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Mumbai court has granted bail to businessman and actor Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra in Pornography content case on a surety of Rs 50,000, news agency ANI reported

We expect to get more than 30 crores doses of COVID vaccine next month. The production will go up as Biological E & other companies are bringing their vaccines into the market. Under 'Vaccine Maitri, we will help the world and contribute to COVAX in the fourth quarter, Union Health Minister Mansikh Mandaviya was quoted as saying by news agency ANI

Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, who joined the Trinamool Congress last week, met Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday.


Supriyo, the BJP MP from Asansol, visited state secretariat Nabanna to meet Banerjee.

"It was great meeting 'Didi'. We had a very good discussion. I thanked her for giving me an opportunity to work for Bengal and serve the people. I am really touched by the affection and warmth of 'Didi' and Abhishek Banerjee," he told reporters after the meeting.

Asked about his role in the TMC, Supriyo said it was for the party to decide.

"I have nothing to say about it. It is for the party and our supremo Mamata Banerjee to decide. It is her prerogative," he said.

This was Supriyo's first meeting with Banerjee after he joined the TMC on Saturday.

Cricketers who participated in 2019-20 Domestic Season will get 50 percent additional match fee as compensation for season 2020-21 lost due to COVID-19 situation, the BCCI Secretary tweeted.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi was on Monday denied permission by authorities to meet former Uttar Pradesh MP Atiq Ahmad, who is lodged at the Ahmedabad-based Sabarmati Central Jail, in the wake of COVID-19 guidelines and other reasons, a party leader said.

Owaisi is on a day-long visit to Ahmedabad to meet party workers, office bearers and supporters. He had also planned to meet Ahmad, the jailed gangster who recently joined the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).

"The Sabarmati jail authorities denied permission to Owaisi to meet Atiq Ahmad on the ground of COVID-19 protocols and also since he is not Ahmad's blood relative," AIMIM Gujarat president Sabir Kabliwala said.

The AIMIM had sought permission from jail authorities for a meeting between Owaisi and Ahmad in the jail premises, but it was denied at last moment, he said.

Ahmad, who has several criminal cases lodged against him, was in June 2019 transferred to the high-security Sabarmati Central Jail here from the UP's Naini jail, where was lodged for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a businessman, on directions of the Supreme Court.

Owaisi's party had forayed into Gujarat politics with local body polls earlier this year and plans to field its candidates in state Assembly elections due next year.

Earlier this month, Ahmad's wife Shaista Praveen joined the AIMIM at a press conference in Lucknow, while the jailed former MP joined the Owaisi-led party party in absentia.

Ahmad was previously associated with various political parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Apna Dal (Sonewal faction).

According to the suicide note found in his pocket, the former Chhattisgarh minister and BJP leader Rajinder Pal Singh Bhatia committed suicide due to his health conditions, Rajnandgaon Additional SP Pragya Meshram was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the National Board of Examination (NBE), National Medical Commission (NMC) and Central government on a plea challenging last minute changes to the syllabus for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) PG Super Speciality exam 2021 (NEET SS 2021), Bar and Bench reported.

According to Russian news agency Tass, An unidentified person has opened fire in one of the buildings of Russia’s Perm State University, leaving several people wounded. Later, the shooter was reportedly neutralised. According to the University, four people have been wounded in the shooting, news agency ANI reported.

The defamation case against actor Kangana Ranaut filed by lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar has been adjourned till November 15. Kangana Ranaut appeared before Andheri court today. Her lawyer has filed a transfer application in the case which will be heard on 1st October.