Amid the ongoing agitation in Karnataka,&nbsp;Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa&nbsp;on Monday said that he had tried to speak to the leaders of various farmers' organisations but in vain. He said being a farmer's son he is on the side of farmers. Stating that the amendments&nbsp;to the land and Agricultural laws have been have been brought after long discussions," the CM urged the farmers to wait for six months or a year. He said his government has not closed door on&nbsp;Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act and farmers can sell their produce where ever they want to. He claimed in six months or a year the farmers will realise how the amendments&nbsp;will help them.

Amid the ongoing agitation in Karnataka, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Monday said that he had tried to speak to the leaders of various farmers' organisations but in vain. He said being a farmer's son he is on the side of farmers. Stating that the amendments to the land and Agricultural laws have been have been brought after long discussions," the CM urged the farmers to wait for six months or a year. He said his government has not closed door on Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act and farmers can sell their produce where ever they want to. He claimed in six months or a year the farmers will realise how the amendments will help them.

Close to 50,000 new Covid-19 infections and 517 new deaths have been recorded in India in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry data released on Thursday morning. India's coronavirus case tally has now surged past 80 lakh and number of deaths have risen to 1,20,527. Total active cases in the country are just above 6 lakh currently, while more than 73 lakh people have so far recovered from the virus. India's Covid recovery rate stands at over 90%.

The National Investigation Agency continued raids on NGOs in Srinagar and Delhi in the J&amp;K terror funding case for the second day on Thursday. Six non-profits and trust and nine places, including the property of former Delhi Minority Commission chief Zafarul-Islam Khan have been raided by the NIA. On Wednesday, the NIA&nbsp;had raided 10 locations in Srinagar and one in Bengaluru. Some NGOs are suspected of raising funds in India and abroad for carrying out separatist activity in Jammu and Kashmir.

President Ram Nath Kovind has signed an ordinance or executive order for the formation of a committee to look into the air quality management in Delhi and its adjoining areas, NDTV has reported. On Monday, the Centre told the Supreme Court that it would create a permanent body through legislation to deal with the annual air pollution problem in Delhi and its surrounding areas. Accepting the Centre's request, the court had then suspended the one-man committee of retired judge Justice MB Lokur to oversee steps to tackle stubble burning.

Delhi's air quality slipped in the "severe" category on Thursday&nbsp;morning after staying "very poor" for several days. The Air Quality Index breached the alarming 400 mark at several places in the Capital, including Anand Vihar, Alipur and Wazirpur, according to the data from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee. The annual winter pollution in Delhi and its adjoining areas has been a matter of great concern this year, with experts saying it could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases.

A Pakistan opposition MP has exposed how Imran Khan govt and Pakistan Army were worried about at Indian attack after the capture of IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman. PML(N) leader Ayaz Sadiq told the national assembly that Army chief Bajwa was trembling and sweating at a meet on Abhinandan. He added that foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told the meeting that India would attack by 9pm that night if Pakistan did not release Abhinandan. &ldquo;General Bajwa came into the room &amp; his Legs were shaking. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said for God&rsquo;s sake let Abhinandan go, India&rsquo;s about to attack Pakistan at 9 pm.&rdquo;- Ayaz Sadiq said in Pakistan Parliament. Wing Commander Abhinandan&nbsp;shot a Pakistan F-16 during a dog fight in February last year before his jet crashed on the Pakistani side. He was later released by the Pakistan Army.&nbsp;

An ABVP leader and oncologist, who was a few months ago accused of harassing an elderly neighbour in Chennai, has been appointed to the AIIMS, Madurai, board. Dr Subbiah Shanmugam, who is an oncologist and also the head of the&nbsp;ABVP in Tamil Nadu, was accused by his neighbour of urinating at her doorstep and dumping used masks there over a parking dispute. She had also submitted CCTV footage to the police to support her allegations. Dr Shanmugam has denied the allegations. Reacting to the health ministry notification on his appointment, DMK leader Kanimozhi tweeted that this an endorsement of indecent behaviour by the BJP.

The topper of the JEE (Mains) exam in Assam has been arrested for allegedly using a proxy to write the engineering entrance test, the Guwahati Police said. The accused, Neel Nakshatra Das, had scored 99.8% in the exam. His father and three staff of a testing centre have also been arrested. According&nbsp;to the police, the accused went inside the testing centre on the day of the exam just to fill his name and roll number on the answer sheet and the test was written by a proxy outside. Police said that they are probing if the case is a part of a larger scam.

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.

Amid the ongoing agitation in Karnataka,&nbsp;Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa&nbsp;on Monday said that he had tried to speak to the leaders of various farmers' organisations but in vain

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