New Delhi, February 8 Lok Sabha resumed normal functioning Monday after a week-long disruption over the three Central farm laws following an appeal by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that it was a duty of every member to maintain the tradition of passing the Motion of Thanks to President’s address. AfterRead More

Ghaziabad, February 6 Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday said the protesters demanding the rollback of the contentious agri-marketing laws on Delhi’s outskirts will stay put till October 2 and there will not be any compromise on the demands. Farmers will return home only after the government repeals the contentiousRead More

New Delhi, February 6 Protesting farmer unions on Saturday said they were ready to resume talks with the government, but asked it to come up with a fresh proposal as the existing offer to put the three farm laws on hold for 12-18 months is not acceptable to them. TheRead More

New Delhi, February 4 Fifteen MPs from 10 opposition parties, including the SAD, DMK, NCP and the Trinamool Congress, were stopped by police from reaching Ghazipur border on Thursday to meet farmers protesting against new farm laws, a SAD leader said. According to SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal who coordinatedRead More

New Delhi, February 4 Taking cognisance of her tweets in support of farmers’ agitation in India, Delhi Police have registered a case against Swedish teen climate campaigner Greta Thunberg under Sections 120B and 153-A of the Indian Penal Code (OPC) on charges of “criminal conspiracy and promoting enmity”. On FebruaryRead More

New Delhi, February 4 The more than two-month-long farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws continues on Delhi’s borders. In such a scenario, Bharatiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has evolved a formula to keep the movement going: Get one tractor and 15 people for 10 days from everyRead More

New Delhi, February 4 Over 21 per cent of the population, aged 10 years and above, showed evidence of past exposure to COVID-19 in the ICMR’s latest national serosurvey, the government said on Thursday, noting that a large proportion of people are still vulnerable to the infection. The Indian CouncilRead More

New Delhi, February 3 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday threatened legal action against his Punjab counterpart Amarinder Singh for allegedly sharing a “doctored” video of him on social media. Kejriwal accused Singh of resorting to dirty politics for political survival. In the video shared on Twitter by Singh’sRead More

New Delhi, February 3 Speaker Om Birla adjourned the Lok Sabha for the day after Opposition MPs refused to pay heed to his repeated requests to allow the House to function. Union minister Arjun Meghwal said it was the “Constitutional duty” of MPs to thank the President for his addressRead More

Baghpat (UP), January 31 The ripples of farmers’ protest against the new agri laws on Delhi’s borders spread further in western Uttar Pradesh with thousands of people converging for a ‘mahapanchayat’ on Sunday in Baghpat, the third such congregation in the region in as many days. The ‘sarv khap mahapanchayat’Read More