NEW DELHI: Offer to hold discussions with farmers to allay apprehensions about farm bills, BJP on Thursday accused Congress of the “double-sided” policy and said Rahul gandhi He should first unlink his party from his 2019 electoral manifesto in which he had promised what the Modi government has done. At …
Read More »India China News: Should Avoid Changing LAC Status Quo, Says MEA | India News
NEW DELHI: The government said it was important to avoid changing the status quo in border areas as India and China continue their discussions to achieve complete disconnection in all areas of friction and to ensure the full restoration of peace and tranquility along the Line of Current Control (LAC). …
Read More »Prior to the virus, Maharashtra village officials fight fear and stigma
Written by Tabassum Barnagarwala | Ratnagiri | Updated: September 25, 2020 8:06:17 am In the isolation room of the Ratnagiri Civil Hospital, where family members collaborate to help patients. (Express Photo of Tabassum Barnagarwala) Imran Solkar recalls when the first case of Covid-19 reached Rajiwada, a coastal fishing village in …
Read More »CAG: Center violated the law, used funds for GST compensation elsewhere
Written by Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: September 25, 2020 8:55:20 am The government, instead of transferring the full amount of the GST tax to the GST compensation fund, withheld it in the CFI and used it for other purposes. (Proceedings) Citing the opinion of India’s Attorney General, …
Read More »India China News: Should Avoid Changing LAC Status Quo, Says MEA | India News
NEW DELHI: The government said it was important to avoid changing the status quo in border areas as India and China continue their discussions to achieve complete disconnection in all areas of friction and to ensure the full restoration of peace and tranquility along the Line of Current Control (LAC). …
Read More »Mini Lok Sabha session posted record productivity | India News
NEW DELHI: postponed sine die eight days before its scheduled duration, the shortened monsoon session of Lok Sabha witnessed a record 167% productivity with several key bills passed, although the opposition withdrew from the proceedings on the final day in protest of the fight that took place in Rajya sabha …
Read More »Kerala adds 11,000 Covid cases in two days; CM says serious situation
Written by Shaju Philip | Thiruvananthapuram | Updated: September 25, 2020 8:03:09 am A Covid hospital built by Tata Group in Kasaragod in Kerala. It was handed over to the state government on September 10. While the country as a whole, and the five states with the highest number of …
Read More »Deepika Padukone to appear before NCB on September 26, Rakul Preet Singh to record statement today in drug case
Actress Deepika Padukone will appear before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday to record her statement in a drug investigation linked to the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. Previously, the NCB had summoned Padukone on September 25 in the drug case. On Thursday, the actor acknowledged the subpoena sent …
Read More »To oppose the new farm law, Punjab wants the entire state to declare a mandi yard
Written by Kanchan Vasdev | Chandigarh | Updated: September 25, 2020 7:43:58 am Farmers in Punjab have been protesting against the agricultural laws. (Proceedings) WITH THE SAD Opposition raising the stakes with the resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the Union Cabinet on Center Farm Laws Amid Farmer Protests, Congress-run …
Read More »Hope in numbers: Active Covid cases on the decline, R-value now below 1
Written by Amitabh Sinha | Pune | Updated: September 25, 2020 7:25:59 am A health worker taking off PPE after finishing the collection of the covid test sample at Taluka’s office in Detroj village, Ahmedabad district. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran) As India’s coronavirus numbers continue to grow, some promising …
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