Bangkok, October 17 Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in a wave of protests across Bangkok and other Thai cities on Saturday in defiance of a government crackdown following three months of demonstrations aimed at the prime minister and monarchy. Many protesters said they had been stirredRead More

New Delhi, October 17 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is “deeply disturbed” and this is obviously impacting the overall relationship between India and China. Jaishankar made these comments against the backdrop of the over five-month-long border standoffRead More

New Delhi Calling for full preparedness to ensure speedy access to COVID-19 vaccines for every citizen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday suggested developing a vaccine delivery system on the lines of conduct of polls and disaster management while involving all levels of government and citizen groups. Chairing a meetingRead More

New Delhi, October 15 India and China are engaged in talks to resolve the border standoff and what is going on is “something confidential” between the two sides, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday. Asked specifically about the outcome of the ongoing talks during an online conclave, theRead More

New Delhi Stating that agriculture is the top priority for the union government, Agriculture Ministry officials on Thursday said various farmers’ issues were discussed in Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal’s meeting with representatives of 29 farmer unions from Punjab on Wednesday. Responding to the farmers’ criticism that no Minister was presentRead More

New Delhi, October 13 Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday accused “some people” of “spreading lies, fake propaganda and inciting farmers” against the government by calling the new agriculture laws anti-farmer “despite knowing benefits of these laws for farmers to increase their income”. Interacting with scientists, professors and seniorRead More

Mumbai, October 13 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government’s ‘historic’ farm reforms would create opportunities to take farmers to entrepreneurship and added that his regime is focused on increasing their income. Modi was speaking after releasing the autobiography of former Union minister Balasaheb Vikhe Patil and renamingRead More

New Delhi, October 8 The Centre on Thursday permitted with certain conditions political gatherings in poll-bound Bihar and also in those constituencies where bypolls are to be held with the maximum number of people in a close space or a hall capped at 200 while in an open space, itRead More

October 8 Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, one of the most prominent Dalit leaders of the country, died on Thursday at the age of 74, his son Chirag Paswan said. The Lok Janshakti Party founder and Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution was admitted to a private hospitalRead More

New Delhi, October 6 Head of Afghanistan’s peace council Abdullah Abdullah arrived here on Tuesday on a five-day visit during which he will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on the crucial peace initiative in the war-ravaged country.Read More