Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reprimanded the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs for not attending the Parliament session. Speaking at the BJP's Parliamentary Party meeting at the Ambedkar International Centre, which is a km away from the Parliament, he sought to remind the MPs about their responsibilities and asked them to be present in the Parliament when in business.
There was widespread outrage over the unfortunate incident in the Mon district of Nagaland when commandos of the Army’s Para Special Forces opened fire on a pickup truck carrying coal miners killing six civilians on Saturday. Soon after the incident, a mob surrounded the soldiers leading to more firing in which seven villagers were killed. Nagaland Police has registered an FIR against the 21 Para Special Forces unit, while the Army has set up a Court of Inquiry headed by a Major General.
As the country records over 20 cases of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron in just three days, the Uttar Pradesh government has issued guidelines for all districts of the state regarding Omicron variant.
The air quality in the national capital was in the lower end of the 'very poor' category with the AQI clocking 314 on Tuesday morning with mainly clear sky and shallow fog.
The Opposition parties are likely to continue their protest in the Parliament against the suspension of the 12 MPs. The MPs were suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session for unruly behaviour in the previous session. Barring passing the Farm Laws Repeal Bill and a few others, the Parliament has failed to transact any business in the ongoing session due to continuous uproar by the Opposition over a host of issues. On Tuesday, the government will try to pass Bills that have already been tabled in the Lok Sabha. The 'High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021' introduced last week by Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is likely to be passed in the Lower House after a discussion. Earlier on Monday, the Lok Sabha passed the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill 2021, which amends the 1998 law to provide for a Council to coordinate activities among the institutes and also ensure the development of pharmaceutical education and research standards. Union Home Minister Amit Shah also brief the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on the incident of firing in Nagaland's Mon district that left over a dozen civilians dead. 
India reported 6,822 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, along with 220 deaths due to the infection, the Union Health Ministry informed on Tuesday. The country saw a total of 10,004 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 3,40,79,612.
Days after the Parliament repealed the three contentious farm laws, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) will be holding a crucial meeting on Tuesday at Delhi's Singhu border to discuss whether to end the over-an-year- old agitation, among other issues. Reiterating their demands from before the government announced to repeal the laws, the SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farm unions, has been demanding legal backing for, among others, Minimum Support Price (MSP), withdrawal of cases against the farmers' families since last year and compensation to the farmers' families that died in the last one year during agitation. The SKM said that although the government has repealed the laws and asked for a five-member team for holding talks, there has been no formal assurance from the government on the pending issues yet. It said that the farmers' struggle for their still-pending demands will continue as the outfit has not received any reply from the government on the pending demands. It may be recalled that the government had reached out to the farmers last month asking them to suggest five names for the committee. The government had repealed the three farm laws on November 29.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
