Chidambaram said farm bills do not contain a clause that final price a farmer will get from private purchaser should not be less than MSP; bills undermine only regulated market available to farmers without creating thousands of alternative markets, he adds

Earlier this week, the Delhi government had allowed gyms and yoga institutes to reopen after being closed for over five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Once these bills will become laws, farmers can take their produce anywhere -- inter-state or intra-state -- beyond APMCs; states can't levy any fee or cess on farmers; and farmers and buyers can reach at an agreement before procuring harvest

Farm bills 2020: PM Modi said that the government is committed to help farmers get the right prices through Minimum Support Price amid massive protests over the three bills that were passed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday

IIT Madras was working for the last nine years on a fiber optic biosensor platform for for tuberculosis diagnosis. This technology is now being modified to determine antigen in the saliva for COVID-19 infection

New parliament building: The Indian Constitution is likely to be displayed for public viewing in the central foyer that has been renamed Constitution Hall. There will be a library near the central foyer

These bills seek to provide barrier-free trade for farmers' produce outside notified farm mandis, and empower farmers to enter into farming agreements with private players prior to production for sale of agri-produce

Including Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, a total of eight AAP MLAs have tested COVID-19 positive

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that currently around 60,000 tests for detection of COVID-19 are being conducted in Delhi daily, which means that 3,000 tests are conducted per day per million population in the city

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia had developed a mild fever last night after which he conducted a COVID-19 test on Monday

Meanwhile, Delhi's coronavirus cases have climbed to 2.18 lakh with 4,235 infections on Sunday. The national capital registered 29 deaths in the last 24 hours which pushed the death toll to 4,744

Delhi recorded its biggest single-day jump of 4,321 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the city's tally to over 2.14 lakh, authorities said; fourth day in a row that over 4,000 fresh cases were recorded in Delhi

Delhi Metro services resume: Delhi Metro started today with limited operations on the Yellow Line connecting Samaypur Badli to HUDA City Centre and Rapid Metro for limited hours

The national capital has reported coronavirus cases in excess of 2,000 for four consecutive days since September 1. On Friday, the daily cases count stood at 2,914

Addressing an online media briefing, Kejriwal asserted that the number of cases is rising as the AAP government has doubled testing in the city

Calling it an attempt to \"undermine federalism\", Mamata said it was a travesty and an abrogation of the fundamental basis on which the states gave up 70 per cent of their taxing powers to usher the GST regime

The two options of borrowing presented by the Ministry of Finance, which primarily require the states to borrow and then meet repayment liabilities will put an extremely \"onerous burden\" on states, Kejriwal said

A proposal for holding JEE and NEET exams in Delhi was put forth in the last meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), which was attended by the L-G and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal

More than 180,000 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic since the start of the outbreak in the US, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University

Coronavirus cases in India: Those aged 60 years or above account for almost half of the COVID-19 cases in India, while those falling in the 0-17 and 18-25 account for just 1 per cent of deaths