India

New Delhi, Dec 28: Till now, the government was calling the farmers who were against the new agricultural law misguided, but now a farmer leader has said that the government itself is misguided about the agricultural reforms. Farmer leader Joginder Singh said that the government wants to change the fate of the farmers by implementing the model of agrarian reform which has failed in other countries

Mumbai, Dec 28: In a sensational revelation, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday claimed that for the past one year, some senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have been indirectly pressurising him to help topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi government headed by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. "Some senior leaders are meeting me continuously to attempt to convince me not to continue support to the MVA as

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 28: Twenty one-year-old Arya Rajendran has been elected as the next Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation on Monday, making her the youngest candidate to occupy such a post in the country. On December 25, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) district secretariat in a meeting decided to make her the Mayor. Arya won as CPI(M) Councillor from Mudavanmukal ward

New Delhi, Dec 28: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has voiced anguish over the "shrinking space" for debate and dissent in the country where people are jailed without trial through arbitrarily imposed charge of sedition. In an e-mail interview with PTI, the 87-year-old Harvard University professor backed the farmers' protests against three agricultural laws, insisting there was a "strong case" for

New Delhi, Dec 28: Social activist Anna Hazare has threatened to go on a hunger strike if his demands on issues concerning farmers are not met by the Union government by the end of January next year, and said it would be his "last protest". Speaking to reporters in his Ralegaon Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra on Sunday, Hazare said had had been holding protests for cultivators

New Delhi, Dec 28: Dry runs of the coronavirus vaccination programme started on Monday in four states, a day after India recorded its lowest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases in nearly six months. The two-day dry run from Monday in four states comes ahead of Centre's proposed ambitious vaccination drive likely to be kicked off in January. What is a dry run? To assess the readiness of the mechanism

New Delhi, Dec 27: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday hit back at Shiv Sena for its editorial piece in its mouthpiece Saamna in which it alleged that the relations between the Centre and States are worsening. BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told ANI, "Shiv Sena is speaking like Muslim League. They are in coalition with Congress and I think they are getting impacted by the ideology of

New Delhi, Dec 27: Covid-19 carnage may have slightly pushed back timelines but there is certainly no going back on privatisation of bluechip public sector undertakings like BPCL and Air India as the government feels it has no business to be in business. The spadework started late last year and 2020 was supposed to be the landmark year in India's history of privatisation with at least three top

New Delhi, Dec 27: From the depths of despair to an adrenaline-pumping ascent, equity investors traversed the whole gamut of emotions in 2020 as a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic followed by equally unprecedented stimulus measures whiplashed global stock markets, upended conventional wisdom and blurred the lines between investing and speculation. Dalal Street witnessed gut-churning fluctuations, with

Nagpur, Dec 27: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Sunday urged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reveal findings of the investigation of the Sushant Singh Rajput death case at the earliest. "It has been more than 5 months since the investigation began but CBI has not revealed if actor Sushant Singh Rajput was murdered or he died by suicide. I request CBI to reveal findings of