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According to sources, many other resignations are also pouring in at lower tiers of the party, mostly in districts, ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal on December 19.

Physical gold in India was sold at a discount for the first time in six weeks as a rebound in local prices to a onemonth peak squeezed demand, while purchases slowed in other Asian hubs ahead of the yearend holidays.

Among states, the highest increase in the retail inflation for agricultural labourers and rural workers was experienced in Tamil Nadu and Tripura (18 points each), mainly due to a rise in the prices of pulses, meat goat, vegetables and fruits.

In both the cases, the victims felt humiliated after operators of online loan apps sent messages to their contacts for being defaulters.

Food Minister Piyush Goyal said the government's decision to provide Rs 3,500 crore subsidy for exports of 60 lakh tonnes of sugar in the current marketing year will help in liquidating surplus sugar stocks.

The Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar in a note to top officials of his department has also directed that a committee be constituted to examine such contents in the social science and language textbooks from class 1 to 10.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the Indo-Pacific concept is not tomorrow's forecast but yesterday's reality and denying it is tantamount to refuting globalisation.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had recently said Pakistan cannot be forgiven for the atrocities it unleashed during the 1971 liberation war.

The apex court said selective divulging of information, including the disclosure of material which may eventually form a crucial part of the evidentiary record at the criminal trial, can be used to derail the administration of criminal justice.

The accused, who was seeking bail tried to match the police by saying this case cannot be like a Ramayana "where we are going to wait 14 years to see if we can finally come out."

The decline in tax collection has been subdued amid the pandemic. Further, the extension of deadline for filing returns also impacted the collections.

Akhilesh Yadav said that the ruling party had nothing to do with problems of the common man as the rates of LPG cylinders increased twice over last 13 days.

The union on Thursday urged Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao to immediately drop the charges and provide proper quarantine facilities with subsistence, either in hostels or at guest houses free of charge.

He said he would embark on a foot-march with nearly one thousand farmers from Morena, the Lok Sabha constituency of the Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also said that India, while having a market-driven economy, also has a vibrant heritage of peaceful protests and vigorous debate and "we watch that with interest and we respect it".

It would be just a temporary precaution.