A digital countdown clock has been installed at the entrance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party headquarters Anna Arivalayam in Chennai in the run-up to the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.

The clock, which has been set to May 2, 2021, the date on which counting of votes will be held in Tamil Nadu, was seen atop the entrance of the headquarters building.

Setting stage for his party's campaign in the Punjab Assembly elections due next year, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday addressed a Kisan Maha Panchayat in the state's Moga district.

In his address, he hit out the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government, accusing it of not keeping its poll promises and deceiving the people of the state.

The Future Group has moved the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court (HC) against the order passed by a single-member Bench, which directed to stay its Rs 24,713-crore deal with Reliance Industries to sell the firm’s retail and wholesale business.

The Kishore Biyani-led group firm, Future Retail (FRL), has now filed an appeal before the higher Bench of the same HC against the orders passed by a single-member Bench of Justice J R Midha, Future Retail said in a regulatory filing.

In the wake of rising COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, the state government has ordered to close schools for students of classes 9, 10 and 11 from Monday (March 22).

In an order, state Chief Secretary Rajeev Ranjan said, The government of Tamil Nadu hereby order that schools shall be closed for classes 9th, 10th and 11th with effect from March 22 until further orders.

Gold price today fell to Rs 48,390 from Rs 45,280, while silver price was trending at Rs 67,500 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery price varies across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making changes.

In New Delhi, the price of 22-carat gold slipped to Rs 44,390 per 10 gm, while in Chennai it fell to Rs 42,490.

BJP Telangana State president Bandi Sanjay on Sunday accused the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) of misusing its power during the MLC polls conducted at Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad and Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates' constituencies.

All the parties that contested the recent MLC elections had aimed to defeat BJP. The TRS party has misused its authority of being in power. They spent hundreds of crores during the election, Sanjay told media here.

Former US President Donald Trump, who was permanently barred from Twitter after the Capitol riots incident, is set to make a return to social media with his own platform in two to three months, according to his senior advisor Jason Miller.

I do think that we are going to see President (former) Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform, Miller told Fox News.

Promising KG to PG free education, 33 per cent quota in government jobs, free travel in public transport for women, strict enforcement of the new citizenship law, and a Rs three lakh accident cover for farmers, the BJP Sunday unveiled its election manifesto for the West Bengal assembly polls.

In an apparent effort to counter the ruling TMC's Bangla Nijer Meyeke Chai (Bengal wants its own daughter) slogan hailing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the manifesto that promised employment generation and social security, while laying extra emphasis on welfare of women.

Reliance Industries Ltd has sold three-fourth of the gas from coal seams in Madhya Pradesh to an affiliate of the company at a price of just over $6 at current oil prices.

India Gas Solutions Private Limited, a 50: 50 joint venture of RIL and UK's bp, bought 0.62 million standard cubic meters per day out of 0.82 mmscmd gas bid out in an auction last week, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

With 3,779 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours in Mumbai, this is the highest number of cases reported from the Maharashtra capital since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With this, the total number of coronavirus patients in Mumbai rises to 3,62,675. Also, 10 people succumbed to the infection in Mumbai during the last 24 hours, so far, a total of 11,586 deaths have been reported from COVID-19 in Mumbai.

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