Day: December 22, 2020

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Monday assured ‘payment’ to homemakers for their work at home, computer with high-speed internet to all households and transformation of farmers to agri-entrepreneurs if his party MNM was voted to power in the 2021 Tamilnadu assembly elections.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia said that his party is ready to contest on all 70 seats in the next Assembly elections in Uttarakhand.

The Vatican on Monday declared that it is ‘morally acceptable’ for Roman Catholics to receive Covid-19 vaccines based on research that used fetal tissue from abortions.

Many Indian students who planned to travel back home to be with their friends and family in India over the Christmas and New Year period are among those caught up in Monday’s suspension of all flights to and from the UK as the world reacts to a new rapid-spreading strain of coronavirus detected in parts of  England.

A 43-year-old man from Hyderabad was fired upon and injured in Chicago in the United States, his family members said on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was earlier scheduled to visit India in late 2020, may visit the country during the first six months of next year, Russia’s ambassador to India, Nikolay Kudashev said on Monday.

US President Donald Trump on Monday presented the prestigious Legion of Merit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership in elevating strategic partnership of the two countries and emergence of India as a global power.

The crucial Executive and the General Council meeting of the ruling AIADMK in Tamilnadu, the highest policy level decision taking body of the party would be held on 9 January 2021, even as the party would launch the campaign for the Assembly polls on 27 December.

Farmer leaders on Monday said they are always ready for dialogue as long as the government is offering a ‘concrete solution’, but claimed that there is nothing new in the Centre’s latest letter to them seeking a date for the next round of talks, while they will be meeting today to discuss further action.

Amid reports of spread of distinct phylognetic cluster of SARs-CoV2 in the United Kingdom, one of the 14 passengers who arrived from London via Delhi, has tested positive for corona at the Chennai airport today.