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Rs 2 lakh for every protester arrested in Delhi tractor rally
Chandigarh: The Punjab government has announced financial help for 83 people arrested in Delhi after violence broke out during a farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day this January. The move is likely to spark a controversy and set up Punjab’s Congress government and the Centre for a new battle....
Ex-UP minister Prajapati, 2 others get life term in rape case
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati and two others were awarded life imprisonment for raping a woman by a special court on Friday. The court that hears cases against lawmakers also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on each convict. Gayatri Prajapati and two other convicts Ashok...
Smriti Irani’s dig at Priyanka’s ‘ladki’ remark
New Delhi: “Ghar par ladka hai par lad nahin sakta (There is a boy at home who can’t fight)”, Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Thursday, countering Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s slogan “Ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon (I’m a girl and can fight)” for her party. Ms...
Kerala Warms Up To Vietnam For Cooperation In Industry And Commerce
A visit to Kerala by a six-member delegation from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is expected to open up several collaborations in the State’s agriculture and industries sector. Vietnam is very similar to Kerala in the fields of agriculture and fisheries but they are far ahead at an international...
Hindu group accused of using forced labour at US temples
New York: A prominent Hindu organisation is facing new allegations in an updated lawsuit that it lured labourers from India and forced hundreds of workers to work for low wages at its temple sites across the United States. In May this year, a group of Indian workers had filed...
Amit Shah to hold brainstorming over UP polls
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will go to Uttar Pradesh for a two-day visit starting Friday to hold strategy meetings regarding the coming elections in the country’s most politically crucial state. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — who suffered some setbacks within the party and among allies after...
China delivers largest, most advanced warship to Pakistan
Beijing: China has delivered to Pakistan the largest and most advanced warship that Beijing has ever exported, Chinese state media reported. Designed and built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC), the frigate was delivered to the Pakistan Navy in a commissioning ceremony in Shanghai, according to Global Times....
Farmer unions announce tractor march to Parliament
New Delhi: Farmer unions protesting against the Centre’s new farm laws have decided to take out peaceful tractor marches to Parliament, every day during the Winter Session from November 29, shortly after their protest at the Delhi border completes one year. The decision was taken today by the nine-member...
UK to recognise Covaxin, no quarantine for vaccinated
Britain said it would recognise COVID-19 vaccines on the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing later this month, adding China’s Sinovac, Sinopharm and India’s Covaxin to the country’s approved list of vaccines for inbound travellers. The changes, which come into force from November 22, will benefit fully vaccinated people...
French report says CBI decided not to investigate kickbacks
New Delhi: French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation paid at least 7.5 million euros (nearly Rs 650 million) in bribes to a middleman to help secure the sale of 36 Rafale fighter jets to India and investigating agencies failed to investigate it despite evidence, French portal Mediapart has alleged in...
Bhim Army chief to fight Yogi, Modi in polls
Lucknow: Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad has declared that he will contest against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the state election next year. The 34-year-old had in 2019 taken a u-turn after announcing that he would fight Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi. “I decided to contest...
Ansal brothers get 7 years in jail for evidence tampering
New Delhi: Businessmen Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal have been sentenced to seven years in jail for tampering with evidence linked to a fire in Delhi’s Uphaar theatre in 1997 that killed 59 people. The Ansal brothers who have a big property business were also fined Rs 2.25 crore...
Modi visits Advani on his birthday, says nation indebted
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today praised LK Advani for his “scholarly pursuits and rich intellect”, and also credited the senior BJP leader for his efforts towards empowering people and enhancing “our cultural pride”, as the former deputy prime minister turned 94 today. The Prime Minister also drove...
Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik criticises Centre
Jaipur: Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday attacked the Centre and the BJP over the farmers’ issue and the Central Vista project, declaring that he is not scared of being asked to step down from his post. In a series of remarks in Jaipur, he said leaders in...
India condemns shooting of fisherman by Pakistan
New Delhi: India has strongly condemned the killing of an Indian fisherman by Pakistan’s maritime security agency in an unprovoked firing, sources have said. The man on the Indian fishing boat was shot dead by Pakistan’s forces on Saturday after they fired at the boat, sources said. “We have...
11 covid patients die in Ahmednagar ICU fire
Ahmednagar: Eleven patients died after a fire broke out in the ICU (intensive care unit) of the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar on Saturday morning. Three to four others have been injured and are being treated. The fire was in the hospital’s COVID-19 ward, in which 17 patients...
22 states, UTs cut fuel taxes, opposition states refuse to toe line
Taking cue from the Centre, which reduced taxes on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 per litre and Rs 10 per litre, respectively, effective Thursday, as many as 22 states and Union Territories have cut their sales tax/VAT rates on the two fuels. Though the state taxes are levied...
Sameer Wankhede removed from drugs-on-cruise probe
New Delhi: Six cases being handled by Sameer Wankhede – the NCB officer leading inquiries into the Aryan Khan drugs case – have been transferred out of his Mumbai unit over allegations of a Rs 8 crore payoff linked to the case involving Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s...
