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FIVE PATIENTS WERE KILLED AND SIX INJURED IN FIRE AT COVID HOSPITAL IN RAJKOT. THE SUPREME COURT TOOK COGNIZANCE OF THE FIRE INCIDENT AND SOUGHT A REPORT FROM GUJARAT GOVT
THREE PERSONS WERE KILLED AND 10 OTHERS INJURED WHEN A PRIVATE BUS TRAVELLING FROM DELHI TO JAIPUR CAUGHT FIRE AFTER COMING IN CONTACT WITH A HIGH-TENSION POWER LINE
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DELHI OPENS DOORS FOR FARMERS PM on 3-city visit today to review Covid vaccine Modi will visit the Zydus Biotech in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad and Serum Institute in Pune
DILLI CHALO BKU (Ugrahan) activists break police barricades as they arrive at the Dabwali border of Punjab and Haryana border during their Delhi Chalo protest against Centres new farm laws, in Sirsa district.
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers were allowed to enter Delhi today for a planned protest against new farm laws after a morning of clashes with the police at the border with Haryana. Even after the Delhi Police announced that they could enter, escorted by cops, teargassing and water sprays continued, apparently to control crowds. Some farmers were reportedly injured in the action.
Mufti alleges detained again, daughter under house arrest
Mehbooba Mufti
Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has alleged that she has been “illegally detained yet again” and that her daughter Iltija has been “placed under house arrest”. Mufti said she is not being allowed to visit the family of PDP youth wing president Waheed Parra, Turn to P6
Groups of farmers, walking with tractors carrying food and essential supplies, had been trying to enter Delhi from multiple points, defying barricades, many wrapped in barbed wire, and trenches dug up near key roads. Farmers’ organisations said they had been “given safe passage” into Delhi and allowed to protest at a ground in Burari near the capital’s outskirts.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (Rajewal) president Balbir Singh Rajewal said that the farmers were headed to the Burari ground after their demand to hold their protest at the Ramlila Ground was rejected by the Delhi Police. Thanking the authorities for granting permission for the protest, a farmer told ANI, “We’ve crossed about 10 barriers on our way. Turn to P6
A security person and a farmer clash as protestors attempt to cross Singhu Border during Delhi Chalo march, in New Delhi.
STADIUM JAILS REQUEST DENIED Delhi Police’s request to turn nine stadiums in the city into makeshift “jails” to detain protesting farmers was rejected by the city’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.
‘END PROTEST, COME AND TALK’ Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday requested farmers to end their protest against the new central laws, offering talks next week, even as the police continued to fire tear gas and water cannons in a second day of clashes over the march to New Delhi. “The government has always been ready to discuss issues with farmers. We have invited farmers’ organisations for another round of talks on December 3. I appeal to them to leave agitation in view of COVID-19 and winter,” Tomar told news agency ANI.
HC: Kangana’s bungalow razed in
“malice”, she will get damages Mumbai: In a setback to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the Bombay High Court on Friday held that the demolition at the office of Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut was with malafide intent. A division bench of Justices SJ Kathawalla and RI Chagla set aside the BMC notices dated September 7 and 9 issued to Kangana Ranaut and directed that a valuer be appointed to ascertain the damages caused due to the demolition. “The valuer will submit a report to the court after which it will pass an order on compensation to Kangana Ranaut,” the bench said and asked the actress to exercise restraint while
MUM MAYOR TO MEET BMC LEGAL TEAM Mumbai: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Friday said that she will hold a meeting with the legal team of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to assess the Bombay High Court’s order in Kangana Ranaut case. “What we did was according to municipal rules. I haven’t seen the court order, will go through it,” Pednekar told reporters. commenting on other people on social media and otherwise. The court, while holding that the petition filed by Ranaut
against the demolition was maintainable, noted that the demolition was not good in law and malafide. Turn to P6
BJP should end its rhetoric and negative politics, says CM Gehlot Kartikey Dev Singh Jaipur: Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, on Friday, claimed that BJP leaders were engrossed in making Corona a political issue, thereby carrying out negative politics in the state. Gehlot, who has held several one on one video conferences on corona pandemic in state with saffron party leaders including Vasundhara Raje, Satish Poonia and Gulab Chand Kataria, to name a few, termed
Chief minister Ashok Gehlot
that the opposition leaders were making ‘an atmosphere of negative politics in the state’ by claiming that his government will fall in the coming months. “In the era of a global epidemic, where the Ra-
jasthan government is working with opposition and all sections of the society, the statements made by the BJP leaders are going to bring down the level of the state’s politics. In the last days, BJP lead-
ers have made unrestrained statements about the Covid management of the Rajasthan government and the future of the government. The state government has worked with not only all political parties but also social workers, employee organizations, social organizations and religious leaders. But the negative politics being practiced by the opposition party has created an atmosphere of public anger against the opposition,” Gehlot said on Friday. Turn to P6
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a threecity visit on Saturday to “personally review the (coronavirus) vaccine development & manufacturing process”, said Prime Minister’s Office on Friday. He will visit the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad and Serum Institute of India in Pune, PMO said. “As India enters a decisive phase of the fight against COVID-19, PM Modi’s visit to these facilities & discussions with the scientists will help him get a first hand perspective of the preparations, challenges & roadmap in India’s endeavour to vaccinate its citizens,” said PMO in an official statement. Zydus Cadila’s plant is situated at Changodar industrial area near Ahmedabad city.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The drug maker had earlier announced that the phase-I clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, ZyCoV-D, has been completed and it has commenced phase-II clinical trials from August. Modi will then proceed to Pune, where he will visit the Serum Institute of India, which
has partnered with global pharma giant AstraZeneca and the Oxford University for the vaccine, a senior official said. The prime minister’s next stop will be Hyderabad where he is scheduled to visit vaccine maker Bharat Biotech’s facility, an official said. —Agencies