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"I am not afraid of resigning," Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said today after he moved a resolution in the state assembly against the contentious farm laws enacted by the centre recently.

Support is growing within the union government to formally start talks on a trade deal with Taiwan as both democracies see relations with China deteriorate.

Pollution levels dipped slightly in the national capital this morning due to favourable wind speed, though the air quality was still in the "poor" category.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today moved a resolution in the state assembly against the contentious farm laws enacted by the Centre recently.

Navratri 2020 Day 4: Two videos of patients performing Garba dance at COVID-19 facilities in Mumbai have surfaced on social media. In one of the videos, a number of COVID-19 patients with masks on their faces are seen performing Garba along with health workers wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) kits on a Bollywood song in a women's ward. In the clip, some women patients are also seen watching the performance.

Goa Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Babu Kavlekar, accused by the opposition of sending porn clips to a WhatsApp group of social activists, has filed a police complaint alleging that his phone was hacked. The message from his phone allegedly went to the group after midnight on Sunday.

India's COVID-19 tally neared the 76 lakh mark as the country reported less than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a day for the first time since July end, government data shows. A jump of 46,790 fresh cases in the last 24 hours took the country's overall cases to 75,97,063, according to data shared by the Health Ministry this morning. The last time new Covid cases were less than yesterday's 24-hour tally was on July 23, when India recorded 45,720 cases. The government recently said the country has crossed its coronavirus peak as its daily average cases have tapered to 50,000-60,000 against a high of more than 90,000 daily cases logged in mid-September.

India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar hit out at Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari over hiscontroversial exchange with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray last week over the reopening of places of worship in the state.

400 top Durga Puja organisers in Kolkata asked the Calcutta High Court today to review its order declaring puja pandals "no-entry zones" for visitors because of the coronavirus outbreak.

The number of new coronavirus infections reported daily in India dropped below 50,000 nearly after three months, taking India's COVID-19 caseload to 75,97,063, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that India has one of the highest recovery rates--88 per cent--because it was one of the first countries to adopt a flexible lockdown.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., said India must redefine its manufacturing sector to boost growth.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched a fresh attack on Congress leader Kamal Nath after a clarification was issued by him over his ''item'' remark.

After BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda accused the Mamata Banerjee government of "divide and rule" policy during his public address in Siliguri on Monday, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O'Brien issued a public statement on Twitter saying the BJP did everything to "divide and rule" India in over six years of its rule.