Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the use of GPS-based (Global Positioning System) toll collection will ensure India becomes “toll plaza free” in the next two years. He also said this would help the exchequer earn Rs 1.34 trillion in the next five years.

The central government has finalised GPS-based toll collection to ensure seamless movement of vehicles across the country.

The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that India continues to be in regular touch with authorities in China to resolve the issue of several ships with Indian crew stranded in Chinese waters.

The government continues to be in regular touch with the Chinese authorities to seek a resolution of these issues at the earliest and also to ensure that the humanitarian needs of the crew are taken care of, MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said.

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath on Thursday (December 17) gave his approval to the design, name and logo of the international airport to be constructed in Noida’s Jewar, an official statement informed.

It will be named Noida International Greenfield Airport while a picture of ‘stork’ – the state bird – will used in its logo. The airport will be designed on the lines of other major airports like those in London, Moscow and Milan.

BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi has slammed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for tearing copies of farm laws at the one-day session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly and said he is a "new chameleon".

Addressing a press conference here, Member of Parliament from New Delhi Lekhi said that the farm laws were notified in the Delhi Gazette on November 23.

Months after dissent from senior Congress leaders, party's interim president Sonia Gandhi will meet many of the party's state and central leaders, including the dissenters, news agency ANI reported.

Through the meeting, Congress' top leadership has begun taking steps to redress grievances and other pending issues of the party while chalking out a strategy on key issues.

With an eye on the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come up with its 'Special-7' to chalk out a strategy.

The BJP in West Bengal is deploying seven central leaders for the upcoming assembly poll. The leaders are--Sanjeev Balyan, Gajendra Shekhawat, Arjun Munda, Mansukh Mandaviya, Keshav Maurya, Pradhan Singh Patel and Narrotam Mishra.

Gold price today fell to Rs 52,750 from Rs 52,310 per 10 gm, while silver price was trending at Rs 65,600 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

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

The central government on Wednesday approved a subsidy of Rs 3,500 crore to sugar mills for the export of around six million tonnes (MT) in the ongoing 2020-21 marketing season that started in October.

It also cleared pending export subsidy of around Rs 5,360 crore, which will be passed on directly into the bank accounts of farmers through an escrow account in a week’s time.

Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was increased by Rs 50 per cylinder, the second hike in rate this month following firming of international prices. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) price was raised by a steep 6.3 per cent. Non-subsidised LPG price was increased to Rs 694 per 14.2-kg cylinder from Rs 644 earlier.

This is the second increase in rate this month. On December 1, price was hiked by a similar Rs 50 per cylinder.

COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), was well tolerated in all dose groups with no serious or adverse events, the initial reports of phase 1 clinical trial showed.

The vaccine-induced robust binding and neutralising antibody responses which were comparable to those observed in the convalescent serum collected from patients who had recovered from COVID-19, according to the findings which have appeared on medRxiv, a preprint server showed, according to a PTI report.

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