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Karnal, Sep 7 : After reaching Karnal’s mini-secretariat, farmers have staged a ‘dharna’ (sit-in) protest in front of the district administration building, here on Tuesday.On their way to the secretariat, some protesters also removed a barricade obst…

New Delhi, Sep 7 : Development funding for projects tackling air pollution accounts for less than one per cent of total aid spending worldwide, despite a 153 per cent rise in deaths caused by outdoor air pollution in aid recipient countries between 1…

New Delhi, Sep 6: When at the end of a 17-year-long mass movement Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah replaced Maharaja Hari Singh as Jammu and Kashmirs ruler, it was not an abrupt transition from autocracy to democracy.The states first free and fair elections we…

New Delhi, Sep 6 : Irwin Allan Sealy’s “Asoca”, an imagined memoir of Ashoka The Great, the emperor who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent and played a pivotal role in the spread of Buddhism from India to other parts of Asia in the 3rd century BC,…

Chandigarh, Sep 6 : Ludhiana district in Punjab has achieved the highest ever vaccination against Covid-19 on a single day with 131,993 doses, an official said on Monday.Lauding the feat achieved on Sunday, Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma s…

New Delhi, Sep 5 : An Indian filmmaker’s documentary about pollution caused due to cement plants in the erstwhile forested areas of Meghalaya has bagged the first place at the ‘2021 Yale Environment 360 Video Contest’.The documentary titled “The Stor…

New Delhi, Sep 5 : India reported 42,766 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the total infection to 3,29,88,673, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.Kerala continued to witness an increase in the Covid cases.The state a…

Hyderabad, Sep 5 : With both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana sticking to their stand over sharing of river waters, no end appears in sight to the water war between the two Telugu states. The walkout of Telangana from the Krishna River Management Board (…

In a remarkable show of convergence of defence, diplomacy and intelligence India has under the direct guidance of Prime Minister, successfully handled the challenge of evacuating its citizens from the trouble-torn Afghanistan in a situation where Kabul…

Mumbai, Sep 4 : Healthy portfolio as well as general FDI capital inflows are expected to further boost India’s foreign exchange reserves in the coming weeks.Accordingly, the portfolio equity capital is attracted to India on the prospects of faster ec…