Karnal/Bathinda/Palwal, February 6 Farmers on Saturday parked their tractor-trailers in the middle of roads and raised slogans against the Centre during a three-hour-long “chakka jam” agitation in Punjab and Haryana. Women took part in the stir in a sizeable number at several places. The call for the nationwide “chakka jam”Read More

Yangon, February 6 Myanmar’s new military authorities appeared to have cut most access to the Internet on Saturday as they faced a rising tide of protest over their coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected civilian government. Numerous internet users noted a slow disappearance of services, especially from mobileRead 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

Air Canada is putting all Rouge flights on hold as a result of new travel rules brought in by the government last week to scale back non-essential travel even more. The rules targeted flights to sun destinations in the Caribbean, and most Air Canada flights to that area are operatedRead 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

Chandigarh, February 4 Documents and files related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents have been handed over by the CBI to the Punjab Police, a state government statement issued here on Thursday said. “The documents and files relating to the cases were handed over to the Punjab Police hours before theRead 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