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Panaji, Dec 16: Goa's beef traders have urged Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to use his "good offices" with the BJP to prevent Karnataka's 'Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2020' from being notified. The bill was passed amid controversy in the Karnataka Assembly last week. In a letter to Sawant, the Qureshi Meat Traders Association of Goa said that beef was a part of a staple

New Delhi, Dec 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi lit the 'Swarnim Vijay Mashaal' at the National War Memorial on Wednesday to mark the 50th-anniversary of the 1971 India-Pakistan war. The Prime Minister paid tributes to the fallen soldiers at National War Memorial. He was received by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the venue. On this occasion, the Defence Minister unveiled the logo for

New Delhi, Dec 16: With 26,382 new Covid-19 infections and 387 new deaths in the last 24 hours, the total cases in India reached 99,32,548, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Wednesday. With 387 new deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the toll mounted to 1,44,096. The total active cases in the country are at 3,32,002. With 33,813 new discharges in the last 24 hours

Violence at a Wistron Corp factory in southern India is likely to stall the company's and its client Apple Inc's drive to expand local manufacturing, while forcing the government to redouble efforts to encourage foreign investors. Thousands of contract workers angry over the alleged non-payment of wages, destroyed equipment and vehicles at a Wistron plant in southern India on Saturday, causing an

Bengaluru, Dec 16: The Primary and Secondary Education Department is considering reducing summer holidays so as to make up for the academic days lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The teachers’ associations have extended full support to the government’s decision. The state technical committee for Covid-19 had advised the education department to trim the summer holidays and the department is

New Delhi, Dec 15: A month before its scheduled release, former President Pranab Mukherjee's memoir 'The Presidential Years' has run into a controversy. The publisher, Rupa Publication, has announced that the memoir will be out in January. However, Pranab Mukherjee's son, Abhijit Mukherjee has objected to it and has alleged that the publisher has leaked certain "motivated excerpts". Taking to

Lucknow, Dec 15: A man shot dead his sister in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut town, about 450 kilometres from here, allegedly after she refused to make chapatis for his pet dogs. The man, identified as Ashish Kumar, a resident of Bhavanpur locality in the town, called the cops after killing his sister and informed them about the incident. He was later arrested. Police sources here said that Ashish, who

New Delhi, Dec 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that his government is addressing the concerns of farmers over the new farm laws and accused the opposition parties of misguiding them. Modi was speaking after laying foundation stones of a desalination plant, a hybrid renewable energy park, and a fully automated milk processing and packing plant in his home state Gujarat. "Farmers

Kolar, Dec 15: A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against 7,000 unknown people including 5,000 contract workers in connection with violence and vandalism at the facility of Wistron Pvt Ltd, manufacturer of iPhone, at its plant in Kolar, police said. In the FIR, the company stated that it suffered losses of over Rs 437.7 crores during the violence on December 12. Damages have been

Mumbai, Dec 15: The Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday extended time for the privileges committee to submit its report on breach of privilege notices against Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and actress Kangana Ranaut till the last day of the next Legislature session. Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik submitted the breach of privilege notices against Goswami and Ranaut to the office of the