Category: India News

PM Modi urges people to read e-booklet highlighting how agro-reforms help farmers

New Delhi, Dec 19: Amid the deadlock between the Centre and the protesting farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday urged people to read and share widely an e-booklet issued by the government highlighting how the recent agro-reforms help farmers. The government has issued an e-booklet in English and Hindi […]

Ahead of UNSC tenure, India briefs UK on its priorities

New Delhi, Dec 19: Days ahead of India taking up a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council, India and the UK have held discussions on issues that are on the world body’s agenda with the Indian officials briefing their British counterparts about the country’s priorities including reformed multilateralism […]

RSS ideologue M G Vaidya dead

Nagpur, Dec 19:  Senior RSS ideologue and the first spokesperson of the organization Madhav Govind Vaidya died here on Saturday afternoon, his family said. He was 97. Vishnu Vaidya, his grandson, told PTI that he died at a private hospital at 3.35 pm. “He had contracted coronavirus but […]

India surpasses somber milestone of 1 cr COVID-19 cases as 25152 infections added; 347 more die

New Delhi, Dec 19:  India’s COVID-19 caseload surpassed the somber one-crore mark Saturday, adding 10 lakh cases in nearly a month, while the total number of recoveries surged to 95.50 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country’s COVID-19 case tally had surpassed the 20-lakh mark […]

Sikh diaspora drums up global support for farmers’ protest in India

NEW DELHI – Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against deregulation of agriculture markets are drawing strength from Sikhs around the world who are urging foreign governments to intercede with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Farmers, mostly from the Sikh-dominated state of Punjab, have been camped on the borders of […]

Modi offers talks to end India protests against farm reforms

NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday defended India’s biggest farm reforms in decades but offered to “very humbly” hold further talks with farmers protesting against the laws they fear would erode their incomes. Tens of thousands of farmers have blocked roads leading into New Delhi […]

India says ready to soon start voluntary COVID-19 vaccination

NEW DELHI – India’s government said on Friday it could soon start voluntary inoculation against the COVID-19 disease as it considers emergency use authorization for three vaccine candidates including those from AstraZeneca and Pfizer Indian company Bharat Biotech has also applied for emergency approval. The country recorded 22,890 […]

Another ‘severe’ cold day likely in Delhi as icy winds continue

New Delhi, Dec 18: Delhi is likely to record another “severe” cold day on Friday as frosty winds from snow-covered Western Himalayas continue to sweep the national capital, the India Meteorological Department said. The city had recorded a “severe” cold day on Thursday as the maximum temperature dropped to […]

New farm laws have not come overnight, says PM

Bhopal, Dec 18: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the new agricultural laws brought by his government have not come overnight, but were long overdue and insisted that the existing regime of support price for farm produce will continue. Political parties, agriculture experts and progressive farmers demanded such […]

SC reserves judgement in Tata-Mistry case

New Delhi, Dec 17:  The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on the cross appeals filed by Tata Sons Pvt Ltd and Cyrus Investments Pvt Ltd against the appellate tribunal NCLAT order which had restored Cyrus Mistry as the executive chairman of the over USD 100 billion salt-to-software […]

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