MUMBAI/NEW DELHI – Indian farmer Shingara Singh has grown grain for 35 years and is one of thousands of protesters against agricultural reforms who have the power to help slash a huge annual bill of $10 billion for imports of vegetable oils. But Singh, 55, says he will […]
Allahabad, Dec 28: The Allahabad High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against a Muslim man over a marriage with a Hindu woman, ruling that she had a right to live her life on her own terms. Upholding the interfaith marriage in a case from Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district, […]
NEW DELHI – Experts at India’s drug regulator were meeting on Wednesday to consider approving an AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine for emergency use after Britain became the first country to do so, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. A representative of India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization […]
New Delhi, Dec 30: Proactive implementation of digital platforms such as Aarogya Setu and e-Office backed by robust ICT infrastructure has helped the country reduce the pandemic hardships, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Wednesday. As COVID-19 has impacted the global economy, India has pledged to make itself more […]
New Delhi, Dec 30: Thousands of farmers agitating against the three new central agriculture laws stayed put at their agitation venues near Delhi, which is going through a harsh spell of winter, unrelenting in their demand of withdrawal of the legislations On Wednesday, a cold wave swept Delhi as […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI – India’s major grain-growing state of Punjab on Monday asked police to crack down on farmers and sympathisers vandalising telecommunication masts as they intensify their weeks-long protests against farm deregulation. Protesters have attacked hundreds of masts of companies such as oil-to-groceries conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd that […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI – Food Corporation of India (FCI), the state grain procurement agency, buys rice and wheat from growers every season at guaranteed prices but farmers fear that those purchases may end under new agricultural laws at the centre of recent protests. Farmers say the new laws will […]
BENGALURU – India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks with a more infectious strain of the novel coronavirus that has prompted border closures around the world, even as its daily increase in cases fell to a six-month low. All six patients have been […]
New Delhi, Dec 29: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday reassured the city’s residents by asserting that the national capital is prepared to deal with the new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus. Delhi has witnessed three waves of coronavirus and the third wave was an intense […]
Chennai, Dec 29: Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday announced he will not take the political plunge and start a party as announced earlier, citing his frail health. Discharged from a Hyderabad hospital on Sunday after being treated for blood pressure fluctuations, the top actor expressed fears over those accompanying him […]
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