Laetst live news: Parliament’s Winter Session was held up for the third day as opposition parties continued protests demanding 12 suspended Rajya Sabha MPs be taken back.
Opposition MPs shouted slogans in Lok Sabha, as their suspended colleagues sit on a dharna (sit-in protest) in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament complex.
The government has “no record” of the deaths of farmers who were protesting the three contentious laws – that have now been canceled–over the last one year, Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar told Parliament in a written reply. The question of compensation doesn’t arise.
India will bolster Covid-19 genome sequencing efforts, hoping early detection of the newly-emerged omicron variant will help avoid a repeat of the delta-fueled wave of infections that brought its health system close to collapse earlier this year.
Public health officials aim to analyse positive tests from airports within 48 hours and a dozen laboratories may be added to the current 28 that are part of the Indian SARs-COV-2 Genomics Consortium, Bloomberg reported, quoting Priya Abraham, director of India’s National Institute of Virology.
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