LIVE News Updates: Rajini fans hold demonstration seeking his political entry

Fans of actor Rajinikanth on Sunday held a peaceful demonstration here on Sunday, demanding their screen idol take a plunge into the Tamil Nadu politics.

The actor's fans held banners reading "Va Thalaivaa Va (Come Leader Come)", and "Ippo Illaina, Eppovum Illai (If Not Now, Never)" as they urged Rajinikanth to get into the state politics as he had announced earlier.

The demonstration was held despite the request made by the Rajini Makkal Mandram not to go ahead with it.

The Srinagar-Jammu national highway was reopened on Sunday after seven days in the wake of heavy snowfall last week, even as the city and some other parts of Kashmir received another spell of snowfall, officials said.

The 260 kilometre-long highway -- the only all-weather road connecting Kashmir with the rest of the country -- was re-opened for fresh traffic on Sunday morning, the officials said.

They, however, said only one-way traffic was allowed from Jammu towards Srinagar.

The highway was blocked on January 3 due to accumulation of snow and landslides and shooting stones in the wake of heavy snowfall.

Many vehicles were stranded on the highway which remained closed for traffic for five days.

The road was cleared on Friday, but only stranded vehicles were allowed to move that day and Saturday.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands did not record a single fresh COVID-19 case in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Sunday.

The coronavirus tally in the union territory remained at 4,959, while a total of 62 people have so far died due to the contagion, he said.

Seven more persons were cured of the disease, taking the total number of recoveries in the archipelago to 4,873, the official said.

Delhi's minimum temperature dipped to 7.8 degrees Celsius on Sunday, as cold winds from snow-clad Western Himalayas swept through the plains, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

The mercury is likely to drop to five to six degrees Celsius by January 14, an IMD official said.

Active COVID-19 cases in India stand at 2,23,335, while 1,00,75,950 people have recovered from the disease so far: Union Health Ministry

As the US is still struggling to contain the raging coronavirus pandemic, the country's overall infection tally has surpassed the 22 million mark, while the death toll increased to over 372,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the country's caseload and death toll currently stood at 22,110,203 and 372,152, respectively.

The US is the worst hit country by the pandemic, with the world's most number of cases and deaths, making up more than 24 per cent of the global caseload and over 19 per cent of the worldwide fatalities.

There is good news for tipplers in Uttar Pradesh. The prices of alcohol are set to get cheaper as the state government has announced a cut on excise duty.

The announcement was done on Saturday.

A man allegedly shot dead his newly married daughter over alleged infidelity in Fatehpur district.

Police said the accused, Chandra Mohan Singh, was upset as the in-laws of his daughter Swati, 20, had accused her of continuing her illicit relationship with her alleged lover and had left her at his house on Thursday.

The overall global coronavirus caseload has topped 89.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.92 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 89,571,229 and 1,924,331, respectively.

The US is the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 22,110,203 and 372,152, respectively, according to the CSSE.