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New Delhi, Feb 4: Delhi Police have filed a case against Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg over her tweets supporting the farmers' protest. Popular artist Rihanna tweeted on February 2 about the farmers' protests ongoing in New Delhi for 71 days, asking "why aren't we talking about this?" A day later, young climate activist Greta Thunberg took to Twitter to extend her support to farmers in

Microblogging site Twitter on Thursday removed some of the tweets of Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut on farmers' protest. The move comes a day after the actor went into a rampage on Twitter over pop singer Rihanna's recent post on farmers' protest at the Singhu border in Delhi. "This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules," the company said. Rihanna on February 2 tweeted

New Delhi, Jan 3: Farmers' agitation sites just outside Delhi resemble "international border" now with authorities building makeshift walls, planting huge metal spikes on roads and deploying concertina wire fences, protesters alleged on Wednesday, even as officials defended the heavy-barricading citing law and order issues. The heightened security measures and various restrictions have been

New Delhi, Feb 2: Multiple factors may have contributed to India reporting higher Covid-19-related deaths per million population than other South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, the government said on Tuesday. According to Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey, the comparison of deaths per million might not be apt as there were factors such as varied

New Delhi: A day after Union Budget 2021, Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy posted a photo on Twitter comparing India’s fuel prices with that of neighbouring Nepal and Sri Lanka. Swamy who is known for no-nonsense approach when it comes to expressing his views wrote,“Petrol Rs 93 in ram’s India, Rs 53 in Sita’s Nepal and Rs 51 in Ravan’s Lanka”. Clearly, Subramanian Swamy is not happy with the

New Delhi, Feb 2: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the government over barricades and road blocks set up at farmer agitation sites on Delhi's borders, and asked the Centre to "build bridges and not walls". Farmers' protest sites at Delhi's borders have turned into fortresses with police beefing up security and strengthening barricades. Iron rods have been hooked between two rows of

New Delhi, Feb 2: Opposition parties including the Congress, Left, TMC and DMK on Tuesday walked out from Rajya Sabha after their demand for suspension of business of the day to take up a discussion on the farmers' agitation was rejected by the Chairman. The opposition parties had given notice under rule 267 calling for the suspension of business of the day to take up discussion on the ongoing

New Delhi, Feb 2: Farmer unions on Monday announced a countrywide 'chakka jam' on February 6 when they would block national and state highways for three hours in protest against the Internet ban in areas near their agitation sites, harassment allegedly meted out to them by authorities, and other issues. Union leaders told a press conference at the Singhu Border, on the Haryana side, that they will

Feb 2: A mammoth spending plan of almost $500 billion announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is expected to jump-start growth in an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic, but may not be enough to make a dent in the rising unemployment and poverty India has battled. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday unveiled a national budget that will cause the fiscal deficit to

New Delhi, Feb 1: For every rupee in the government coffer, 53 paise will come from direct and indirect taxes, 36 paise from borrowings and other liabilities, 6 paise from non-tax revenue like disinvestment and 5 paise from non-debt capital receipts. According to the Union Budget 2021-22 presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, goods and services tax will