New Delhi: There are more than 7,000 coronavirus mutations in India of which some could pose a serious risk, a senior scientist said on Monday. Rakesh Mishra, Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, said among the variants, N440K is spreading a lot more in the […]
Even as the world of social media, and our ministry of external affairs, jumps through hoops over tweets by two “outsiders”, the singer Rihanna and the climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the ongoing farmer protests in India, there are weightier issues that continue to confront this nation. There is, of course, the continuing protest by […]
The protests against farm laws that were hurriedly passed by the Indian government in September pose the most severe challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authority since he first came to power in 2014. Farmers fear the laws, which the supreme court has now paused, will pave the way for the entry of large corporations into the agricultural […]
Several English and Hindi news platforms on Thursday published reports by news agencies ANI and PTI claiming that the United States had come out “in support of India’s new farm laws saying it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of Indian markets and attract greater private sector investment”. Had they bothered reading the statement […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed the Centre for not providing cash transfers to the poor in the Union Budget, and said the Modi government was planning to give the country’s assets to a few capitalists. In a tweet after the Budget, he said, “Forget putting cash in the hands of people, […]
New Delhi: The Delhi Police have filed 22 cases in connection with the violence during the Republic Day tractor rally by farmers protesting against the centre’s three contentious farm laws passed in September. The Delhi Police also said more than 300 policemen were injured in the violence, which took place mostly in and around Mukarba […]
New Delhi: ‘Pakistan zindabad’ slogans were raised during e-bike race between families near Khan Market metro station in the national capital in the wee hours of Sunday, the Delhi Police informed. According to the police, “Tughlaq Road police station received a PCR call that slogans of ‘Pakistan zindabad’ have been raised near Khan Market metro […]
Don’t disrespect after inviting, She refused to give speech Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday questioned why India should have only one capital at Delhi and suggested that there should be four rotating capitals in different parts of the country. The Chief Minister made the proposal while addressing a gathering after participating […]
New Delhi: Arnab Goswami owned news channel Republic TV, since its launch in May 2017, had reportedly gained illegal access to an additional 22 million users of Prasar Bharati-owned direct-to-home (DTH) service, DD FreeDish, without paying the government for it. Goswami’s Republic TV allegedly dodged an auction process which requires channels to shell out Rs […]
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was not in favour of granting one more opportunity to those civil services aspirants who could not appear in their last attempt in the exams conducted by the UPSC last year due to the pandemic situation. A bench headed by Justice A M […]
