The government on Tuesday appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara as chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, for three years, effective Wednesday.

Khara, one of the bank's four managing directors, replaces Rajnish Kumar, who is stepping down after being at the helm for three years.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over India's border standoff with China, saying that if Congress been in power, it would have thrown out China from the country in less than 15 minutes.

The former Congress president while addressing a public gathering at Anaj Mandi here late this evening, as part of his 'Kheti Bachao Yatra', said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a coward.

The tragic demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput took everyone including family, Hindi film fraternity members and his fans, followers from across the globe, by shock.

However, there were several questions that were raised soon after the news of the actor's death spread, suspecting foul play. Subsequently, an investigation began with Mumbai police leading the probe.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that the agricultural laws were long-waiting reforms. This comes as protests continue over the laws in different parts of the country.

During an interaction with farmer leaders and agricultural experts in Chennai on farmer issues and recently enacted agriculture Laws, Sitharaman said that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops will be continued.

A vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by year-end, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, without elaborating.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for solidarity and political commitment by all leaders to ensure equal distribution of vaccines when they become available.

The anger in people's minds has stayed since Sushant Singh Rajput's death on June 14, 2020. Millions of people have come together on social media pages to demand justice for the late actor. At every step of the death case from Mumbai Police to CBI, people have been sharing their opinions on social media pages. Now as per latest reports in Hindustan Times, about 80,000 fake accounts have been created across all social media platforms to demoralise Mumbai Police and Maharashtra government.

Gold prices today fell to Rs 53,350 from Rs 53,790 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.

An expert panel at the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has asked Dr Reddy's Laboratories to submit a revised protocol for conducting both phase 2 and phase 3 human clinical trials for the Russian vaccine against COVID-19, Sputnik V, in India, sources said Monday.

The Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company had applied to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) late last week, seeking permission to conduct phase-3 human clinical trials of the Russian vaccine.

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an updated guidance on Monday said Covid-19 can spread through airborne transmission, a month after it took down a similar warning.

It said some people could get infected by exposure to the novel coronavirus in small droplets and particles, or aerosols, that can linger in the air for minutes to hours. (https://bit.ly/3ndJxIi) Aerosols lingering in the air could be a major source of Covid-19 transmission, a group of US scientists warned in an unrelated open letter published in medical journal Science on Monday.

US President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday night after spending four days at a military hospital where he was treated for coronavirus.

Trump, 77, looked healthy. Showing his fitness, Trump in an unusual decision climbed up the South Portico stairs, instead of the elevators, to go to his residence. He waived at reporters.

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