MUMBAI: Under fire from all quarters, the Maharashtra government suspended its own controversial Aug. 10 order on Wednesday implementing the three agricultural ordinances, now laws, that made it the first state in the country to enforce them, officials here said. . These were: Ordinance 2020 on Trade in Agricultural Products …
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NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday successfully tested the extended range version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which has emerged as a primary conventional precision strike weapon for the armed forces, from the integrated proving ground at Balasore. Defense sources said the test, the second of the extended-range BrahMos missile, …
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NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday slammed the BJP Government in Uttar Pradesh because the family of gang rape victim Hathras was denied the right to perform their last rites, with the party leader Priyanka gandhi Vadra demanding prime minister Yogi Adityanathresignation. The body of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died …
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NEW DELHI: The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) announced on September 25 that 14,92,409 Covid tests had been conducted in the country the previous day, a record number that has not been achieved before or since that day. However, the data from 24 major states (and UTs) on the …
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NEW DELHI: China clearly violated its own unilaterally defined Royal Line of Control (LAC) in 1959, an irregular demarcation spanning rivers and valleys never accepted by India, during the bloody clashes in the Galwan Valley on June 15, a senior defense official said Tuesday. Given current developments, India has no …
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BENGALURU: PSU Defense Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) said on Tuesday that in another big boost to the indigenous program, the 300th advanced light helicopter (ALH-Dhruv) left its hangar. R Madhavan, CMD, HAL said: “The ALH never looked back from the day the prototype took its maiden flight on August 30, …
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AGRA: At 6.55am on Tuesday morning, the 19-year-old Dalit girl from Hathras who had allegedly been gang-raped by four upper-caste men in her village died after a 15-day battle for her life. She had been referred to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi from the Jawaharlal Nehru College of Medicine in …
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LUCK: Almost 28 years later the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, a special court here will decide, on Wednesday, the fate of some of the great names of the Sangh Parivar accused of criminal conspiracy and “incitement”, which led to the demolition of the structure. …
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LUCK: A special court here will deliver the long-awaited trial Wednesday in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case in which BJP veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are among the defendants. IWC Judge SK Yadav had ordered the 32 surviving defendants on 16 September to remain present in court …
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NEW DELHI: The government said on Tuesday that it disagrees with the estimate that Rs 80 billion is needed for the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine in India. The Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Rajesh Bhushan, was responding to a question tweeted by the executive director of the Serum …
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