The US has reached the grim milestone of 300,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

With the national case count topping 16.3 million, the death toll across the US rose to 300,267 as of Monday afternoon, according to the CSSE data, Xinhua news agency reported.

The AIIMS-Delhi Nurses' Union went on an indefinite strike from Monday over their long pending demands, including those with regard to the Sixth Central Pay Commission, following which the Union health ministry directed the institute's director to ensure no disruption of nursing functions.

The ministry also said non-compliance of the code of conduct, laid down as per a Delhi High Court judgment, whereby no employee or staff or faculty member will cease work for any reason, will be treated as an offence under the Disaster Management Act.

Ten organisations from Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Bihar, and Haryana associated with the All India Kisan Coordination Committee on December 14 met Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to extend their support to three farm laws enacted by the government recently.

The committee submitted a memorandum to Tomar which said that some elements in the farmers' agitation in some parts of the country, especially in Delhi, were trying to create misunderstanding among farmers about the farm laws.

Amid the farmers' protest in the national capital Delhi over the government's farm bills, Reliance Jio has approached the Telecom Regulator Authority of India (TRAI), saying that its rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India have resorted to unethical means by capitalising on the ongoing farmer protest in the northern parts of the country.

In a letter to TRAI, Jio has blamed both its major rivals of spreading false rumours that the Mukesh Ambani-led company will benefit from the recent farm bills.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 15 is going to visit Dhordo in Kutch, Gujarat to lay the foundation stone of several development projects in the State, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said on Monday (December 14).

According to the PMO, these projects include a desalination plant, a hybrid renewable energy park, and a fully automated milk processing and packing plant.

A new variant of coronavirus has been found which is growing faster in some parts of England, British MPs have been told.

This comes as the British capital London is set to be placed under the toughest Tier 3 lockdown from early Wednesday to control the spread of the virus. The lockdown will be imposed even as the UK has started mass vaccinations for the existing COVID-19.

The daily new COVID-19 cases fell below 30,000 for the third time this month takingIndia's virus caseload to 98.84 lakh,while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 93.88 lakh,accordingto the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 98,84,100 with 27,071infections being reported in a day. The death toll rose to1,43,355 with 336 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The Assam cabinet on Sunday approved a proposal to close down all government-run madrassas and Sanskrit tols (schools), and a bill in this regard will be tabled during the upcoming winter session of the state Assembly.

Existing laws related to madrassas and Sanskrit tols will be repealed. A bill will be introduced in the next session of the Assembly, PTI quoted Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary as saying.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 72.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.61 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Monday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 72,201,716 and 1,611,758, respectively.

Supreme Court will hear on December 16 a plea seeking a direction to authorities to immediately remove the farmers who are protesting at several border points of Delhi against three new farm laws.

As per Supreme Court website a Bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde, justice A S Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian will hear the plea filed by law student Rishabh Sharma who says that commuters are facing hardships due to the road blockades and the gatherings might lead to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.

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