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Union Minister Pratap Sarangi on Sunday said that all people of the country will be given free COVID vaccine, amidst the demand by opposition parties in the country for it and not only in poll-bound Bihar as announced by the BJP.

AYUSH is at present an alternative medical system but in coming years it would be adopted globally as the mainstream treatment, said Union Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) Shripad Naik on Friday. The Minister was speaking at the inauguration of Madhavbaug and Vedic Delight Ayurvedic treatment centres at Dhavali-Ponda in Goa, an official release of Ministry of AYUSH said.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said there is nothing left in Congress and nobody wants to stay there.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 was reported near Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand on Sunday night, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, in a veiled reference, took a dig at Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after the former Congress MLA Rahul Lodhi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Sunday boarded the flight for the trip to India for the third edition of the two-plus-two ministerial dialogue, that begins in New Delhi. The visit comes a week before the American presidential election scheduled on November 3.

The Rajasthan government will bring a bill against the Centre's farm laws in the state assembly on October 31, a senior Congress leader said on Sunday.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., backed by Asia's richest banker, is exploring a takeover of smaller Indian rival IndusInd Bank Ltd., people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that would create the nation's eighth-largest financial firm by assets.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said there would be anarchy in the country if the BJP remained interested only in toppling governments rather than improving the nation's economy.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar attacked the opposition in Haryana, accusing them of indulging in caste politics against the BJP's development plank in the Baroda bypolls scheduled to be held on November 3.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke to a hairdresser from Tamil Nadu as part of his ''Mann Ki Baat'' programme and lauded his initiative to encourage reading by converting a portion of his salon into a library.

The BJP's ideological mentor RSS has sought a public debate on the Uniform Civil Code, but left it to the government to decide whether it should bring a bill on it. In a virtual meet held by the think-tank India Foundation on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) foundation day on Sunday, its joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is mentioned in the Constitution under the Directive Principles of State Policy, but no time frame has been recommended by the architects of the Constitution to implement the UCC.

Asserting that the accession of Jammu and Kashmir with India was final and complete, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was responsible for the delayed integration of the erstwhile state.

Holding Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar responsible for not developing religious tourism in his 15-year-rule in the state, LJP chief and MP Chirag Paswan on Sunday asserted that he will develop various places associated with sufi saints in the state to improve revenue collections.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday slammed the BJP over its poll promise of free COVID-19 vaccine in Bihar, adding does that party think those from other states hail from Bangladesh or Kazakhstan.