Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Mandi in Himachal Pradesh on Monday (today) to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of hydropower projects worth over ₹11,000 crore at around 12 noon. He will also preside over the second groundbreaking ceremony of the Himachal Pradesh Global Investors' meet, the PMO said. 
In view of the rising cases of Covid-19 and its Omicron variant, several states and UTs -- Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh -- have imposed night curfew and revised covid protocol. India’s Omicron tally breached the 500-mark and stood at 535. Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh reported their first Omicron cases — taking the number of affected states and UTs to 17. Madhya Pradesh reported nine cases, all of them foreign travelers. Himachal reported its first case just a day before PM Modi’s scheduled public meeting in Mandi. Maharashtra topped the list with 141 cases, followed by Delhi which has 79 cases so far. According to a Union Health Ministry office memorandum, Multi-disciplinary central teams have been deployed in 10 states which are reporting either an increasing number of Omicron and COVID-19 cases or a slow vaccination pace. Meanwhile, in his Mann ki Baat address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday also said self-awareness and self-discipline are the country's strengths in fighting against the novel variant of the COVID.
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Haryana MLA Aseem Goel on Saturday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his 'Hindu vs Hindutva-vadi' comments and said that the Congress MP himself doesn't know if he is Hindu, Muslim, or Christian.
One terrorist affiliated with proscribed terror outfit Islamic State of Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) has been killed in an encounter between security forces and terrorists in the Srigufwara area of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag.
Mann Ki Baat LIVE UPDATES: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation in the 84th episode of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' on Sunday. This will be the last edition of the year. 
Over the ongoing debate on the anti-conversion bills being introduced in states, senior Congress leader and former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said that if anyone is converting people, he is not using a sword adding that it is the good work and character of individuals which influences others to convert.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...
