New Delhi, January 10 India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 1,04,50,284 with 18,645 infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries have surged to 1,00,75,950, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Sunday. The death toll reached 1,50,999 with 201 more people succumbing to the disease in aRead More

New Delhi, January 10 After the failure of the eighth round of negotiations between the Government and farmers’ unions, all eyes are on the Supreme Court which will on Monday take up petitions challenging the farm laws and those seeking removal of farmers who have blocked key entry points toRead More

Lahore, January 8 Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Toiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Friday by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court here in a terror financing case. UN-proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested byRead More

New Delhi, January 8 The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said it had noted reports about the presence of Indo-Canadian politician Ramandeep Brar at farmers’ protests at Kundli Border on January 2. MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the Government was ascertaining the fact after several journalists asked ifRead More

New Delhi, January 8 The eighth round of talks between protesting farmers and the Centre ended inconclusively yet again with Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar making it clear that the government will not repeal the Acts and ‘jathebandis’ stating that they are willing to settle for nothing less. The nextRead More

New Delhi, January 7 The Centre has asked four states recording a surge in COVID-19 cases—Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal—to maintain a “strict vigil” and take steps to curb the recent spike. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to these states to draw their attention “to the lowRead More

New Delhi, January 7 Ahead of the meeting with Union ministers on Friday, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said the government can try as much as it can, but the farmers will not go back home till the three Acts are repealed. “The government has time till tomorrow. ItRead More

January 3 US President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in the southern state, according to a recording of the hour-long call published by US media on Sunday. The Saturday call was the latest move in Trump’s two-month effort insisting thatRead More

New Delhi, January 4 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be flying to Colombo on Tuesday for a three-day visit to review the developments in bilateral relations between the two countries, said a MEA news release. Jaishankar is travelling to Sri Lanka at a time when the alleged ill-treatment ofRead More

New Delhi, January 4 The first meeting of 2021 (otherwise the seventh round) between 40 unions and Central ministers ended without any outcome on the key issues — repealing of the three Farm Acts and a law on the MSP.Farmers spoke only about repealing the three Acts. “We told theRead More