Ghaziabad, February 12 Beginning Sunday, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait would be attending seven farmers’ meetings planned across Haryana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan to garner support for the ongoing stir against the new farm laws. These farmers’ meetings, which will culminate on February 23, are part of the Samyukta KisanRead More

New Delhi, February 12 India provided over 229 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccines to various countries out of which 64 lakh doses have been supplied as grant assistance and 165 lakh on commercial basis, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday. MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India willRead More

Manitoba has made a deal to buy two million doses of a Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine on the condition it gets approved for use in Canada and is delivered by the end of the year. The province has reached a preliminary agreement to buy a vaccine under development by Canadian biotechnologyRead More

Jhajjar, February 11 Punjab farmers have developed a park over 200 yards at Tikri-Bahadurgarh border by lifting garbage, levelling the surface by earth filling, sowing plants, placing some benches, kots and center tables besides setting up a guest room there. The park has been barricaded with the help of tied-upRead More

Fazilka, February 10 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the State Election Commission to take appropriate measures to ensure free and fair conduct of elections in Fazilka. In all, 13 BJP candidates contesting the MC elections from different wards of Fazilka had filed a writ petition in theRead More

February 11 A close aide to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in a new wave of arrests following last week’s military coup, a party official said on Thursday, as Washington moved a step closer to imposing sanctions on the junta. The aide, Kyaw Tint Swe, hadRead More

Tapovan/New Delhi, February 11 Rescue agencies began drilling through the debris in the Tapovan tunnel to establish contact with the over 30 people trapped inside after a flash flood, an operation which stalled briefly Thursday when the Dhauliganga river began swelling again. The confirmed death toll in the Uttarakhand disasterRead More

New Delhi, February 11 India and China have started the process of disengagement from the north and south banks of Pangong Lake and a meeting of senior commanders within 48 hours will sort out the remaining issues of discord in this sector, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced in Rajya SabhaRead More

Chandigarh, February 10 British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Wednesday expressed concern over the arrest of labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur over the farmers’ agitation, saying the abuse of peaceful protest activists, especially women, is an affront to democracy and civilised society. “Alarmed to learn of sexual assaultRead More

Chandigarh, February 10 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that a Muslim girl who is less than 18 years old but has attained puberty is free to marry anyone as per the Muslim Personal Law. A bench of Justice Alka Sarin gave the verdict relying on various courtRead More