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In September 2020, a Punjab Govt report had suggested opening up farm markets beyond APMCs, inviting companies for contract farming

Modi govt's new farm laws offers the exact same reform Congress led Punjab Govt batted for in September 2020

Here is why Captain Amarinder Singh is suddenly appealing to farmers to not axe Jio towers

If the attack on telecom infrastructure of Jio continues in Punjab, the centre may be forced to send central forces to protect them

Producer Manish Mundra promises to donate Rs 1 crore for the construction of Ram Mandir

Manish Mundra has earlier made huge monetary donations to help people during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Farmer protestors in Uttarakhand run tractor over police barricades almost crushing police personnel

The person driving the tractor crushed the police barricading despite seeing police personnel standing next to it.

‘The Economist has always been anti-India’: NDTV’s Sreenivasan Jain again left red faced while peddling anti-Modi agenda, this time by HDFC Chairman

Sreenivasan Jain interviewed HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh in which he attempted to solicit a statement against the NDA Government.

Congress celebrates no new COVID patients in Dharavi, consider it Maharashtra govt’s achievement that 70% already got infected

Congress leader Milind Deora celebrates that 70% of residents of Dharavi are estimated to have already had COVID

Faizal Khan who had offered namaz inside Nand Baba temple granted bail, says the temple priest had given him permission

Faizal Khan claimed that he was allowed to offer namaz in the temple by the priest as the mosque was away.

Karnataka High Court orders SHO to clean road for failing to register FIR, cops to file appeal: Here are full details

The court observed that the problem, primarily, is one of the police officers not complying with the procedure prescribed under the Code of Criminal Procedure, which places a high premium on the guarantee of liberty of the individuals.

Was the resurrection of Jesus actually resuscitation? A Vedantic perspective on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Many believe that Jesus had fainted due to some liquid given to him, and therefore his resurrection was actually a resuscitation

‘Girls have also suffered’: Rohtak court dismisses appeal seeking actions against ‘Rohtak Bravehearts’ who had falsely accused 3 boys

When the video of the episode blew up in November 2014, the sisters were lauded and labelled as Rohtak Bravehearts by mainstream media especially Times Now

From MSP to APMCs, here are 5 lies about farm laws by opposition busted by PM Modi in his speech today

PM Modi today clarified rumours and misinformation surrounding the new Farm Bills while interacting with farmers in a virtual event after releasing the instalment of PM-KISAN to nine crore farmers via DBT.

Mumbai Police now accuses Republic TV of colluding with BARC to bring down Times Now ratings, the channel responds

'Mumbai Police is in the middle of a mindless farce of an investigation that has only one purpose: to try and target Republic TV', the channel said denying the charges

‘Farmers’ vandalise several Reliance Jio towers to ‘protest’ against farm laws, Punjab CM appeals for calm after fanning protests

The protestors of various farmers' union have shut the power supply to several Jio towers in the last three days in Punjab

The time when Balasaheb Thackeray regretted sending ‘idiot’ Pritish Nandy to Rajya Sabha

Balasaheb Thackeray and Pramod Mahajan were misled into believing that Pritish Nandy would uphold the party's beliefs.

Afghanistan arrests 10 Chinese citizens on charges of espionage, asks China to apologise

The arrested Chinese nationals were reportedly in contact with the Haqqani Network terror group.

After opposing reforms that free farmers from shackles of middlemen, Congress now sees middlemen in DBT payment to farmers

While opposing a law that seeks to remove middlemen from farm sector, Congress sees middlemen in DBT payments to farmers

Corona affects Hindus, Muslims have dua, don’t need vaccine: Kolkata’s Maulana Barkati

"Muslim community is not afraid of the virus and will not take the vaccine," said Kolkata Shahi Imam Maulana Barkati

Jimmy Dore sets the cat among the pigeons as Democrats and ‘Progressives’ bicker after comedian pushes ‘Force The Vote’ on ‘Medicare for All’

Jimmy Dore is one of the central figures of the 'Force The Vote' movement and is concerned with providing healthcare to all Americans.

UK police arrests three pro-Khalistani men accused of RSS leader’s murder in 2009

One of the accused Gursharanbir Singh Wahiwala is also accused of the murder of RSS leader Brigadier Jagdish Gagneja (Retd) in 2016.

Maharashtra: NCP Corporator’s husband Aziz Sheikh charged with committing robbery at factory headed by BJP leader

In a new turn in the robbery case at BJP leader's factory, NCP leader's husband Aziz Sheikh has been charged

Hyderabad: Superstar Rajinikanth admitted to hospital. Know why

Earlier on Wednesday, Sun Pictures informed on Twitter that the shooting of the movie 'Annaathe', featuring Rajinikanth, had been postponed after four crew members were diagnosed with Coronavirus.

PM Modi transfers Rs 18,000 cr to 9 cr farmers, busts propaganda by opposition parties on 3 farm laws

PM Modi released instalment of benefits under farmers scheme, amounting to Rs 18,000 crores that would benefit 9 crore farmer families

‘If APMC is so good, why not implement it in Kerala?’ PM Modi slams the opposition for hypocrisy on agriculture issues

PM Modi also exposed the hypocrisy of politicians from Kerala, a state that does not have the APMC law.

