Shiromani Akali Dal quits BJP-led National Democratic Alliance over farm bills

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said that over the last two months, the party had been trying to draw the Centre’s attention towards farmers’ problems.

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· 3 hours ago

Farm bills: Farmers in Punjab continue protests, say Opposition is not instigating them

Demonstrations also took place in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala and Karnataka as part of the ‘Bharat Bandh’ call given by farmer unions.

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· 5 hours ago

Top 10 coronavirus updates: Where is the UN in joint fight against pandemic, asks Narendra Modi

A look at the biggest Covid-19 developments of the day.

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· 5 hours ago

Chhattisgarh: Journalists attacked by alleged Congress leaders in Kanker

Kamal Shukla said that the aide of the local Congress MLA entered the police station he had gone to and waved a pistol at him.

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· 6 hours ago

‘Does India have Rs 80,000 crore available to fund Covid-19 vaccine,’ asks Serum Institute CEO

Adar Poonawalla said there was a need to plan and guide vaccine manufacturers both in India and abroad for the purposes of procurement and distribution.

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· 6 hours ago

Adivasis are being made the scapegoat for the industrial-scale felling of trees along Betwa river

The dusty, drought-prone region was once covered with dense jungle where leopards, tigers and antelopes roamed.

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· 7 hours ago

Covid-19: As largest vaccine producer, India will help world fight virus, says PM Modi at UNGA

The prime minister also asked where the United Nations was in the joint fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

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· 8 hours ago

How a secret wave of early South Asians found a home in America long before the H-1B immigrants

Scroll.in speaks to Vivek Bald, author of ‘Bengali Harlem’ which tells the stories of South Asians who migrated to the states between the 1880s and the 1950s.

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· 8 hours ago

Economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Padma Bhushan awardee, dies at 74

In August, Ahluwalia stepped down from the chairpersonship of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations after 15 years.

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· 9 hours ago

Covid-19: Plea to order Delhi CM to stop publication of case data based on religion dismissed

The bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah said that the grievances expressed in the plea had already been taken care of.

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· 9 hours ago

Bihar polls: Social media platforms will be held responsible if they fail to stop misuse, says CEC

Sunil Arora also asked political parties to sensitise their candidates against ‘malpractices, malicious propaganda and instances of hate speech’.

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· 10 hours ago

Case filed in Mathura court on behalf of child deity Krishna to remove mosque adjacent to temple

The suit claimed that the mosque was erected on the birthplace of Krishna by encroaching upon temple land.

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· 11 hours ago