TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that she would contest West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Nandigram. Suvendu Adhikari has accepted the challenge thrown by Mamata Banerjee to contest from his Nandigram assembly seat, asserting to that he said 'i will defeat her in the election or quit politics'.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the grand old party will not relent till the three farm laws are repealed. Rahul who led the party's protest in the national capital in support of the agitating farmers, said that the farm laws are not to help farmers, but to finish them.
They will undergo a two-week quarantine as well as a throat swab test and an antibody test for Covid-19. They are to start working with Chinese experts via video conference while in quarantine.
The Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 13 approved a Rs 48,000-crore deal for the purchase of 83 Light Combat Aircraft Tejas from the HAL.
Farmer unions have turned downed the Supreme Court's proposal of discussing the issues concerning the three farm laws in a special committee. Farmer leaders refused to appear before the committee.
The Supreme Court on Monday heard a batch of petitions, including those filed by DMK MP Tiruchi Siva, RJD MP Manoj K Jha, challenging the constitutional validity of the three farm laws, passed by the Centre along with the plea to remove protesting farmers.
The eighth round of talks between three Union ministers -- Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal and Som Parkash -- and the 40 protesting farmer unions ended without any breakthrough on Friday.
A second dry run for COVID-19 vaccination will be held in all the states on Friday, sources have said. The first massive dry run was held on January 2.
The decisive mandate the BJP got in two consecutive general elections in 2014 and 2019 indicated voters' preference for political stability, according to former President Pranab Mukherjee.
England has gone under a new national lockdown as Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said the UK would remain under restrictions until at least mid-February, to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus.
The seventh round of talks between protesting unions and government ended inconclusively on Monday as the farmers remained adamant on the repeal of the three contentious farm laws. The next meeting has been scheduled for January 8.
An expert panel on COVID-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Friday recommended to grant emergency use authorisation for the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, being manufactured by Serum Institute of India, sources said on Friday.
India may begin vaccinating people against Covid-19 in January and the government’s first priority has been safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
The sixth round of talks between the government and farmers ended on a fruitful note on Wednesday. The Centre agreed on two of four demands raised by the farmer leaders while the remaining issues including that of the MSP will be discussed in a meeting scheduled on January 4, 2021.
Thousands of protesting farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at three Delhi border points - Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri - for over a month now demanding a repeal of three farm laws and legal guarantee for minimum support price.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Monday that his government has undertaken historic reforms in the farm sector to boost agriculture and strengthen farmers.
Protesters agitating against the new farm laws run a tractor over a police barricade in Bajpur, of the Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand
Delhi Police stopped the Congress convoy which was headed to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 24, and later detained party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Chanakyapuri's Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Pragya said that only the leaders with permission will be allowed to go the Bhavan. During the protest, Priyanka said, "Any dissent against this govt is classified as having elements of terror. We are undertaking this march to voice our support for the farmers. It is very clear that the government is not listening to the farmers. I think people have forgotten that it is a democratic country and the government should listen to the demands of the farmers." Later, Congress leader along with Priyanka Gandhi were detained by the Delhi Police.
9 Muslim organizations met on the news of the use of pig fat in the corona vaccine. In the meeting, the organizations decided that if there is any misunderstanding among the people about the vaccine, they would try to remove it.
Apart from the address, PM Modi also released a postal stamp to mark the occasion. This is the only second time a sitting prime minister of the country has been at the varsity in its 100 years of existence.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan during a press conference on December 21 on the new strain of coronavirus in UK urged people to not create panic. He said, "The government is alert. There is no need to panic."
Two decades before Modi government passed the new farm law to open up the agriculture market for private players, Punjab experimented with contract farming.
The Delhi Assembly on Thursday witnessed high drama as ruling Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tore copies of the three new agricultural laws against which thousands of farmers are protesting at several border points of the national capital city.
Visuals of an Adani Wilmar branding on an Indian Railways rolling stock took over social media on Wednesday, triggering theories of the privatization of the national carrier. Sharing the video on Facebook, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that "a large portion of railways will go to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's billionaire friends".
The farmers who met me today have supported the three farm laws. They said that they are with the bills and govt. As some farmers are spreading misconception so they were also misled. When I spoke to them they clearly supported the bills: Union Farmer Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
slogans calling for death to Prime Minister Narendra Modi were raised at the ongoing farmers’ protest. This comes on the heels of rising allegations that the protests are being hijacked by “anti-social” and “ultra-Left” forces.
The protesting farmers' unions are claiming to be politically non-aligned and fighting for the rights of the farmers, but a different reality emerges on a closer look.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation stone of a new Parliament building. The groundbreaking ceremony of the new Parliament building was attended by several leaders from various political parties, cabinet ministers and ambassadors of different countries.
"The government has tried to address the concerns of farmers with an open heart and with respect for the farming community of the country.
A nationwide strike called by farmer unions against the Centre's agri laws was underway on Tuesday with rousing speeches and sloganeering at Delhi's border points amid tight security arrangements, even as most of the city's markets remained open.
How Congress, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena are opposing the very same farm laws which they had wanted to enact. Watch Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma for more details.
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