Narendra Modi

Stop foundation-laying ceremony for new Parl building, divert funds for people’s needs: CPI MP to PM

8:14 pm December 8, 2020

New Delhi: CPI MP Binoy Viswam Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop the December 10 foundation stone-laying ceremony for a new Parliament building and suspend the overall Central Vista project, and divert the fund to ”more important and pressing issues that the country faces”. In a letter to the prime minster, Viswam said that carrying out such […]

Farm laws will benefit farmers, govt will handle agitations: Tomar to delegation of pro-legislation peasants

11:58 pm December 7, 2020

New Delhi: As thousands of farmers camped on Delhi’s borders seeking repeal of three new farm laws, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday told a group of peasants backing these legislations that these measures will benefit the peasantry and the agriculture sector and that the government will handle such agitations. The delegation of 20 “progressive farmers” from Haryana, […]

Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin for 45-plus age group: Atishi

Bharat Biotech seeks emergency use authorisation for indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin

11:51 pm December 7, 2020

New Delhi: After Pfizer and Serum Institute, Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech on Monday applied to the central drug regulator seeking emergency use authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, official sources said. Covaxin is being indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). On December 4, Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an all-party meeting had expressed hope that a […]

Sushil Modi gets elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha

11:45 pm December 7, 2020

Patna: Former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi was on Monday declared elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha in a by-poll that was necessitated by the death of Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party founder Ram Vilas Paswan. Modi was handed over his certificate in presence of a host of dignitaries including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, with whom the […]

Farm laws will benefit farmers, govt will handle agitations: Tomar to delegation of pro-legislation peasants

11:03 pm December 7, 2020