By: Trends Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 10, 2020 1:43:50 pm Johnson’s response sparked anger and joy among people, especially Indians on social media. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday confused the current farmer agitation against farm laws in India with the conflict in India and Pakistan, …
Read More »China gave 5 reasons to deploy troops in LAC: Jaishankar
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | December 10, 2020 5:33:09 am Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday that China has given India “five different explanations” for deploying large forces along the Royal Line of Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. (Archive) Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday …
Read More »Farmers Protest: As Numbers Increase, Haryana Farmers Say They Will Exceed Punjab’s Count
Written by Sukhbir Siwach | Chandigarh | Updated: December 10, 2020 12:52:49 pm Farmers block a road on the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana. (AP Photo) The ongoing farmers’ protest on the Delhi borders has seen a rapid rise in Haryana’s participation and those who do not support the …
Read More »BKU (Ugrahan) will seek the release of ‘rights activists’, accused of riots in Delhi
Written by Kamaldeep Singh Brar | Amritsar | Updated: December 10, 2020 10:28:29 am The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) plans to demand the release of several “intellectuals and human rights activists” on Thursday Human Rights Day. (Express file photo of Amit Mehra) Despite the farmers ‘unions’ decision to maintain their …
Read More »The diet of the Indus Valley civilization dominated meat, study finds
Written by Esha Roy | New Delhi | Updated: December 10, 2020 9:00:24 am Lead author, Akshyeta Suryanarayan, at an excavation site in Hisar. The diet of the people of the Indus Valley civilization had a predominance of meat, including extensive consumption of beef, according to a new study published …
Read More »‘I need to deal with bullying … boycotting the polls would have left the field wide open for BJP’: Mehbooba Mufti
Written by Bashaarat Masood | Srinagar | Updated: December 10, 2020 7:18:02 am Mehbooba Mufti said it was important for the PAGD to fight for the right to campaign in the DDC polls. BOYCOTT the District Development Council (DDC) polls, the first election exercise after the removal of J & …
Read More »Farmers say the unrest will intensify; with you, don’t back down: Opposition
Written by Sourav Roy Barman, Manoj CG | New Delhi | Updated: December 10, 2020 7:29:36 am Farmers on the Singhu border in New Delhi. (Express file photo of Gajendra Yadav) Deepening the confrontation over the new agricultural laws, Farmers unions rejected the Center’s written guarantee on Wednesday. on the …
Read More »Panel seeks more data on vaccines ahead of emergency approval
Written by Kaunain Sheriff M, Prabha Raghavan | New Delhi | Updated: December 10, 2020 7:08:31 am Pfizer, which received emergency clearance for the use of its Covid-19 vaccine in the UK, with the first doses delivered on Tuesday, had approached DCGI with a request that no clinical trials be …
Read More »India is ‘target’ of western policy against China, says Russian minister
Written by Shubhajit Roy | New Delhi | Updated: December 10, 2020 5:22:56 am Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (Press Service of the Russian Foreign Ministry via AP) In a scathing comment on the Quadrangle (Quad) grouping, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described India as an “object” of the …
Read More »The 2019 NRC list is not ‘final’; 4,700 names are not eligible, said Guwahati HC
Written by Abhishek Saha | Guwahati | Updated: December 10, 2020 3:21:40 am The NRC process has hit a stone wall since then and the NRC office has yet to issue refusal orders for the 19 lakh people excluded. (Archive) CONTRARY TO THE POSITION STATED so far, Assam’s NRC (National …
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