2.3 million voluntarily sign up at PM Kisan portal, even as Mamata Banerjee stalls scheme that could benefit Bengal’s farmers by Rs 9,800 cr

2.3 million Bengal farmers have voluntarily signed up to the ambitious central scheme, which has benefited 8.45 crore farmers so far

Child rescued in Uttar Pradesh after she was being forced into prostitution by relative Gulshan Bano

A joint team of police and Child Welfare Committee officials raided Gulshan Bano’s place and rescued the minor girl

After Kejriwal’s fake ‘house arrest’ drama, AAP takes their theatre to parliament, raises slogans at the central hall

On several occasions in the past, AAP supporters have pulled off such attention-seeking stunts to hog limelight and remain in news.

How Times of India and The Hindu turned ‘Haroon’, who posed as a priest, to a ‘Tantrik’ to secularise the crime

The Times of India, in its attempt to 'secularise' the crime, passed off the accused as a 'Tantrik', when it was, in fact, a man named Harun

Soon, it might be mandatory for restaurants and retailers to display whether they are selling Halal or Jhatka meat: Details

SDMC says intent of the proposals is not to ban Halal meat, but to enable people to make an informed choice of meat

Here is the truth behind the image of an old farmer, who according to Congress trolls and actor, died at farmers protest recently

The 2018 image was used to claim that an elderly farmer has died during the Delhi farmer protests.

Christmas, appropriation of pagan festival marked by violence against Jews, and why I am hurt as a Hindu: Time to reflect?

While coping valiantly with COVID, the beleaguered world is also busy planning New Year and Christmas celebrations

When Atal Bihar Vajpayee’s poem was brought to life by Shah Rukh Khan and Jagjit Singh on screen in 2002

Atal Bihari Vajpayee collection of poems, Samvedna, was converted into a music album by Jagjit Singh in 2002

Congress is ‘deeply disturbed’ by Delhi police searching premises of lawyer who had become ISIS poster boy

Manish Tewari stated that he is 'deeply disturbed' by the police raid on ISIS poster boy Mehmood Pracha. He even called the court warranted search 'arbitrary'.

West Bengal police unleash lathi-charge on BJP workers including women, more than 40 injured

More than 40 party workers, including several women workers, have reportedly been injured. BJYM Kolkata North Suburban District President Pintu Das also suffered injuries.

Fake TRP ‘scam’: Mumbai Police now arrests BARC CEO, days after it arrested their COO

Mumbai Police has now arrested Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC)'s former CEO Partho Dasgupta in TRP case

BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur has sent a legal notice to leftist troll Rachita Taneja: Here is why

The Bhopal MP has asked the 'cartoonist' to refrain from using the said website/domain name or any variant thereof in the name of Pragya Thakur.

‘People from Muslim community are threatening to kill me: Qasim receives death threats after voluntarily converting to Hinduism

28-year-old Muslim man by the name of Qasim Khan has been receiving death threats after he decided to convert to Hinduism

On his 96th birth anniversary: A look at 5 key steps undertaken by former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee that radically transformed India

25 December 2020 marks 96th birth anniversary of one of the most admired politicians in history of independent India — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

NDTV promoters caught again, after insider trading, Prannoy Roy and Radhika fined Rs 25 cr by SEBI in ICICI loan case: Read details

SEBI has imposed fines on NDTV and its promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy for "violating various securities" norms

Indian crew on two ships stuck for months at Chinese ports as China does not allow them to unload cargo

China has allowed the ships of other countries to unload at its port but has kept the Indian vessels waiting.

After getting banned for two years for failing dope test, Basketball Player Satnam Singh joins farmer protests

Last month, Singh was given provisional suspension after he failed an out-of-competition test conducted in Bangalore by NADA.

Meerut: Man gives Triple Talaq to his wife for refusing to dance and wear jeans, later sets himself on fire

The woman alleged that her husband often used to force her to wear jeans and dance which would lead to fight between them.

Begusarai: Mohammad Chotu enters house of a Hindu woman by jumping over a Mosque wall, attacks her with knife for resisting molestation

This is the second time when a youth has jumped over the wall of the mosque to break into the house of victim in Begusarai

Police arrests Haroon who fooled people by pretending to be a Hindu priest named Pandit Rahul Shastri

Haroon induced a woman to deposit an amount of Rs 85,000 to his account in exchange of performing a Shanti Yajna for her.

Amitabh Bachchan’s post on ‘Chai’ stirs up a storm, actor accused of plagiarism

Social media users accused Amitabh Bachchan of hypocrisy, because the actor had sent a legal notice to poet Kumar Vishwas for using his father's poem.

‘Nuns pimped out boys to Christian priests at sex parties, clergy paid them for allowing to rape children,’ victim narrates ordeal in Germany

The victim said before the court that the nuns were key in aiding the abuse of the children at the children's home in Germany

China’s information warfare: How Beijing uses censorship, disinformation and propaganda to control and influence domestic narrative

A primer into how the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) has been regulating the flow of information and distorting it with disinformation to maintain its preeminence.

Karnataka: Soyub Kotwal arrested for forcing Hindu girl to convert into Islam, sent vulgar messages on Instagram

Soyub Kotwal, who is an employee in the Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd, was arrested by Dakshina Kannada district police

“Sooar ki charbi haram hai”: Islamic organisations issue fatwa against coronavirus vaccines from China

Muslim scholars have called Covid-19 vaccine haram as it may have pork gelatin

From being in a ‘hurry’ to double farmer income to missing Sonia Gandhi’s NAC: Bizarre excuses Communists give to put farm laws on hold

The Hindu carried an opinion piece on farmer laws which had some of the most bizarre excuses for which the farm laws must be withdrawn.

Delhi Police raids office of Supreme Court lawyer Mehmood Pracha accused of forging affidavit and tutoring riot victims to lie

Mehmood Pracha is accused of forging affidavits and tutoring Delhi riot victims to give false evidence