Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Congress said Wednesday that the January 26 violence during the tractor rally in the national capital was a planned conspiracy to smear the peaceful farmers movement. Congressional spokesman Randeep Surjewala blamed the Union Interior Minister Amit Shah for the violence that took place yesterday and called for his resignation. Earlier today, the Aam…
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NEW DELHI: Peasant leaders protesting are considering postponing their march on foot to Parliament on February 1 against the three farm laws in the wake of violence in the national capital during the tractor parade on Republic Day. A senior farmer leader said that Samkyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is a coordinating body of protesting…
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BALLIA: BJP Uttar Pradesh MLA Surendra Singh accused party MP Virendra Singh Mast of land grabbing and said she will sit on a 101-hour fast for common sense to prevail in Ballia MP and District Magistrate . The Bairia legislator has also alleged that District Magistrate HP Shahi was working under pressure from the MP….
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CALCUTTA: Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui, the influential cleric of the Muslim shrine Furfura Sharif, who has muddied the political waters of West Bengal with the launch of the Indian Secular Front (ISF), feels that the government of Mamata Banerjee has done more harm than good to the Muslims by creating a Hindu-Muslim divide. The 34-year-old cleric…
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NEW DELHI: China on Wednesday opposed India’s decision to continue to ban 59 Chinese mobile apps, saying the action violates the World Trade Organization principles of non-discrimination. In response to the media inquiry, the spokesman for the Chinese embassy in India, Councilor Ji Rong, urged the Indian side to immediately correct what he called “discriminatory…
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NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, farmers’ organization Samyukta Kisan Morcha alleged that “antisocial” elements such as actor Deep Sidhu tried to “torpedo” its peaceful agitation under a conspiracy, but claimed they will not allow “the government and other enemy forces of the movement peacefully break this fight. ” The morcha, which represents 41 farmers’ unions, has…
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NEW DELHI: Daily Covid-19 cases recovered in India have been outpacing new daily cases for the past 20 days, while total active cases amount to 1.76,498, accounting for only 1.65 percent of the total infections, said the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. Cumulative recoveries have increased to 1,03,59,305 with 13,320 patients discharged within 24 hours….
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will purchase 2-3 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from its Indian manufacturing company Serum Institute of India over the next two days, a senior Sri Lankan official said here on Wednesday. Lalith Weeratunga, an adviser to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said the purchases from India will follow the arrival of free vaccines from…
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NEW DELHI: An Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) study on Covaxin shows comparable neutralizing activity from individuals vaccinated against the UK variant strain. The ICMR National Institute of Virology scientist performed the plaque reduction neutralization test using sera collected from 26 recipients of the Bharat Biotech coronavirus vaccine (COVAXIN) against the UK variant strain….
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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Wednesday recorded FIR 22 in connection with the violence that took place during the farm tractor rally on January 26. The protest sparked violence in various parts of the national capital on Tuesday. Farmers broke barricades to enter Delhi and vandalized various parts of the city during their parade. Several…
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