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7 months of farmer protest: Leaders in no mood to relent, say will end stir if agri laws repealed

11:57 pm June 26, 2021

New Delhi: As their agitation completed seven months, farmer leaders on Saturday stuck to their demands, saying they will call off their protest if the government repeals the three farm laws even as Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar appealed to them to end their stir and offered to resume talks. Yudhvir Singh, general secretary of Bhartiya Kisan Union, an umbrella body […]

1 dead, 3 critical after taking pills from suspected health worker

11:13 pm June 26, 2021

Erode: A woman died while her husband and two others are battling for life after taking tablets given to them by a person suspected to be a volunteer from the Health Department to find residents suffering from symptoms of Covid-19. The incident happened at K G Valasu village in Erode district on Saturday. This morning, the person entered the house of […]

MP: Sunday ‘corona’ curfew to be lifted as pandemic under control now, says CM

10:16 pm June 26, 2021

Bhopal: With Madhya Pradesh recording a steady decline in COVID-19 cases, the state government has decided to lift the “corona curfew” on Sundays, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Saturday. However, the night curfew will remain in force in the state. Chouhan also said Madhya Pradesh has set a record for one more time with 9,64,756 doses of vaccines being administered till […]

Sisodia visits govt school in Delhi’s Kohat Enclave to inspect development work

10:07 pm June 26, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday visited Government Girl Senior Secondary School (GGSSS) here at Kohat Enclave and instructed officials to start the work for building a sports complex within the school premises. The new sports complex, which will include a swimming pool, tennis courts and badminton courts, will ”prepare future sports medalists”, Sisodia said. ”Sports are […]

Mukul Roy gets elected as WB PAC member

12:00 am June 26, 2021

Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Mukul Roy was elected unopposed as a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal Assembly on Friday despite opposition by the BJP over his nomination as he was elected as an MLA on a saffron party ticket. Roy was among the 20 MLAs who had filed nominations […]