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Former Union minister and noted businessman Kamal Morarka died here on Friday evening after a brief illness. He was 74.

The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) will visit Kolkata next week to take stock of the law and order situation in West Bengal.

The nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at 10:30 am today, setting off India on the path towards overcoming the pandemic that has upended lives, ravaged the economy and unleashed unprecedented suffering over the last 12 months. One of the world's biggest vaccination programmes aimed at inoculating 3 crore health and other frontline workers first, it will use shots manufactured in India - one developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, the other by Bharat Biotech with the country's top clinical research body.

A dozen doctors in Assam have volunteered to take the first vaccine shots today at the Gauhati Medical College to dispel rumours about the Covid vaccine and encourage their fraternity as the country gears up for the the world's biggest inoculation drive against the deadly coronavirus.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday said if the BJP manages to come to power in West Bengal, the state will drown in river Ganga, as all central government projects are flawed and have been unsuccessful.

Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali on Friday said the country has maintained good relations with India and China and ensured its soil is not misused for "illegitimate interests" of any neighbouring country.

The biggest contribution of over Rs one crore for the construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya came from Surendra Bahadur Singh, former MLA of Tezgaon in Baiswara district of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh.

It was required of any sensible government to understand the sentiments of farmers agitating against the Centre's new laws, but it didn't happen and so there will be consequences of the same, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Friday.

India is a frontrunner in starting vaccinating people against COVID-19 and this "has given us great hope", Nepal Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said today.

Noting that the country is effectively controlling the spread of bird flu, the Central government has instructed the state government to allow the selling of poultry and poultry products sourced from avian influenza-free areas/states.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that the state government is formulating a plan to open a film city in the state for which land spanning 50 to 100 acres has been finalised.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday for his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing farmers' protest at Delhi's borders and said even the leaders of his own party do not take him seriously and laugh at his remarks.

An insider vs outsider debate has taken shape in Bengal ahead of assembly elections. A BJP MP has even gone as far as to declare a Chief Ministerial candidate, something the party has not done in other states where it fights elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's name.

The bail hearing of comedian Munawar Faruqui, who was arrested over alleged "indecent" remarks made against Hindu deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a show in Indore earlier this month, was adjourned by the Madhya Pradesh High Court today after the police failed to produce the case diary.

Earth Sciences Minister Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the doppler weather radars in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh today that will improve forecasts in the hilly states and also for Char Dham and Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimages.