Amid massive protests against the “Election Laws (Amendment) Bill”, Lok Sabha today passed changes in the election law to allow linking of voter ID with Aadhaar card; Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that 161 cases of the new coronavirus variant Omicron have been reported in India. “As of now, there are 161 omicron cases in India… We are monitoring the situation daily with experts,” the minister told Rajya Sabha while replying to a debate on the COVID-19 situation; Hours after a man was lynched in the presence of policemen in Punjab’s Kapurthala, police officials denied a sacrilege link after a press conference and a phone call among other top stories that backtracked from its own statement.
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