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Amid incidences of political violence and killings in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi tomorrow.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday blamed the central government's policies for the spiralling prices of onion and said he would speak to the Centre about the stock limit imposed on the commodity traders.

An FIR filed against Sushant Singh Rajput's sisters by actor Rhea Chakraborty is "vitiated and bad in law", the CBI said today, opposing it in the Bombay High Court.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who has missed no opportunity of slamming the Congress since joining the BJP, today criticised party chief Sonia Gandhi over her silence on Kamal Nath's "item" remark that stirred a political row in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the bypolls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that just like the people of the state can save themselves from COVID-19 with a mask, similarly with a single vote they can save Bihar from becoming "bimar" (sick).

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi has been suspended on President Ram Nath Kovind's orders, the union education ministry said on Wednesday, amid a major row over appointments that spawned an ugly power tussle.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said that the state's coffers are not Aurangzeb's treasure that will be emptied if spent on development.

Two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists were killed on Wednesday in an encounter that started on Tuesday in Aribagh Machama area of Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir.

Ahead of the November 3 bypolls to 28 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, a Samajwadi Party candidate from a seat in Morena district has joined the BJP.

Three women died after being run over by an unidentified vehicle near a temple on a state highway passing through Jhagadia taluka of Gujarat's Bharuch district on Wednesday morning, police said.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to facilitate the Army in their forward movement on road to reforms and help them in achieving advantages in all areas, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday.

A Tripura court has sent a woman under judicial custody for allegedly attacking her estranged boyfriend with acid. The man has been shifted to a hospital in state capital Agartala under critical condition.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said that his thought process is clear, he has chosen the path of public service and not of politics. Mr Scindia asserted, he is not interested in any post and only wants to work for development.

A 66-year-old coronavirus patient died today in Mizoram as the northeastern state logged its first death linked to the highly contagious virus, which has affected nearly 80 lakh people in India so far. While the country has reported over 1.2 lakh Covid-linked fatalities, Mizoram - that has reported over 2,600 cases - had not seen any deaths so far.

The Oxford coronavirus vaccine produced by India's Serum Institute could be ready as early as December and the first batch of 100 million doses should be available by the second or third quarter of 2021, Adar Poonawalla, chief of the Pune-based company told NDTV on Wednesday.