YouTuber Rashid Siddiquee has opposed the defamation notice issued against him by actor Akshay Kumar in connection with Sushant Singh Rajput death case and refused to pay Rs 500 crore damages sought by the star, saying there was nothing defamatory in his videos.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasised on affordability and accessibility of vaccines to cure Covid-19 as a crucial step to end the crisis.

At a meeting of the finance ministers of G-20, she said further efforts should be made by members of the grouping to end the Covid-19 crisis.

Mohammed Siraj, who is in the Indian cricket team for the Test series against Australia, suffered a tragedy on Friday after his father, Mohammed Ghouse, died due to a lung ailment. Mohammed Siraj’s father was 53. Mohammed Siraj only came to know the news of his father’s death when he had finished the practice session at Sydney’s Blacktown Oval. However, what is even sadder is that Mohammed Siraj will not be able to make it to India for the last rites as he is in Australia and the coronavirus restrictions are in place. The Indian squad, currently in the middle of a 14-day quarantine period, has been training in isolation on the outskirts of the city of Sydney after arriving to the country on November 13.

In a bid to bring under control the COVID-19 pandemic in the city, a curfew has been imposed in Ahmedabad from 9 pm on November 20 to 6 am on November 23, after which a night curfew will remain in force.

"Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation declared night curfew from 9 pm to 6 am every day from November 21 in order to control the spread of Covid-19," an order said on Thursday.

A suspect was at large after multiple people were wounded in an 'active shooter incident' at a suburban shopping mall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Friday (November 20).

The shooting took place outside a Macy's department store at the Mayfield Mall in Wauwatosa, a Milwaukee suburb of 47,000 people, according to local authorities.

While hearing a petition on Thursday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that marriage between first cousins is illegal.

This comes after a 21-year-old man moved the high court against state of Punjab seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366A (procuration of minor girl) of the IPC at police station Khanna City-2 in Ludhiana district on August 18.

National Capital Delhi is witnessing a fresh wave of Covid-19 pandemic. Delhi recorded the second highest death toll in the past 24 hours on Saturday.

The national capital recorded 6,608 fresh COVID-19 cases in a single day, taking the infection tally to over 5.17 lakh.

According to authorities, 118 people have succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the death count due to coronavirus to 8,159.

US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday appointed an Indian-American, Mala Adiga, as the policy director of his wife Jill Biden, who will be the first lady.

Adiga has served as a senior advisor to Jill and a senior policy advisor on the Biden-Kamala Harris campaign. Previously, Adiga was director for Higher Education and Military Families at the Biden Foundation.

Delhi recorded 7,546 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the infection tally in the national capital to over 5.1 lakh, even as 98 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 8,041, authorities said.

These fresh cases came out of the 62,437 tests conducted the previous day, including 22,067 RT-PCR tests, the highest till date.

Vaccine maker Serum Institute of India's CEO Adar Poonawalla on Thursday said the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine should be available for healthcare workers and elderly people by around February 2021 and by April for the general public, and will be priced at a maximum of Rs 1,000 for two necessary doses for the public, depending on the final trial results and regulatory approvals.

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