Morning Digest: Stopped from going to Delhi, farmers block Jaipur freeway; pandemic, poverty spur child marriages in M.P., and more

Hundreds of farmers from Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and a number of different States, together with Maharashtra and Gujarat, staged a sit-in on the the Delhi-Jaipur Highway blocking the carriageway in direction of the nationwide Capital after they have been stopped by the Haryana Police on the border with Rajasthan on December 13.

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown have proved to be new drivers of child marriages in rural Madhya Pradesh with a number of stories of such ceremonies from completely different elements of the State through the ongoing marriage season.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar met Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday amid the farmers’ protests in opposition to the Centre’s three agriculture legal guidelines, officers stated. Mr. Tomar was accompanied by Som Parkash.

The Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) on December 13 demanded that the federal government not permit a “nexus” of multinational firms and massive Indian enterprise homes comparable to Reliance Industries to dominate the retail business in the nation as it will lead to the exploitation of farmers, kirana retailer homeowners, wholesalers and even shoppers.

A 22-year-old Puucho lady whose alleged husband, a Muslim man, was arrested by the Moradabad police final week beneath the brand new illegal conversion ordinance, was admitted to a hospital after complaining of stomach ache, however was discharged on Sunday, an official stated.

The complete loss incurred by Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing (India) after 1000’s of staff ransacked its iPhone manufacturing manufacturing unit at Narasapura industrial space, close to right here, on Saturday is estimated at ₹437.70 crore.

Every week after concluding the month-long ‘Vetrivel Yatra’, State BJP president L. Murugan insists that the religious-political roadshow was successful. In an interview, he disagrees that actor Rajinikanth’s proposed political entry will have an effect on the nationwide social gathering.

IRCTC despatched out practically 2 crore emails between December 8 and December 12 to its clients itemizing 13 choices taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help the Sikh group, amidst farmers’ protest in opposition to the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines.

Connectivity initiatives together with the resurrection of the 12-km Chilahati-Haldibari rail hyperlink after 55 years can be highlighted when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina maintain a digital bilateral summit on December 17, officers in Dhaka and Delhi stated.

With a COVID-19 vaccine now seemingly simply not far away in India, vaccine literacy, and not publicity blitz about emergence of 1 or more vaccines, is crucial to construct public belief in the vaccine, say well being consultants. They add that this must be supplemented with aggressive testing and tracing methods till public belief on a vaccine is sufficiently constructed to maintain a gentle test on the an infection numbers and to check the efficacy of vaccines.

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A U.S. court docket has rejected the bail plea of Tahawwur Rana, key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror assault lodged in a Los Angeles jail, who awaits extradition to India.

Hundreds of Nigerian college students are lacking after gunmen attacked a secondary college in the nation’s northwestern Katsina State, police have confirmed.

Max Verstappen received the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP from pole place for Red Bull on Sunday. Mercedes accomplished the rostrum locations in a processional race with Valtteri Bottas second and seven-time World champion Lewis Hamilton third.