Farmers opposed the government’s request for farm legislation on Wednesday and called for a national sit-in demonstration on 14 December. In a press conference, farmer leaders announced a ‘Delhi Gherao’ plan that the Delhi-Jaipur and Delhi-Agra highways would be blocked by the protesters by 12 December and that all tolls throughout the country would be freed. On Wednesday, a representative body of farmers’ unions received a proposal from the government on some of the main issues posed by the demonstrators. The Centre’s recommendations came after a four-hour meeting between 13 agricultural unions and the Cabinet, headed by Home Minister Amit…
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A famous Tamil TV star, Chithra, was found dead in a hotel outside Chennai this morning. The police believe that she died of suicide. Although the police have started a report, they still expect financial problems. The actress had recently been married to her husband at a hotel in the capital of Tamil Nadu. According to sources, Chithra had been in the hotel late last night after returning from the shooting. “She had registered her marriage only recently. We suspect finance issues. We have not recovered any suicide note. The post-mortem is over.” said senior police officers. Chitra was part…
A book on former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee is likely to be released. It has been penned by Shakti Sinha who was a close associate of the prime minister. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an understatement and a single politician of the sort seldom seen in modern times. His patriotism was uncompromising, forged out of the paradoxes of his life: a delicate poet who summoned steel nerves to carry out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests; a man who, from a modest beginning, dreamed a scheme as titanic as the Golden Quadrilateral Highway Network. Devoid of any political pedigree or…
In one of the worst cases of Love Jihad, a woman was trapped by a Muslim stalker in Lucknow. A woman from Madiyagaon lodged a complaint against Saiji Abbas, a resident of Vazirganj, and her family for alleged harassment after being held hostage, raped, humiliated, manipulated and abused. The woman said that after her husband died, Saiji Abbas had made friends with her, claiming to be Arjun. Later, he said he was Manoj. Police said that the survivor is a Sitapur resident. She lives with her little son in a rented house. The accused started to visit the victim’s house…
Two young girls who had accidentally crossed the Control Line (LoC) were repatriated to Pakistan by way of Jammu and Poonch Kashmir crossing points on Monday. Defense sources reported that two minor girls, Laiba Zabair, 17, and Sana Zabair, 13, were handed over to Pakistani authorities at the Chakan Da Bagh crossing point in Poonch district. Belonging to Abasspur in Kahuta Tehsil, Pok, the two girls were intercepted on the Indian side of the Loc in Poonch on December 6 when they crossed the Loc inadvertently. After a meeting between Indian and Pakistani officials at the Chakan Da Bagh crossing,…
State Election Commissioner K.K. Sharma said on Tuesday that 63.08 per cent and 59.71 per cent of the vote had been registered in the fourth phase of Panch and Sarpanch bypolls in Jammu & Kashmir on Monday. Sharma said that the vacancy in Panch seats had taken place in 215 electoral districts in the fourth process. A total of 33,188 voters (including 17,292 males and 15,896 females) of which 20,936 voted in the by-elections. The division of Jammu reported 82.29% and the division of Kashmir recorded 62.31%. Similarly, 59,71 per cent of the votes cast were registered in vacant Sarpanch…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman placed Forbes on the list of the 100 most influential women in the world for the second year in a row. U.S. Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris, Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HCL Enterprise CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra have also been named in the list headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the 10th year in a row. This year, Sitharaman is ranked 41st on the ranking. She was ranked 34 in 2019. “There are 10 Heads of State, 38 CEOs and five entertainers among them, but where they differ in age, nationality and job description, they are…
There are five modules in the Co-WIN app, Administrator Module, Registration Module, Vaccine Module, Beneficiary Accept Module and Report Module,” said Rajesh Bhushan. The Ministry of Health of the Union has established a digital portal, including a smartphone application, to track the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations in real time, to capture data and to enable people to enrol for vaccination. Addressing a press meeting on Tuesday, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the forum, The Co-WIN digital portal provides a free downloadable smartphone application that can help record vaccine results. You should log on it if you want a vaccine. There…
With the probabilities of a COVID-19 vaccine being available soon increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the mobile technology are going to be used for mass inoculation against the pandemic. Speaking at the India Mobile Congress, he said mobile technology has enabled benefits worth billions of dollars to succeed in the deserving and also helped the poor and vulnerable during the pandemic. “It is additionally with the assistance of mobile technology that we’ll start one among the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination drive,” he said. He didn’t provide details. Three leading coronavirus vaccine developers — Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca…
Kuwait’s Emir Sheik Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has appointed Sheik Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah as the next Prime Minister of the Country, state media says. He was also named by the Emir to form a cabinet and to provide a list of names for approval, the Xinhua News Agency quoted the state media article as saying. During a meeting with the emir at Bayan Palace, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah expressed gratitude for the appointment, reiterating commitment to the constitution and laws to serve the best interests of the country and citizens. On Sunday, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah submitted…