Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, a body that brings together protesting unions, called a meeting later Wednesday to discuss the violence that erupted during the farm tractor parade in the national capital. Before the Morcha meeting, representatives from 32 Punjab unions will also gather at the Singhu border, a major protest site against the three…
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NEW DELHI: Peasant leaders have alleged that Punjabi singer and actor Deep Sidhu instigated protesters and led them to the iconic Red Fort and raised flags at the 17th century monument. Famous for his role as a gangster in the Punjabi film ‘Jora Das Numberia’ in 2018, the 36-year-old was one of the first celebrities…
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NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet meeting is scheduled for Wednesday via video conference. “The meeting of the Trade Union Cabinet will take place today at 10:30 am by videoconference,” said an official. The meeting is scheduled to take place after the agricultural tractor demonstration that caused violence in various parts of the national capital on…
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NEW YORK: “Withdrawal.” A single word in a thick bureaucratic file on the seventh day of the Biden administration was a huge victory for the spouses of workers on H-1B visas in the US who have spent the past four years worrying that their work authorizations were eliminated. The latest development ends years of efforts…
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Protests by farmers and their supporters against agricultural marketing laws were generally peaceful in states such as Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. In Karnataka, there were concentrations of tractors of various sizes in support of the protest in Delhi. Members of about 50 teams participated in a demonstration in Bengaluru involving 125 tractors and other…
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NEW DELHI: Robust ambulance services and highway patrol teams can dramatically reduce road deaths, as was evident in Tamil Nadu, where road traffic fatalities fell by 54% in 4 years, from 17,218 deaths in 2016 to 7,287 in 2020. Eager to adopt the Tamil Nadu model, Maharashtra announced on Tuesday that it would implement it….
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the coronavirus it is mutating in a way that it spreads easily. Rapid vaccination it’s our best chance to prevent dangerous mutationsOn January 8, a worker at a nursing home in Ontario, Canada, tested positive for the coronavirus. In the following two weeks, 127 of the 129 residents of the residence became ill and 32…
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NEW DELHI: The world is poised to defeat the coronavirus pandemic by adopting preventive, proactive and collaborative strategies to combat the virus, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Tuesday. “I am grateful to the member countries that despite the great disparity in their epidemiological trends, we are about to defeat the pandemic by adopting preventive,…
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Was a Khalistani flag raised at the Red Fort? No, it was a Sikh flag that is found in every gurdwara and people almost invariably carry it during religious processions. In gurdwaras, it is hoisted to a height with a ‘khanda’ (a double-edged sword). The flag flies on top of it and is called Nishan…
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NEW DELHI: A new report highlights that women are likely to be the hardest hit by job losses during the pandemic because so much of their job it is invisible and they are likely to work in informal work arrangements. An Oxfam India report: “The Inequality Virus” in a Livelihoods section is based on reports…
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