Written by Harish Damodaran | New Delhi | Updated: September 25, 2020 9:38:15 am A wheat field in Punjab. Wheat is one of 23 agricultural products for which the Center currently sets PMS. (Express photo: Jasbir Malhi) The recently enacted law dismantling the APMC (agricultural produce market committee) mandis monopoly, …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: September 24, 2020 5:33:11 pm Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manpreet Ayali (right) and his supporters hold a tractor rally against agricultural bills in Ludhiana on September 23, 2020 (Express photo: Gurmeet Singh). In its opinion article in The Indian Express, Sukhbir Singh …
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Written by Anand Mohan J | New Delhi | Updated: September 24, 2020 1:57:43 pm Umar Khalid, a former JNU student. A Delhi court on Thursday sent former JNU student Umar Khalid, arrested under UAPA charges in a case related to the northeast Delhi riots in February this year, in …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | September 24, 2020 10:18:46 am Narottam Mishra had said: “I don’t wear a mask on any show. ‘Isme kya hota hai?” (AND ME) Madhya Pradesh’s BJP leader and Interior Minister Narottam Mishra, who caused a stir by saying that he does not …
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By: PTI | Pune | September 24, 2020 12:36:49 pm Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut. Maharashtra BJP leader Pravin Darekar said on Wednesday that actress Kangana Ranaut is not above the law and NCB should conduct an investigation if she said she was a “drug addict.” “If Kangana has said she …
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