Farmers To Block Highways On February 6, Other Top Stories

Farmers protesting the centre's three farm laws have called for a countrywide "chakka jam" protest on Saturday. In other news, a nationwide law to ban religious conversions or interfaith marriages is not being planned since it falls under the dominion of states, the central government said in parliament. The centre has given itself time - till July 9 at least - to frame and implement rules relating to the controversial citizenship law, amendments to which were passed in December 2019. Aero India begins today in Bengaluru. The show is taking place in the shadow of the pandemic. Aero India 2021 will be shorter, with no days set aside for public viewing like earlier. In international news, Sputnik V, the world's first registered vaccine based on a well-studied human adenoviral vector-based platform, has been peer-reviewed by medical journal Lancet. It has an efficacy rate of more than 91 per cent and is being distributed in India by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories which is also conducting trials.