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New Delhi, Dec 21 (UNI) India and Vietnam on Monday inked seven agreements for cooperation in areas, including defence, petrochemicals and nuclear energy and launched a joint vision for peace and prosperity.

New Delhi, Dec 20 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural address at the India International Science Festival (IISF) 2020 on December 22 at 1630 hrs via video conferencing. Union Minister for Science and Technology, Health and Family Welfare and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan will also be present on the occasion, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement here on Sunday.

New Delhi, Dec 20 (UNI) The Arunachal Pradesh government is procuring another 1 lakh tri-color Khadi face masks for its school children. As the state government prepares to re-open schools for class VIII students from January 4, 2021, it has placed a repeat purchase order for 1 lakh cotton masks. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) will deliver the masks by December 27.

New Delhi, Dec 21 (UNI) The National Capital on Monday woke up to a misty wintry morning with shallow fog /haze ,while minimum temperature settled at 5.5 degrees C (Safdarjung Centre), which was three points below the season's average, the Indian Meteorological Department said.

New Delhi, Dec 21 (UNI) Continuing with the downward trend in daily spike of COVID cases of less than 30,000 for over a week, India registered 24,337 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry update said on Monday.

New Delhi, Dec 21 (UNI) Farmers' organisations protesting against the Centre's three new farm laws started a day-long 'relay' hunger strike on Monday near the borders of the National Capital to pressurise the Centre to take back the laws which are seen by them as 'anti-farmer'.

New Delhi, Dec 18(UNI) The Supreme Court on Friday issued contempt notice to comic artist Rachita Taneja over her caricatures of the judiciary in tweets and asked her to file a reply within six weeks.

New Delhi, Dec 18 (UNI) Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said that talks are on with the farmer organisations regarding their demands and soon a solution will be chalked out. The Farmers Producer Organisation (FPO) representatives from MP, Rajasthan, Maharashtra , Gujarat and Haryana had shared their experiences with the Minister on Thursday and said that the farmers have benefitted from the open market system under the new farm laws and there was relief after getting the payments within three days.

New Delhi, Dec 18 (UNI) A day after the Centre asked the West Bengal Government to immediately relieve the three IPS officers who were called for central deputation, for joining them to the assigned posting at the earliest, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday condemned the Union Government's 'blatant interference' in the Bengal administration.

New Delhi, Dec 18 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Friday granted relief to five Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, who had approached the Court alleging witch-hunt by the West Bengal Police. A three-judge Bench of Justices SK Kaul, Hrishikesh Roy and Dinesh Maheshwari, ruled that that "no coercive action" should be taken against Arjun Singh, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Pawan Singh, Sourav Singh and Mukul Roy's till the next date of hearing.