Uttarakhand’s industrial department would soon set up export hubs across all 13 districts to promote local products and give them a bigger market in the country and abroad, said officials. As per the initiative, the export hubs in each district would sell some specific products from each district where their […]
‘Haste’: Pawar underlines why govt is facing outrage from farmers
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said the government is facing problems due to the farmers’ protests because they hastily passed the farm bills and chose not to listen to the concerns raised by the Opposition during the Monsoon Session of Parliament in September. “When Bill was being […]
Clashes mar outreach programmes of BJP, TMC in poll-bound Bengal
Clashes have marked the outreach programmes launched by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier this week in poll-bound West Bengal. Violence have been making headlines ever since the BJP emerged as the ruling party’s principal adversary during the panchayat polls in 2018. The clashes peaked around […]
Fierce three-cornered contest in Kerala local body polls
Kerala is witnessing a fierce three-cornered contest in local body elections, considered a semi-final before the assembly elections due in April. Stakes are high for all three major players – ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA.) The first phase […]
Queen Elizabeth, 94, to be among first to receive Covid-19 vaccine in UK
Queen Elizabeth, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are expected to be among the first to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, whose first consignment has arrived in the UK and is set to be administered first to those above the age of 80 from Tuesday. Anti-vaccine claims on social media and elsewhere […]
Joe Russo teases ambitious plans for Extraction franchise
Quickly after its release in April, Extraction became Netflix’s most watched original movie ever, and a sequel was promptly greenlit. Now, co-writer and producer Joe Russo — best known for directing the third and fourth Avengers movies with his brother Anthony — has given an update about Extraction 2. In a virtual appearance at […]
‘BR Ambedkar’s thoughts, ideals continue to give strength to millions’, says PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remembered Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, on his 64th death anniversary and said his thoughts and ideals still give strength to many. Every year, this day is observed as the Mahaparinirvana Diwas. “Remembering the great Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on […]
20 people injured in cylinder blast in Mumbai’s Lalbaug area; 2 fire brigade, 2 tankers on spot
At least 20 people were injured on Sunday in a cylinder blast in Mumbai’s Lalbaug area. Two fire brigade and two jumbo tankers are currently present on the spot, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Bharat Bandh on Dec 8: Farmers get support from Left parties, trade unions
As the fifth round of talks between the farmers and the government remained inconclusive on Saturday, farm union leaders have said the Bharat Bandh announced for December 8 will go as planned despite repeated assurances from the Centre regarding resolving issues concerning the farm bills. Farmers are protesting the Farmers’ […]
China prepares large-scale rollout of Covid-19 vaccines
Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said Thursday during a U.N. meeting, […]
Kerala CM alleges Congress-led UDF and BJP have ‘secret’ alliance for local body polls
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has accused that Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and BJP are in mutual understanding to help each other in local body elections. Addressing a virtual rally on Saturday in the run-up to local body election in the state, Vijayan said that Left Democratic Front (LDF) […]
At Uttarakhand wedding, top cop administers Sanskrit pledge to follow Covid-19 guidelines
Superintendent of police of Bageshwar district in Uttarakhand administered a pledge in Sanskrit to guests at a wedding function to fight Covid-19 pandemic through adherence of disease containment guidelines. SP Manikant Mishra arrived at the wedding to check if the Covid-19 guidelines issued by the administration for holding such functions […]
Diljit donates Rs 1 crore for protesting farmers
Actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh joined the farmers’ protests at the Delhi border on Saturday, and urged the government to meet their demands. He is also said to have donated Rs 1 crore to purchase warm clothes for the protestors. Diljit has been a vocal supporter of the farmers, who are protesting and […]
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will take the first woman to moon’s surface
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024. “This (BE-7) is the engine that will take […]
Govt denies official error behind Chhattisgarh farmer’s death, BJP targets CM
A 45-year-old Chhattisgarh farmer allegedly died by suicide in Bastar’s Kondagaon district, officials said on Saturday. His family members claimed that the farmer was worried about selling his paddy crops cultivated over six acres of land after learning that the maximum area of his farm under paddy production was written […]