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Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday attacked the central government over the three controversial farm laws, saying only businesses, and not farmers, would benefit from them. Addressing farmers at ‘Safar-e-Shahadat’ Kirtan Darbar, commemorating the martyrdom of Mata Gujri and the chaar sahibzaadas At the Singhu border, Kejriwal said: “The …

A 63-year-old contract farmer, who was also a member of one of the unions protesting on the Delhi borders, committed suicide on Sunday morning. The victim, identified as Amarjeet Singh Rai, consumed sulfa tablets, which are used to protect crops from rodents, near Pakora Chowk, the protest site of BKU …

Ram Chandra Prasad (RCP) Singh was appointed on Sunday the next national president of Janta Dal (United). A former IAS official, Singh had served as Nitish Kumar’s chief secretary in his previous term as prime minister and voluntarily retired in 2010 to be nominated for the party’s Rajya Sabha. He …

Predicting a severe cold snap in the national capital and various other parts of northern India, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a rather unusual warning. In an impact-based warning, IMD urged residents of India’s northernmost states to protect yourself from the biting cold by avoiding alcohol. According to the …

Maharashtra Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh on Sunday urged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reveal whether actor Sushant Singh Rajput died by suicide or was killed. He said the CBI should release the findings of its investigation in the case as soon as possible. “It has been more than …

Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that the Center never intended to remove the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and did not ‘Mai Ka Lal‘could take land away from farmers even as protests against farm reform laws entered their fifth week. Addressing the opposition, Rajnath, who has been at …

The IWC has filed a contempt declaration in the Saradha Chit Fund scam before the Supreme Court, seeking to link Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with some of the accused and accusing her government of showing “constant, deliberate and voluntary non-cooperation” in the investigation and of “a concerted effort to evade, …

“We don’t care about speed … We don’t sell speed, we sell time.” This may seem surprising coming from the co-founder of the American firm Virgin Hyperloop. Yet Josh Giegel, now one of the first people in the world to take on the transportation system involving levitating test capsules traveling …

More than five months after three young men from Rajouri they were killed in shopian In an Army operation on July 18, J&K Police filed a charge sheet, charging an Army Captain and two civilians with their alleged kidnapping and murder. The 300-page charge sheet establishes a “prima facie” case …

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government is ready to hold talks on “issues, logic and facts” with farmers protesting against the new farm laws, farmers’ unions announced the resumption of talks on 29 from December. Following deliberations on the government’s offer for the talks, farmers’ unions, …