United Nations: “People have the right to demonstrate peacefully and the authorities should allow them to do so,” said Antonio Guterres, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General on the farmers’ protests in India. India has called the statements by foreign leaders about the farmers’ protests “misinformed” and “unjustified” as the matter …
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New Delhi: With the military standoff in eastern Ladakh running into the eighth month, India reiterated on Thursday that the “core problem” with China remained that troops should not be accumulated in the Royal Line of Action (LAC), nor should they be take unilateral measures to alter the situation in …
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New Delhi: When asked by lead attorney Kapil Sibal why the Supreme Court had heard Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami’s bail statement, but was eager to take the statement against the arrest of journalist Siddique Kappan to a lower court, the Supreme Court observed: “Every case is different. “ A …
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New Delhi: Karnataka High Court (HC) ruled that BJP Legislative Council Member (MLC) AH Vishwanath is not eligible to be a minister in Chief Minister Yediyurappa’s cabinet as he was disqualified as an MLA last year under the law against defection. Vishwanath was one of 17 MLA rebels who resigned …
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Mohali: On the fifth day of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, farmers’ union leaders addressed the media on the Delhi-Haryana Singhu border for the second day today. Leaders addressing the press conference included Jagmohan Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda), Yogendra Yadav of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (ABKSS), Gurnaam …
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Patna: It was in March 1988. The imposing socialist patriarch and leader of the Lok Dal Legislative Party (LDLP), Karpoori Thakur, had died a few weeks ago and his colleagues, Gajendra Himanshu, Anuplal Yadav and Vinayak Prasad Yadav were competing to put themselves in his place. Shyam rajak – a …
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Hyderabad’s municipal elections are the new testing ground for communal rhetoric in a secular city, overshadowing voter concerns and development debates. National affairs, Article 370, Ayodhya and Pulwama have overshadowed the people’s demands for better roads, sanitation and health. More than 40% of Hyderabad voters, in a recent study, said …
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New Delhi: Hours after Governor Anandiben Patel enacted the controversial Uttar Pradesh Illegal Conversion of Religion Prohibition Ordinance, 2020, the state police filed the first case in Bareilly. But questions are already being asked about the case, which seems tailor-made to justify the swift enactment of the law. In an …
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New Delhi: Attorney General KK Venugopal avoided another controversy over attempts to restrict freedom of expression when he refused to consent to the initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan for his tweets criticizing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India (CJI) SA Bobde received a special …
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New Delhi: A convoy of at least 10,000 female protesters heading towards Delhi from 14 Punjab districts is led by a female farmer. Harinder Bindu from Bhatinda has been a farmer for no less than 30 years. Bindu has lived his entire life in Punjab with his son, brother, sister-in-law, …
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