Congress is launching a 'Kisan Yatra' from Punjab against the recent farm laws. It will begin from Punjab's Sangrur this week and will end in Delhi covering various districts of Punjab and Haryana.

The party has planned massive protests against these laws from September 24 to November 14. Former Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi has been given a detailed program to finalise his presence.

The Union ministry of road transport and highways has issued a notification introducing new motor vehicle rules which will come into effect from October 1.

From October 1, the maintenance of vital documents related to vehicles including driving license and e-challan will be done through the Information Technology Portal.

In a shocking incident, a 22-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur on Tuesday. The victim was a second-year B.Com student and was on her way back home from college when she was gang-raped. This comes amid the nationwide outrage over the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman from Hathras.

The incident took place in Gaisari village of Balrampur. Two people have been arrested in the case.

The Babri demolition case has lost much its steam after the Supreme Court, on November 9, 2019, allowed construction of Ram temple at the disputed site where the mosque once stood in Ayodhya, settling the land dispute.

Majority of the accused leaders in the demolition case have already pleaded innocence and blamed the then Congress government for falsely implicating them in the case due to political reasons.

The Congress on Wednesday is expected to discuss the seat sharing formula with its allies for the upcoming Assembly elections in Bihar, and the party has called its leaders from Bihar to Delhi.

Sources said Congress' Bihar in-charge Shakti Singh Gohil has called the party's Bihar unit president Madan Mohan Jha and legislative party leader Sadanand Singh to Delhi.

Gold prices today climbed to Rs 53,350 from Rs 52,740 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 60,700 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on Microsoft customers, according to new data from company.

Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its customers in the last two years, with 52% of incidents between July 2019 and June 2020 related to Russian hackers -- whose targets have ranged from elections to the Olympics, according to a report published Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump has defended his response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling it a China's fault adding that he had received praise from governors for doing a phenomenal job.

During the first presidential debate, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has criticized Trump's response for the coronavirus pandemic, saying the President has no plan and he played down the crisis.

Shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) advanced 1 per cent ato Rs 2,268 on the BSE in the early morning trade on Wednesday after General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, said it will invest Rs 3,675 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) for 0.84 per cent equity stake.

The stock of RIL was trading higher for the fourth straight day and has gained 4 per cent during the period. It hit a record high of Rs 2,368.80 on September 16, 2020.

With over 80,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Wednesday (September 30) crossed the 62 lakh-mark, while the death toll has topped the 97,000-mark as well.

At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 62,25,764 cases, which include 9,40,441 active cases; 51,87,826 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 97,497 deaths.

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