Category: NATIONAL NEWS

BJP president JP Nadda on Wednesday asserted that the party is all set to notch up a big win in the 2022 assembly election in Uttarakhand on the strength of development works done in the state by the party’s double engine government. Addressing the party’s Shakti Kendra conveners and incharges across the state virtually, Nadda said booth level workers of the party play a crucial role in its electoral performances. He asked them to strengthen the party at the grassroots and exhorted booth level workers to connect with the masses…

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Several trains were cancelled, highways and key roads blocked and many thousands stranded for hours on Monday as a nationwide 10-hour shutdown against the Centre’s three agri laws disrupted lives across parts of India, particularly in the north. The 6 am to 4 pm Bharat Bandh, which saw demonstrations and rallies in many places, passed off relatively peacefully with no reports of injuries or serious clashes. The impact was felt the most around Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, the centre of the farm protests, and also in large…

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The Congress on Saturday extended support to the Bharat Bandh call given by farmer unions against the Centre’s three agri laws and demanded that discussions be initiated with the protesters. Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said the Congress party and all its workers will support the “peaceful Bharat Bandh on September 27, called by farmer unions and farmers”. “We demand that the due process of discussion with the farmers should be initiated because they are sitting on the borders of Delhi for last more than nine months. We demand that these…

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India added 26,115 new cases of coronavirus? infection in a single day taking the?total?tally to?3,35,04,534, while the active cases declined to 3,09,575, the lowest in 184 days,?according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday The?death toll climbed to?4,45,385 with 252?fresh fatalities,?according to the data updated at 8 am The active cases?comprise 0.92 per cent of the total infections,?the lowest since March 2020, the ministry said, adding the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.75 per cent A reduction of 8,606?cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19…

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With 30,256 people testing positive for coronavirus infection, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,34,78,419, while the active cases declined to 3,18,181, the lowest in 183 days, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 4,45,133 with 295 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. The active cases have declined to 3,18,181 comprising 0.95 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.72 per cent, the…

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Accusing the BJP of playing politics over the issues of Taliban, Afghanistan and Pakistan to garner votes, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday alleged that the seven-year-rule of the saffron party has brought miseries to the people of the country and left Jammu and Kashmir destroyed . She claimed that it is not Hindus but the democracy and India which are in danger under the BJP rule, which has undone all the good work of the past 70 years of the Congress and started selling national resources and raising the…

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