Day: November 29, 2021

Tamilnadu today registered 730 new Covid-19 cases, and the total number of infections has touched 27,26,197.

The Bill to repeal the farm laws was today passed in the Lok Sabha on the first day of the Winter Session, amid sloganeering by Opposition MPs. The Opposition was demanding a discussion on the Bill.

Popular choreographer Shiva Shankar, who worked in many films including ‘Thiruda Thirudi’ (‘Manmadha Raasa) and ‘Baahubali’, breathed his last in Hyderabad on Sunday, due to Covid-19 related complications.

AIADMK joint coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami today said his party will file an appeal against a recent order of the Madras High Court to hand over the palatial Poes Garden bungalow owned by former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to her brother’s children (Deepa and Deepak).

Chief Minister M K Stalin has directed all departments concerned to enforce the POCSO Act strictly in Tamilnadu by filing First Information Reports (FIRs) quickly in cases relating to sexual assault on children and fast-tracking investigation. He also called upon all departments concerned to work in tandem in this regard.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been following the violent protests in Solomon Islands capital Honiara with concern and called for an end to the violence and the protection of hard-won peacebuilding gains, his deputy spokesman, Farhan Haq, said.

The acting Prime Minister (PM) of Afghanistan’s caretaker government Mullah Hassan Akhund has said that Afghanistan wants to have good relations with the international community, including the neighbours and regional countries.

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been identified in a citizen from Italy’s Southern Campania region, who returned to Milan from Mozambique some days ago, Italian news agency ANSA reported Sunday.

With 8,309 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 3,45,80,832 today.