver of interest on interest for loans up to ₹2 crore for the six-month moratorium period is implemented by November 5. The lending institutions have been asked to complete the exercise of crediting the amount in the accounts of borrowers by November 5. Housing loans, education loans, credit card dues, auto loans, MSME loans, consumer durable loans and consumption loans are covered under the scheme.

Punjab CM will stage a sit-in protest against the new farm laws today at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh, on his birth anniversary

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