News18 Evening Digest: PM Says Agri Reforms Will Increase Farmers' Income, 8 Injured in Hyderabad Factory Fire and Other Top Stories

Agri Reforms Will Create New Markets, Increase Income of Farmers, Says PM Modi as Agitation Intensifies The new agri laws will bring down barriers between agricultural and associated sectors, creating new markets for the farmers who will gain from technological advances, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. ‘Not Accountable to Home Minister’: TMC Hits Out on Summons Over JP Nadda’s Convoy Attack Senior Trinamool Congress lawmaker Kalyan Banerjee wrote to Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Saturday, saying that West Bengal’s chief secretary and director-general of police were summoned to Delhi over the attack on BJP chief JP Nadda’s convoy with ”political motive”, asserting that law and order is a state subject. Attack on Nadda Convoy: MHA Calls 3 West Bengal IPS Officers to Serve in Central Deputation Close on the heels of summoning of West Bengal chief secretary and DGP to Delhi to discuss alleged lapses in BJP president JP Nadda’s security, the Union home ministry has now asked for three IPS officers who were on duty to be transferred out of the state. Twitter Thinks Frontline Workers Deserve It US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine’s 2020 “Person of the Year” for their election victory over Donald Trump.