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Cong to hold nation-wide protests over farmers’ death
The Congress said it would hold protests outside the offices of all district magistrates across the country on Tuesday to protest against the incident in which farmers were overrun by vehicles driven by elements opposed to the stir. The Congress leaders protested outside UP Bhawan in the national capital...
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally
New Delhi: WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening. All three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure. “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we...
Tension outside Akhilesh home as he sits in protest
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is on a sit-in outside his home in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow after he was not allowed to leave home to visit Lakhimpur Kheri district, where eight including four farmers were killed in violence on Sunday. Police forces have been deployed outside his home...
UP Police files case against Union minister’s son
Lucknow: A murder case has been filed against Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son for allegedly running a car over protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. Several other people have also been named in the First Information Report (FIR). Four farmers were...
Priyanka detained on way to Lakhimpur Kheri
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was detained early morning today by the Uttar Pradesh police as she headed to meet the families of four farmers killed in the wake of violence during an anti-farm laws protest in the state the previous day. The farmers, who had assembled to...
G23 leaders bracing for a fight
A three-line cryptic letter written by Ghulam Nabi Azad to Congress president Sonia Gandhi during the last week’s Punjab fiasco where he asked on behalf of the G23 to call for an urgent Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting over the presidential election issue. The Congress quickly responded that the...
Opposition leaders congratulate Mamata for landslide victory
New Delhi, Oct 3: A host of opposition leaders on Sunday congratulated Mamata Banerjee on her landslide victory in the Bhabanipur bypoll with a record margin of 58,835 votes. Top Congress leaders were, however, silent on her victory. The party had not put up its candidate against her in...
Leaked records open a Pandora box
Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 different firms located around the world....
Modi says people only level allegations, don’t do ‘research’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that while he attaches big importance to criticism, and respected his critics, there were very few critics and that most people only levelled allegations. In an interview with the Open magazine, PM Modi said, “I feel, and this is my conviction, that for...
Army Chief confirms increased Chinese deployment in eastern Ladakh
Ladakh/ New Delhi: India expects to hold a 13th round of talks with China on the Ladakh standoff and disengagement of military forces next week, Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane said this morning while he added in the same breath that “there has been an increase in the...
RJD says Kanhaiya Kumar like Sidhu, will destroy Cong
Muzaffarpur (Bihar): Bihar’s main opposition party RJD today mocked Kanhaiya Kumar’s induction into the Congress, saying that the former JNU student is like “another Navjot Singh Sidhu” who would “destroy” the grand old party. Ridiculing the Congress by calling it a sinking ship, senior RJD leader Shivanand Tiwari said...
1,000kg Khadi national flag unveiled in Leh, Ladakh
The national flag was inaugurated by Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur. New Delhi: The world’s largest Khadi national flag was installed in Leh, Ladakh, today on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary. It was inaugurated by Ladakh Lieutenant Governor RK Mathur this morning. The tricolor, which is...
Global Covid deaths hit 5 million, delta variant sweeps
It took almost over a year for the COVID-19 deaths to hit 2.5 million. Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant causes a surge in death, mainly among the unvaccinated. More than half of the world has...
Tata wins Air India bid
Tata Sons has finally won the bid for the national air carrier, Air India, according to a Bloomberg report. With this, the privatisation is finally going through and the wait is over. This comes on the back of a panel of ministers accepting the conglomerate’s proposal to take over the airlines,...
Supreme Court criticises farmers’ protest
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today lashed out at a farmers’ group protesting the three agricultural laws saying they have “strangulated the entire city (Delhi) and blocked highways”. The farmers’ body, Kisan Mahapanchayat, had sought permission from the Supreme Court to hold a ‘Satyagrah’ at Jantar Mantar, the designated...
BJP questions EC role in Bengal bypolls
The BJP in West Bengal on Friday accused the Election Commission of changing its attitude towards the party within four months and claimed that the election body had undertaken the “responsibility of making Mamata mamata win”. “The commission had the responsibility to make Mamata win and stop the BJP....
Rahul aide to be Punjab Cong in-charge, Rawat for U’khand
Simmering tensions in the Punjab Congress may lead to another big change by the party with Rajasthan minister Harish Chaudhary likely to replace former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat as the Punjab affairs in-charge. Sources said Rawat, too, has requested to be relieved of Punjab duties to focus on...
Ex-Meghalaya CM, 13 Cong MLAs to join TMC
Former Meghalaya chief minister and current leader of opposition, Mukul Sangma, and 13 other MLAs are likely to quit the Congress and join the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). Sources confirmed to News18 that Sangma had visited to Kolkata last week and met the top TMC leaders during his...
