Breaking News LIVE, December 8:
2:05 PM| Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar arrives at the residence of Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to meet him.
Delhi: Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar arrives at the residence of Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to meet him. pic.twitter.com/kbwyCMCXdM
— ANI (@ANI) December 8, 2020
1:15 PM| The first phase of the three-tier local body polls is underway in five districts of Kerala with the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF, Congress-headed UDF and BJP-NDA locking horns in majority of wards.
10:55 AM| AAP sources have alleged Arvind Kejriwal has been put under house arrest-like conditions since he returned after visiting the protesting farmers at the Singhu border on Monday. All meetings of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have been cancelled.
Important :
BJP’s Delhi Police has put Hon’ble CM Shri @ArvindKejriwal under house arrest ever since he visited farmers at Singhu Border yesterday
No one has been permitted to leave or enter his residence#आज_भारत_बंद_है#BJPHouseArrestsKejriwal
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) December 8, 2020
10:30 AM| Sensex opened 141.83 points higher at lifetime intra-day high of 45,568.80 and Nifty rose to 38.80 points to hit record high of 13,394.55 on Tuesday.
9:40 AM| The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has said people over the age of 80 will be given first preference in what the agency has described as the “biggest immunisation campaign” in its history. Vaccinations will begin early Tuesday morning in what prime minister Boris Johnson says is a “huge step forward” in the fight against the coronavirus, of which the country has more than 1.7 million cases with more than 61,000 people succumbing to the infection.
9:15 AM| The deployment of security forces has been increased at the Singhu border between Haryana and Delhi amid the Bharat bandh call given by farmer unions. The farmers have been protesting here for 13 days now.
The protesting farmers have called for a nationwide shutdown on Tuesday against the new farm laws. The shutdown or bandh is likely to have an impact in parts of north India and some non-BJP ruled states elsewhere, even as the farmer leaders said that no one should be forced to join the shutdown.
The first phase of Kerala local body polls began today. The elections are being held in 6,910 wards in 395 local bodies in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha and Idukki districts. According to the state election commission there are 88,26,873 voters in the first phase, including 41,58,395 males, 46,68,267 females and 61 transgender people.
India recorded 32,981 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of active coronavirus cases in the country to 3,96,729, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. With 39,109 new recoveries, the number of overall recovered COVID-19 patients stands at 91,39,901, pushing the recovery rate to 94.45 percent.
Bharat Biotech, the Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm that has been developing coronavirus vaccine Covaxin, on Monday said that it had applied to the central drug regulator seeking emergency use authorisation.
