NEW DELHI: Thousands of farmers gathered at the Singhu border held a meeting on Saturday morning amid a heavy security presence and decided to continue demonstrating there as hundreds of farmers entered the national capital to hold a protest in Sant Nirankari Ground on Friday after facing tear gas, water. …
Read More »PM Modi will visit the vaccine manufacturing units in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune today | India News
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three-city visit on Saturday to personally review the vaccine development and manufacturing process. He will visit the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad and the Serum Institute of India in Pune, Maharashtra, the Prime Minister’s Office said. …
Read More »Jammu Kashmir elections 2020: Polls for the first phase of the DDC elections in Jammu Kashmir begin | India News
JAMMU: Survey for the first phase of the first elections to the District Development Councils (DDC) in Jammu and Kashmir started on saturday morning. Forty-three of the 280 electoral districts of the Union Territory go to the polls in the first phase of DDC elections. Voting will end at 2 …
Read More »MiG-29K pilot missing after accident in the Arabian Sea | India News
NEW DELHI: Commander Nishant Singh, a handsome young naval MiG-29K The fighter pilot operating from the INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, had asked his commander-in-chief for permission to drop “a nuclear bomb on himself” and “willingly sacrifice himself in time of absolute peace” to enter the “spiral of the marriage cemetery. …
Read More »Exam schedule after extended talks: Pokhriyal | India News
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Education said on Friday that the 2021 Class X and XII Board exams and other competitive tests would be held after due consultation with students, parents and teachers in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said: “Taking exams is no less than …
Read More »BMC illegal demolition of Kangana’s house, malafide: HC | India News
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday he said that BMC’s action to wipe out renovations in actor Kangana Ranautbungalow in mumbai Bandra zone, was “illegal and arrogant” and “acted by malafides”. Setting aside the September 9 demolition order, a court of Judges SJ Kathawalla and Riyaz Chagla said that …
Read More »SC criticizes states, says Covid situation has gone from bad to worse | India News
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed deep disappointment with state governments for failing to take concrete action against the spread of the coronavirus in the country, saying that “the situation in the last three weeks has gone from bad to worse.” Attorney General Tushar Mehta said the Union …
Read More »After a day of fighting, farmers offered a place of protest in Burari | India News
NEW DELHI: Concrete slabs, concertina wires, trucks full of sand, and nervous police officers firing rounds of tear gas kept the huge crowd of agitated farmers paralyzed at the Singhu border on the Delhi-Chandigarh highway until Friday afternoon. By the time the administration finally relented and offered the Nirankari samagam …
Read More »Bengal: Double setback for TMC when MLA joins BJP, minister leaves Mamata cabinet | India News
NEW DELHI: With the BJP targeting winning candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal and weakening the ruling Trinamool Congress, political circles in the state are ready for the change talks that have already begun. While the rumor about TMC MLA from Midnapore and a chief minister of …
Read More »Indian and Russian satellites a few meters in space; Roscosmos says 224 million, Isro says 420 million | India News
BENGALURU: India’s CARTOSAT-2F remote sensing satellite is “dangerously close” to a Russian Earth observation satellite (Kanopus-V) in close Earth orbit, and space agencies in both countries are closely monitoring them . Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Friday that according to the main information and analysis center TsNIIMash of the …
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