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Punjab

President Kovind must not sign farm bills, says Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday urged President Ram Nath Kovind to not sign the agriculture reform bills that were recently cleared in the Rajya Sabha, saying the Centre is misleading farmers of the country. We urge the President...

India’s nominal GDP to grow 19 per cent in 2022, finance ministry pins hopes on reforms

Finance ministry has estimated that India’s nominal GDP will grow by 19 per cent in nominal terms in financial year 2021-22, reported Mint. Nominal GDP is an assessment which includes the current prices of goods and services in its calculation.“There...

24 MPs test positive for Covid-19 on first day of Parliament’s monsoon session

At least twenty-four members of the Parliament tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on the first day of the monsoon session, secretariat officials told Hindustan Times on Monday. Junior railways minister Suresh Angadi, the BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant...

Delhi Metro to resume normal operation timing from tomorrow

From Saturday, September 12, all trains on all lines of Delhi Metro will resume the pre-Covid timing of the operation from 6 am to 11 pm. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation resumed its services on September 7 in a phase-wise...

Woman e-rickshaw driver ferries Covid-19 patients free of cost in Bengal’s SiliguriI was ready to face all consequences to support the work of my...

At a time when news of ambulance drivers refusing to carry Covid-19 patients and charging exorbitant rates from families are common, a 48-year-old woman e-rickshaw driver in north Bengal has been braving all odds and ferrying such patients to...

New satellite imagery suggests China developing missile bases to cover Doklam, Naku La

Open source satellite imagery suggests China is developing two new air defence positions that cover sensitive stretches of the disputed border in the Doklam and Sikkim sectors, including an area where Indian and Chinese troops had clashed in May. The...

Influence of dictatorship on country’s democracy rising: Sonia

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday alleged that anti-national and anti-poor forces were spreading hatred and venom of violence in India and the influence of ‘tanashahi’ (dictatorship) on the country’s ‘lokshahi’ (democracy) was rising. She also said that the founding...

Pakistan hackers target personal website of MoS G Kishan Reddy, now temporarily unavailable

The personal website of minister of state (home) G Kishan Reddy -- kishanreddy.com -- was targeted by self-claimed Pakistani hackers. The website was hacked on Independence Day and the hackers had put messages related to Free Kashmir, Pakistan, and...

Pandit Jasraj’s body being brought back from New Jersey, says granddaughter Shweta Pandit

Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj’s body is being brought back to India for last rites, his granddaughter Shweta Pandit said on Tuesday. The classical vocalist did in New Jersey on Monday. He was 90. Shweta told Bombay Times in an interview, “Dadu’s body is being...

Backed by ISI, Haqqani Network is making a game-changing move in Afghanistan

The Pakistani deep state is pushing the Haqqani Network to increase its stake in so-called Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) to retain its leverage on Afghanistan irrespective of the on-going peace process and maintain plausible deniability in future...

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Who is Ken Urker? Gypsy Rose Blanchard dating ex-fiance again days after splitting from husband

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is back together with her former fiance Ken Urker, a TMZ report has claimed. This comes after...