NEW DELHI: Preliminary investigation into the source of the PowerPoint toolkit that celebrity environmental activist Greta Thunberg accidentally tweeted suggests it was crafted by a pro-Khalistan organization based in Canada. High-level government sources said the kit, intended to harm India’s interests, was prepared by ‘Peace for justice‘, a body co-founded …
Read More »PM Modi: Previous Governments Drafted a Budget with an Eye on the Vote Bank | India News
GORAKHPUR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi On Thursday he said that previous governments drafted the Union’s budgets taking into account their vote banks and made them only a means of announcements that they could not deliver. “For decades in our country, the meaning of the Budget was limited to which announcements …
Read More »Covid-9: 45% of healthcare workers vaccinated in 18 days, India fastest to hit the 4 million mark | India News
NEW DELHI: India has inoculated about 45% of healthcare workers nationwide against Covid-19 in 18 days since launching its vaccination campaign on January 16, making it the fastest country to vaccinate more than 4 million, according to official data as of February 2. On Wednesday, 2,48,662 beneficiaries were vaccinated with …
Read More »Eliminate inflammatory content or be ready for jail, sanction: Government to Twitter | India News
NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the government warned Twitter to obey its orders regarding the removal of “inflammatory content” in farmers’ protests, or to be ready to face jail time and a financial penalty. The action, under Section 69A (3) of the IT Act, could result in up to seven years …
Read More »Farmers protest in Delhi: Police erect border walls and plant spikes to stop protest | India News
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is to secure the borders, and how! Roads are being excavated with cranes, iron fences and spikes are being cemented into the ground, layers of barricades are being placed, with concrete poured between two barriers for added stability, and concertina wires and rocks are being placed …
Read More »Twitter blocks and then restores accounts linked to agricultural unrest | India News
NEW DELHI: Twitter withheld an unspecified amount of accounts in India in response to a “legal request”, and then restored them around 9pm on Monday. The stories included those from the news magazine Caravan, Kisan Ekta Morcha (Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s computer cell), tribal leader Hansraj Meena and actor Sushant Singh, …
Read More »Covid 19 Vaccine: Covishield, Made in India, Part of Pakistan’s Jab Campaign Under Vaccine Alliance | India News
NEW DELHI: India’s vaccine diplomacy moved forward with the shipment of 1 lakh anti-Covid injections to Oman, a close partner in the Gulf, after having supplied the jabs to immediate neighbors. By the end of this week, India plans to send more than 5 lakhs of doses to Afghanistan. India …
Read More »Covishield, Made in India, Part of Pakistan’s Jab Campaign Under Vaccine Alliance | India News
NEW DELHI: India’s vaccine diplomacy moved forward with the shipment of 1 lakh anti-Covid injections to Oman, a close partner in the Gulf, after having supplied the jabs to immediate neighbors. By the end of this week, India plans to send more than 5 lakhs of doses to Afghanistan. India …
Read More »‘Mix of ignorance and misinformation’: Tomar responds to Pawar on farm laws | India News
NEW DELHI: Union agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar responded to the head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday Sharad PawarCriticism about new agricultural laws and accused him of “ignorant” and “misinformed”. Defending the government’s farm laws, Tomar said the new reforms make it easier to promote an additional …
Read More »Agitation for Farm Laws: Free Our Men and Prepare a Platform for Talks, Says Peasant Leader Naresh Tikait | India News
NEW DELHI: Farm leaders continued their agitation Sunday against the three new farm laws claiming their movement has been the victim of a conspiracy. Agricultural leaders Rakesh Tikait and his brother Naresh Tikait now lead the front from the Ghazipur border, which appears to have become the epicenter of the …
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