MUMBAI: Under fire from all quarters, the Maharashtra government suspended its own controversial Aug. 10 order on Wednesday implementing the three agricultural ordinances, now laws, that made it the first state in the country to enforce them, officials here said. . These were: Ordinance 2020 on Trade in Agricultural Products …
Read More »Hathras gangrape: Yogi Adityanath forms SIT, fast track court to hear the case
By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Updated: September 30, 2020 4:00:28 pm UP Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath set up a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday to investigate the Hathras gangrape. (Proceedings) One day after the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who was allegedly raped and murdered by four upper …
Read More »Uddhav Thackeray government withdraws August order to implement new farm laws under pressure from Congress
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday withdrew its August order to implement the new farm laws after Congress threatened to boycott the cabinet meeting. The Uddhav Thackeray-led government was already in a dilemma over the implementation of the farm reform laws, which were recently passed by Parliament, after Congress and the …
Read More »India successfully tests extended-range BrahMos missile | India News
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday successfully tested the extended range version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which has emerged as a primary conventional precision strike weapon for the armed forces, from the integrated proving ground at Balasore. Defense sources said the test, the second of the extended-range BrahMos missile, …
Read More »Hathras gangrape: Supposedly the relatives of the victim were denied the right to perform the last rites, Congress demands the resignation of UP CM | India News
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday slammed the BJP Government in Uttar Pradesh because the family of gang rape victim Hathras was denied the right to perform their last rites, with the party leader Priyanka gandhi Vadra demanding prime minister Yogi Adityanathresignation. The body of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died …
Read More »ICMR and state governments differ on Covid-19 test numbers | India News
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) announced on September 25 that 14,92,409 Covid tests had been conducted in the country the previous day, a record number that has not been achieved before or since that day. However, the data from 24 major states (and UTs) on the …
Read More »India must remain prepared for “no war, no peace” situation in LAC: IAF chief | India News
NEW DELHI: China clearly violated its own unilaterally defined Royal Line of Control (LAC) in 1959, an irregular demarcation spanning rivers and valleys never accepted by India, during the bloody clashes in the Galwan Valley on June 15, a senior defense official said Tuesday. Given current developments, India has no …
Read More »HAL launches 300º ALH; the LCH test has also been performed | India News
BENGALURU: PSU Defense Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said on Tuesday that in another big boost to the indigenous program, the 300th advanced light helicopter (ALH-Dhruv) left its hangar. R Madhavan, CMD, HAL said: “The ALH never looked back from the day the prototype took its maiden flight on August 30, …
Read More »Gang-raped and tortured, Dalit teenager dies after 15 days of battle | India News
AGRA: At 6.55am on Tuesday morning, the 19-year-old Dalit girl from Hathras who had allegedly been gang-raped by four upper-caste men in her village died after a 15-day battle for her life. She had been referred to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi from the Jawaharlal Nehru College of Medicine in …
Read More »Maximum alert in UP while the court will rule on the Babri demolition case today | India News
LUCK: Almost 28 years later the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, a special court here will decide, on Wednesday, the fate of some of the great names of the Sangh Parivar accused of criminal conspiracy and “incitement”, which led to the demolition of the structure. …
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