Category: NATIONAL NEWS

“A firm alternative course should be made as nobody is fighting against ongoing fascism,”Mamata Banerjee said. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – seen as making a beeline for the political space occupied by the Congress – today indicated that she is visualising a fresh opposition line-up for the next general elections. And this, she made clear, is being done because “nobody is fighting against the ongoing fascism”. “What is UPA? There is no UPA,” Ms Banerjee declared after her meeting with Nationalist Congress chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai this afternoon. …

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Farmer leaders from Punjab also said that the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the future course of action. Terming the repeal of the farm laws in Parliament a victory of the protesters, farmer leaders from Punjab urged the Centre to decide on their other demands, including legal guarantee of minimum support price for crops, in the session on Tuesday. They also said that the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the future course of action.…

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be on a three-day visit to Mumbai from tomorrow, during which he is scheduled to meet Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar and her Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray. She is also expected to meet industrialists in Mumbai on December 1 and invite them to Bengal Global Business Summit, to be held in April next year. “Mamata Banerjee will be on three-day…

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Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from the ESI Hospital at Rajajinagar in Bengaluru. Nearly a year and a half after they lost their loved ones to Covid, two families in Bengaluru have received news that’s as painful as their loss — the bodies have been rotting for over a year in the hospital’s mortuary. Durga Sumithra, 40, and Muniraju, in his 50s, died on July 2 last year, as per documents from Employees’ State Insurance Corporation and Model…

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Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said the samples have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. A passenger back from South Africa has tested positive for a Covid strain “different than Delta”, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said today and added that the state government is closely looking at the new ‘Omicron’ strain that has set off alarm bells across the country. The test samples, he said, have been sent for genome sequencing for further examination, he said. This comes after two South African nationals…

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The Delhi Assembly on Friday suspended BJP MLA Jitender Mahajan from its one-day special session and also marshalled out BJP legislators Anil Bajpai and Mohan Singh Bisht for allegedly disrupting the proceedings of the House. Other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs walked out of the House to boycott the proceedings in support of their suspended and marshalled out colleagues. As soon as the proceedings of the special session began, the BJP MLAs demanded to be heard on various issues such as the new liquor policy, rising air pollution in the…

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Hundreds of farmers in tractors started arriving at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border as Friday marked one year of the ongoing farmers’ protest against the central laws. Many of them brought along vegetables, sacks of flour and lentils, spices and cooking oil on their tractor-trollies, saying they have come prepared for a long haul. Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), an influential farmers’ union from western Uttar Pradesh, has been leading the charge at the Ghazipur border since November last year. The BKU is part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM),…

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Mukul Sangma said it was election strategist Prashant Kishor who approached him to join the Trinamool. The two sides held multiple rounds of talks and it was a “long-drawn task”. The Congress has been going into electoral battle cavalier attitude without the drive to win, former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma told NDTV on Thursday, detailing why he and 11 other MLAs switched to the Trinamool Congress. “We (the Congress) go to electoral battle not to win. It is ‘Chalta hai’ attitude with which we go,” Dr Sangma said, explaining…

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“The days when areas were developed first, and then a need was felt to have connectivity, are long gone,” Jyotiraditya Scindia said. Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia supported the choice of Jewar for Uttar Pradesh’s next international airport, saying it will bring development to the area. Critics have slammed the choice of location — more than 75 km from Delhi in Gautam Budh Nagar, one of the remote corners of the district that is being developed as an industrial hub. “The days when areas were developed first, and then a need…

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A new variant of COVID-19, feared to have a high amount of spike mutations unseen before, has been detected in South Africa and other counties. India on Thursday called for rigorous screening and testing of fliers coming from South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana where a new variant of COVID-19 has been found with multiple mutations that have led to a surge in infections. In a letter to states and union territories, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan asked them to ensure that samples of travellers turning positive are sent to…

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