Nadda begins 2-day visit to Bengal today; will unveil party offices in 9 districts

BJP president JP Nadda is set to begin his two-day visit to West Bengal today (Wednesday). During his visit, Nadda will take stock of party activities and participate in the ongoing mass outreach campaign, with an eye on 2021 assembly polls. The BJP president will attend various programmes aimed at strengthening the party organisation ahead of the Assembly elections early next year. Nadda, soon after arriving in Kolkata, will inaugurate an election management room at BJP's office in Hastings. He would also virtually unveil party offices in nine districts of the state, party sources said. 

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After BJP workers' demand for his removal, Biplab Deb to ask people if he should remain CM

Two days after a group of ruling BJP supporters shouted slogans demanding the removal of the chief minister in front of the party's central observer Vinod Sonkar, Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday said that he is ready to quit if people want him to.

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Delhi: COVID patients with same name leads to confusion, alive man wrongly 'declared dead'

A "mistake" on the part of the medical staff at a leading COVID-19 dedicated hospital here led to a living patient at the facility being wrongly "declared dead," his family member said on Tuesday.

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Day ahead of Centre's meet, Amit Shah calls farmers for talks at 7 pm

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday called farmers for talks, a day ahead of the government's sixth round of negotiations to end the deadlock over the farm laws.

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Shiv Sena never supported farm laws: Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said the Uddhav Thackeray-led party never supported the three farm laws in Lok Sabha as alleged by the BJP. Taking a swipe at the Centre over farmers' protests, Raut suggested that Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Union Home Minister Amit Shah can hold talks with cultivators who are observing the Bharat Bandh against farm laws.

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Snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir valley

The famous ski-resort of Gulmarg and other higher reaches of Kashmir received snowfall for the second day on Tuesday, while the plains were lashed by rains, the MET Office. It said there would be a decrease in precipitation in the union territory from Wednesday.

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Bharat Bandh: Delhi markets mostly open; more farmers arrive amid tight security at borders

Most of the markets in the national capital remained open even as farmer unions called for a nationwide strike today, against the Centre's agri laws. A senior police official said patrolling was being carried out in the city's market areas, including Chandni Chowk and Sadar Bazar, to maintain law and order. Praveen Khandelwal, general secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders, claimed transport services and markets functioned normally in the national capital and other parts of the country, and that the 'Bharat Bandh' had no impact on such activities. 

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