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The 29-year-old Tamil Nadu player was one of the rookies named in the playing eleven of the injury-ravaged Indian team against Australia in the fourth and final Test which started here on Friday. He made his international debut in the third ODI against Australia on December 2 in Canberra, which India won by 13 runs.

A 38-year veteran of Congress who first came to the Senate during President Bill Clinton's impeachment, Schumer is a 70-year-old bundle of energy with one overriding mandate: Help Joe Biden become a successful president. To do so, he'll have to leverage the narrowest possible majority a 50-50 Senate with the incoming vice president, Kamala Harris, delivering the tie-breaking vote.

A letter from Xi to Schultz reported Friday by the official Xinhua News Agency was a rare direct communication from China's paramount leader to a foreign business figure. Schultz opened Starbucks' first China outlet in 1999 and is a frequent visitor.

Gerry Rice, Director of Communications at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the new measures will reduce the role of the middlemen and enhance efficiency. "We believe the farm bills do have the potential to represent a significant step forward for agricultural reforms in India," Rice said at a news conference in Washington on Thursday.

The actor-turned-politician, in a Facebook post, claimed that she is not being informed about party events in her constituency and this has caused "mental pain" to her. The three-time Birbhum MP, who is on her way to New Delhi, said she will inform the public at 2 pm on Saturday if she takes any "decision". Her post has created ripples in the TMC, which promised to reach out to Roy.

The International Monetary Fund is scheduled to release its World Economic Update on January 26. Talking about India, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said it was a very dramatic lockdown for a country of this size of the population with people clustered so closely together.

This will be the world's largest vaccination programme covering the entire length and breadth of the country and all preparations are in place to initiate the programme on the principles of 'Jan Bhagidari', the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.

"We don't want war and we are in favour of protecting everyone's security but I want to say this in clear terms that if any superpower wants to hurt our pride then our soldiers are capable of giving them a befitting reply," Mr Singh said.

It will be for the first time in over five decades that India will not have a chief guest at the Republic Day parade.

Assembly elections in West Bengal are due this year and the BJP is aiming to dislodge the Trinamool Congress government in the state.