Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided Friday to leave benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 per cent. RBI however, maintained an accommodative stance, implying rate cuts in the future if need arises to support the economy hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The benchmark repurchase...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha proceedings were disrupted for the third consecutive day Thursday as protests by Opposition members demanding a separate discussion on the three contentious farm laws created uproar. The ruckus created by the Opposition members led to repeated adjournments of the House. As...
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah will lay on Table a statement explaining the circumstances which had necessitated immediate legislation by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021 in the Rajya Sabha Thursday. He will also introduce the Bill to amend the Jammu and...
Washington: The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 104.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.26 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...
New Delhi: Farmers’ agitation sites just outside Delhi resemble ‘international border’ now. Authorities have built makeshift walls, planted huge metal spikes on roads and deployed concertina wire fences, protesters alleged Wednesday. However, officials defended the heavy barricading and cited law and order issues. The heightened...
New Delhi: Five extra hours have been added to the duration of discussion in Rajya Sabha on a motion thanking the President for his address to the joint sitting of Parliament to allow debate on the farmers' protest against three agri reform legislations. The Rajya...
Bhubaneswar: Common people in the city have been put to untold suffering due to a massive shortage of non-judicial stamp papers. Stamp papers are an essential document with varied monetary values that are required to execute various legal deeds like lease agreements, rent agreements, buying...
New Delhi: The government Tuesday asserted in the Lok Sabha that it was ready to discuss farmers’ issues both inside and outside the Parliament. The statement came amid vociferous protests by the Opposition. The protests forced the House to adjourn twice, first for almost an...
New Delhi: Congress and other opposition parties Tuesday forced adjournment of Rajya Sabha proceedings for the third time in the pre-noon session as they insisted on taking up a discussion on the issue of farmers' protest over the three new farm bills. The House was...
New Delhi: Opposition parties including the Congress, Left, TMC and DMK Tuesday walked out from Rajya Sabha after their demand for suspension of business of the day to take up a discussion on the farmers' agitation was rejected by the Chairman. The opposition parties had...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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