NEW DELHI — A chilly breeze whirls through New Delhi in the mornings and the sun is partly obscured by toxic haze, a marker of another winter in the Indian capital. But along the city’s borders, this year is visibly and viscerally different. The perpetually busy arterial highways […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI – A fourth round of talks between the Indian government and 40 farmers’ unions over divisive farm laws failed to make headway on Thursday, but a cabinet minister said they would continue discussions on Saturday. In India’s biggest farm unrest in years, tens of thousands of […]
Mumbai, Dec 3: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said the condition of poet-activist Varavara Rao, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, had improved but he will continue to remain at a private hospital till December 14. A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S […]
Mumbai, Dec 4: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said it expects the economy to record positive growth in the second half of the current financial year. The economy contracted by 23.9 per cent in the first quarter and 7.5 per cent in the second quarter on account […]
COLOMBO – The Burevi tropical cyclone is headed towards southern India, authorities said on Thursday, after it slammed Sri Lanka’s east coast earlier this week but caused little damage. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a “red” warning to parts of the southern states of Tamil Nadu and […]
MUMBAI – India’s daily rise in coronavirus infections stayed below 40,000 for a fourth straight day, as 35,551 new cases took the tally to 9.53 million, health ministry data showed on Thursday. India’s daily rate has fallen since the south Asian nation reported the world’s highest such tallies […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI – Indian government ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try and break a deadlock over laws passed earlier this year seeking to deregulate the agriculture sector that has ignited the country’s biggest farm protests in years. Tens of thousands of growers have camped […]
Muzaffarnagar (UP), Dec 3: A man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a minor girl at Morna village here, police said on Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday evening when the 12-year-old girl had gone to attend a wedding event, SHO Sube Singh said. The accused […]
NEW DELHI – Undeterred by the harsh winter of India’s capital, its toxic air and surging coronavirus cases, Sukhbinder Singh is among tens of thousands of farmers camped out in protest on the city’s outskirts, along with tractors, trailers, SUVs and food trucks. The farmers say they have […]
New Delhi, Dec 2: India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 94.99 lakh, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 89 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to over 94 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The total coronavirus […]
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