Shares of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) rose 4 per cent to Rs 744 on the BSE in early morning trade on Wednesday after the company announced that it will increase the price of its passenger vehicles (PVs) and commercial vehicles (CVs) from January 1, 2021, in order to partially offset the impact of rise in input costs.

M&M said the price hike has been necessitated due to the increase in commodity prices and various other input costs.

To begin the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the 1971 India-Pakistan war, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will light up 'Swarnim Vijay Mashaal' at the National War Memorial (NWM) in Delhi on Wednesday.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, various commemorative events are planned across the nation.

The December 16, 2012 gangrape case had shaken the conscience of the entire nation. The incident involved rape and fatal assault of a young girl in south Delhi's Munirka locality.

A 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern, Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya), was beaten, gang-raped, and tortured in a private bus in which she was travelling with her friend. The nature of the rape was extremely brutal.

With all COVID-19 protocols in place, the counting of votes of Kerala local body elections will start from 8 am on Wednesday. According to the State Election Commission, the counting of votes will take place at 244 centres.

State Election Commissioner V Bhaskaran said the postal votes, including special ballot votes, will be counted first and EVM votes later. Earlier trends will be known once the counting of EVM votes is started. However, the final results are expected by 1 pm.

The farmers' agitation against agriculture laws has entered 21st day and farmers continue to camp on all the borders of Delhi for withdrawal of laws despite the freezing weather. Meanwhile, a petition will be heard in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the problems caused by the farmers' protest.

Three petitions have been filed in the apex court regarding the agitation. A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramaniam will hear the petitions.

Delhi temperature dipped to 4.1 degrees Celsius in the early hours of Tuesday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Due to the icy winds blowing from snow-covered western Himalayas, Delhi witnessed the lowest temperature of the season so far.

The maximum temperature on Tuesday was recorded at 18.5 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung, 5 degrees Celsius below normal and 16.7 degrees Celsius at Palam, 7 degrees below normal, the weather department said.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 72.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.62 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 72,818,538 and 1,620,294, respectively.

Gold price today fell to Rs 52,310 from Rs 52,540 per 10 gm, while silver price was trending at Rs 63,200 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.

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are protesting over the past few weeks at the borders of the national capital. The agriculture bills, which the government says would bring in reforms to Indian agriculture, have resulted in widespread protests among the farmers.

The protests are intensifying with every passing day as thousands of more protesters are joining the agitation each day. The crowd at the Delhi-Haryana border has become so huge that the Haryana police has termed the situation as 'unsustainable', warning that the borders can't take more people.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said photographs of those who have nothing to do directly or indirectly with demands of farmers have been seen during the protest over three farm laws, noting that a photo of a jailed person from Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district was seen in the protest and also of people who gave anti-national speeches in Delhi.

Gadkari, who is Minister of Road Transport and Highways, said there are some elements who are trying to mislead the farmers by taking advantage of their agitation.

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