Breaking News LIVE, November 13:
5:35 PM| People coming to Lucknow from other states, especially Delhi and its adjoining areas, for Diwali will have to compulsorily undergo COVID-19 test at bus stands, railway stations and the airport, according to Healthwire.
4:45 PM| Bihar’s CM Nitish Kumar on his way to resign. Before Nitish Kumar is sworn-in as the chief minister again, he has to tender his resignation to the Governor. The BJP has already declared that the next government will be formed under the leadership of Nitish Kumar. This will be the seventh time when Nitish will take oath as the CM of Bihar (2000, 2005, 2010, twice in 2015, and 2017).
4:15 PM| A joint meeting of the NDA legislature party will be held on Sunday where Nitish Kumar will be elected as its leader. This was decided at a meeting of the leaders of the four NDA constituents in Bihar–the JD(U), BJP, HAM and Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) at the residence of Chief Minister Kumar on Friday. “The meeting will start at 12:30 pm on November 15,” chief minister-elect Nitish Kumar told reporters. Despite the BJP emerging as the largest party in the ruling alliance with 74 seats, 31 more than the JD(U), the top leadership of the saffron party, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has emphatically endorsed Kumar as the next chief minister.
4:10 PM| Supreme Court modifies Telangana High Court order and grants partial relief to Telangana Fire Works Dealers Association (TFWDA) allowing the sale and bursting of green crackers for 2 hours during Diwali.
2:00 PM| Comedian Kunal Kamra will face criminal contempt of court proceedings for his tweets on the Supreme Court in the wake of the interim bail that the top court granted to journalist Arnab Goswami on Wednesday.
1:15 PM| Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the World Health Organisation is establishing the WHO Global Centre on Traditional Medicine in India. Modi was speaking after inaugurating the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar (Gujarat) and National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur (Rajasthan), via video conferencing.
“World Health Organisation is establishing the WHO Global Centre on Traditional Medicine in India, to strengthen the research on traditional medicines,” the Prime Minister said.
12:30 PM| Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that pollution level increases in the national capital during October-November. He said coronavirus cases in the capital city are rising due to the pollution.
11:45 AM| The billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has questioned the antigen Covid tests. The entrepreneur and businessman went through the COVID test four times on Friday.
Reacting to the difference in reports, Musk wrote on Twitter, “Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.”
Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020
11:15 AM| Actor Arjun Rampal arrives at Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) NCB had conducted a raid at his premises on November 9. (ANI)
10:30 AM| India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 87.28 lakh on Friday with a single-day increase of 44,879 cases, while the recoveries surged to 81,15,580, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.97%, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The death count reached 1,28,668 after 547 more fatalities were reported in the country in 24 hours and the total coronavirus cases mounted to 87,28,795, the data updated at 8 am showed.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 12,31,01,739 samples have been tested so far with 11,39,230 samples being tested on Thursday.
Nitish Kumar, set to be Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time but with a diminished status in the ruling alliance after finishing at number 3, rejected the “arrogant” label in an interaction with the media.
He also denied that his months of silence during the coronavirus lockdown contributed to public disenchantment against him and his Janata Dal-United (JDU).
“Please, don’t call me arrogant,” Nitish Kumar said, hands folded, responding to the often-repeated charge.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate two Ayurveda institutes in Rajasthan and Gujarat on Ayurveda Day today.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale struck the Andaman Islands at 0845 hours today, says National Center for Seismology.
