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The Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education (SCHE) will now announce the results of AP EAMCET 2020 today, October 10. It was reported yesterday that the result will be released on Friday. However, now a Times of India report suggests that this has been postponed for today. Once the …

Three weeks after Parliament passed three controversial land bills, protests against the laws continue to rage in Punjab and Haryana. When two of the pieces of legislation were presented during a chaotic session in Parliament on September 20, some opposition MPs claimed that they would prove to be the “death …

The country is undergoing a deepening COVID-19 crisis triggered by the Union government’s inability to address it with robust public policy measures. This crisis has been preceded by a more persistent crisis manifested in the calculated denial of the NDA regime to scrutiny of legislative proposals in parliament. This process …

Farmers shout slogans as they block a national highway during a protest against agriculture-related bills presented by the central government, in Beas, Punjab, on September 16, 2020 (NARINDER NANU / AFP). BJP chief JP Nadda and Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar have briefed party ministers and parliamentarians to engage …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mounted a vigorous defense of the three bills, making it clear that his government will move forward to get the go-ahead from Parliament for measures aimed at opening private avenues for farmers to sell their produce. Farmers in states like Punjab and Haryana have been …

New Delhi: After Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned from Narendra Modi’s cabinet over the introduction of three agricultural bills, pressure from the opposition increased on the BJP ally in the party Haryana Jannayak Janata and its leader Dushyant Singh Chautala to resign as deputy minister. Congressional spokesman Randeep Singh …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra modi on Friday he said farm bills approved by Lok Sabha are “historic” and attack opposition parties for “misleading” farmers. With opposition parties calling three bills “anti-farmers” and the BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal By resigning his government to protest against them, Prime Minister Modi …

NEW DELHI: The opening day of the Parliament session, Congress opened a three-pronged attack against Modi’s government, accusing it of mishandling pandemic and to introduce three agricultural ordinances to weaken farmers and leave them at the mercy of business. He also demanded a discussion on Chinese aggression while seeking the …

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday called on the union government not to present the three central agricultural ordinances for approval in parliament until all reservations expressed by the ‘Kisan’ organizations, as well as farmers and khet mazdoor are properly managed. A decision to this effect was made …

NEW DELHI: GDP data for the June quarter of fiscal year 21 to be released tonight would reveal the extent of the damage that the coronavirus pandemic has caused to the Indian economy. While India’s economy had slowed long before the pandemic hit, Asia’s third-largest economy is expected to enter …