India remembered the martyrs of the 2001 parliament attack. On this day in 2001, terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed attacked the seat of India’s democracy.
Five Delhi Police personnel, a woman Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper and two Parliament Watch and Ward Staff died taking on the terrorists. A gardener and a photojournalist were also killed.
PM Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid tributes to the security personnel who laid down their lives in the 2001 parliament terror attack
At a ceremony at the Parliament complex, Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu, Speaker Om Birla, Union Ministers and many Opposition party leaders paid their respects to those who lost their lives in this terrorist attack.
India’s active Covid-19 caseload has fallen to 3.62 per cent of the total cases, according to the Union Health Ministry.
India’s active caseload stands at 3,56,546 as on date.30,254 persons were found to be Covid-19 positive in the country over the last 24 hours, 33,136 new recoveries were registered during the same period.
Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) will be available round the clock on all days from December 14, 2020.This comes under a year of Reserve Bank making NEFT 24x7.
Transactions of a minimum of Rs 2 lakh or more can be done via RTGS with no maximum ceiling.
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