By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: December 24, 2020 10:35:40 am Basudeb Das Baul performing for Amit Shah. (PTI / File) The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has tried to contact Bengali folk singer Basudeb Das Baul, days after he received Union Interior Minister Amit Shah for lunch at his …
Read More »In an attempt to attract support, Punjab agricultural leaders begin to travel to other states
Written by Raakhi Jagga | Ludhiana | Updated: December 24, 2020 1:05:44 pm As part of the plan, Satbir Singh, the secretary general of state of the Kirti Kisan Union (KKU), Punjab, was in Mumbai on Tuesday. (Archive) Punjabi peasant leaders protesting on the Delhi borders have started traveling to …
Read More »Socks, soap, shawls: in Tikri, a ‘kisan mall’ where everything on the shelves is free
Written by Somya Lakhani | New Delhi | Updated: December 24, 2020 9:56:58 am At the Singhu border on Wednesday. A month ago, when Jagjit Singh (40) hastily left his village in Bathinda in Punjab for Delhi, he only packed a pair of socks, which are now torn and dusty. …
Read More »Amid fears of a new strain of Covid, Karnataka becomes the second state after Maharashtra to impose a nightly curfew
Written by Darshan Devaiah BP | Bangalore | Updated: December 23, 2020 10:09:15 pm Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said the night curfew will come into effect on December 24 and will be in effect on January 2. The curfew hours will be from 11 pm to 5 am. Karnataka has …
Read More »BJP MSP Post Features Protesting Farmer in Singhu
Written by Raakhi Jagga, Abhinav Rajput | Ludhiana, New Delhi | Updated: December 23, 2020 8:51:35 am Harpreet Singh in Singhu. The BJP in Punjab on Tuesday removed a post about the MSP buying crops from social media after the 36-year-old model whose photos were used as part of the …
Read More »Mumbai night curfew: police will impound vehicles and patrol roads
By: Express News Service | Mumbai | Updated: December 23, 2020 8:02:50 am The Maharashtra government announced on Monday a nightly curfew from Tuesday to January 5 to ensure there is no spike in Covid-19 cases during Christmas and New Years Eve, when many people celebrate on the weekends. roads. …
Read More »New strain not in India, says government, issues standard operating procedures for UK visitors
Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: December 23, 2020 7:33:35 am Under the new standard operating procedures, district surveillance officers will contact those who arrived from the UK between 25 November and 8 December and advise them to self-monitor their health. (Archive) A DAY after announcing …
Read More »Delhi May Eliminate Daycare Admissions By 2021-22, Schools Unlikely To Open Before July
Written by Mallica Joshi | New Delhi | Updated: December 23, 2020 8:39:36 am Daycare admissions in Delhi are a highly regulated process, and the Delhi government decides on the schedule and criteria for admission. (Figurative) The DELHI government is considering eliminating daycare admissions for the 2021-22 academic session. The …
Read More »60% increase in leopard numbers from 2014 estimates: Prakash Javadekar
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | December 22, 2020 3:15:21 am Estimates for 2014 put the leopard population at nearly 8,000, which has risen to 12,852. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Monday that “there has been a 60 percent increase in the leopard population count in …
Read More »Biden appoints Bharat Ramamurti to the National Economic Council
By: Express Web Desk | Washington | Updated: December 22, 2020 3:34:24 pm Bharat Ramamurti (Photo: Twitter) US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday appointed American Indian Bharat Ramamurti as deputy director of the National Economic Council, which is the White House’s advisory agency to the president on national and global …
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