New Delhi: Thousands of farmers stayed put at their protest venues near Delhi’s border Friday. The farmers braved a severe chill as the mercury dipped to 1.1 degrees Celsius on the New Year’s Day. This is the lowest the mercury has dipped in the national...
New Delhi: This New Year is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget. Millions of Indians planned to usher in the New Year with subdued celebrations at home because of...
New Delhi: India is likely to have a COVID-19 vaccine in the New Year, Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) VG Somani hinted Thursday. Speaking at a webinar, VG Somani said the most important thing is that the industry and research organisations have stood the...
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers stayed put at their protest venues near Delhi's border Thursday as their talks with the government remained deadlocked over the main contentious issues of the repeal of three farm laws and a legal guarantee for MSP. The government and farm...
Kohima/Imphal: The controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which allow security forces to conduct operations anywhere and arrest anyone without any prior warrant, was promulgated in Nagaland and Manipur in view of the "disturbing situations", officials said on Wednesday. An official of the Nagaland...
New Delhi: The government and farm unions reached some common ground Wednesday to resolve protesting farmers’ concerns over rise in power tariff and penalties for stubble burning. However, the two sides remained deadlocked over the main contentious issues of the repeal of three farm laws...
New Delhi: Three union ministers met a 41-member representative group of thousands of farmers protesting against three farm laws here Wednesday. It was the sixth round of talks between the two sides to break the over one-month-long deadlock on the contentious issue. The farmers have...
Bhubaneswar: The last rites of legendary music director Shantanu Mohapatra was performed at Satya Nagar crematorium here Wednesday. As per the direction of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the music director was cremated with state honours by police personnel. Before he was cremated, Mohapatra’s body was taken...
New Delhi: The protesting farmer unions have taken a hard stance ahead of their meeting with government Wednesday. The farmer unions have written a letter to the Centre on the talks scheduled between the two sides. They said the discussion will only be on the...
New Delhi: NCP supremo and former Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar accused Tuesday the Centre of bulldozing three new farm laws. Sharad Pawar said that the laws have been implemented without consulting the states. He asserted that agriculture cannot be run ‘sitting in Delhi’ as...
By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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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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