As many as 4,844 foreigners were granted Indian citizenship in the past five years under the Citizenship Act 1955, Union Minister Nityanand Rai told Lok Sabha in a written reply on Tuesday.

The minister informed that 1,773 foreigners were granted Indian citizenship in 2021, 639 in 2020, 987 in 2019, 628 in 2018 and 817 in 2017.

Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 400 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The global case count amounted to 400,244,031, with 5,761,208 deaths worldwide, as of 5:21 p.m. local time (2221 GMT) Tuesday, showed the data.

People would not be made to run from pillar to post to get their hard-earned pension as the Delhi government will be taking the online route for the department's pension disbursement, according to an official statement.

Earlier, this payment could not be made digital due to technical reasons, but the Social Welfare Department held several meetings with the central government, and found its solution. Now there will be no hindrance or delay in pension cases, Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said on Tuesday.

Union Defence Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh took a swipe at Congress stating that the party has been wiped out from the entire country.

The Defence Minister also stated that Congress is only lurking in the mountains.

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) star campaigners for Goa Assembly polls, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, will visit the state on Wednesday, and hold a series of public rallies and door-to-door meetings across various constituencies in North and South Goa.

As per a press release issued by the BJP, Shah's day-long engagements start with the door-to-door campaign at Mayem Assembly Constituency at 3.30 pm followed by a door-to-door campaign at Bicholim Assembly Constituency at 4.25 pm.

Owing to a big rise in the market capitalisation of group companies such as Adani Green Energy and Adani Transmission, the group promoters, the Gautam Adani family, have closed the wealth gap with Mukesh Ambani, the promoter and owner of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).

Ambani continues to top India’s billionaire league table.

Telecom major Bharti Airtel’s net profit dipped 2.8 per cent year on year to Rs 830 crore in the October-December quarter (Q3) of 2021-22. In the same period last year, the company had posted a net profit of Rs 854 crore. Its operational performance was better than Street estimates, but the net profit fell short of expectations, mainly because of higher tax outgo.

The company’s revenue for the quarter grew 12.6 per cent to Rs 29,867 crore on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. The average revenue per user (Arpu) rose 6.5 per cent sequentially and 11.6 per cent YoY to Rs 163 due to an increase in mobile tariffs in late November.

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 397 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.74 million and vaccinations to over 10.07 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 397,053,590 and 5,749,136, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered has increased to 10,071,840,408.

The price of 10 gram of 24-carat gold increased by Rs 50 on Tuesday, with the yellow metal trading at Rs 49,250.

The price of 22-carat gold is selling at Rs 45,200, up Rs 100.

One kg of silver is selling at Rs 61,600, up Rs 700 from yesterday.

Just days ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls, Dev D fame Mahie Gill and Punjabi movie actor Hobby Dhaliwal on Monday joined the BJP here.

Apart from Dev D, Gill has worked in the movie, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster.

Gill said she wanted to do something for girls in Punjab and felt confident that she could do it with the BJP only.

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