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Lucknow, Dec 13: A public interest litigation (PIL) petition has been filed before the Allahabad High Court challenging the constitutional validity of Uttar Pradesh government's ordinance against religious conversions. The court is yet to admit the plea. An advocate, Saurabh Kumar, has moved the court stating that the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, is

New Delhi, Dec 12: The Election Commission has sought views of recognised national and state parties on what should be the limit of expenditure for candidates contesting Lok Sabha and assembly polls. In a letter sent out on December 7, the commission asked parties to send their "views and suggestions" on as to what should be the ceiling limit of election expenditure for candidates for Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Dec 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured farmers on Saturday that reforms in the agrarian sector were aimed at helping them as thousands of farmers continued protests against three new laws to overhaul procurement and sale of produce. "Recent farm reforms will give farmers new markets, access to technology and help bring investments in agriculture that will benefit farmers," he said

New Delhi, Dec 12: As the protest by the farmers, camping at the Delhi borders, against the Centre's agricultural reforms has entered its 17th day today, Congress leader Kapil Sibal said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi never listens to the grievances of the farmers. "Agitating Farmers; Prime Minister says:'Say something and listen to something (kuchh kahiye kuchh suniye);Since 2014 Modi ji:'You

New Delhi, Dec 12: Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan attended the 'Cancer Awareness Program' organised by the Centre for Indian studies-Kuwait via video conferencing on Friday and said there exists great scope for both countries to increase collaboration in the field of health and medicine. Vardhan tweeted, Indian diaspora has been the torchbearer of humanitarian principles propagating our

New Delhi, Dec 13: With 30,254 new COVID-19 infections reported in the last 24 hours, India's total cases have risen to 98,57,029, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). With 391 new deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the toll has mounted to 1,43,019. The total number of active cases is at 3,56,546 while the total discharged cases are at 93,57,464 with 33,136 new

Mumbai, Dec 11: India moved down seven spots in the global home price index to 54th rank in the third quarter (July to September) against 47th rank in Q3 2019 with a decline of 2.4 per cent year-on-year in home prices, Knight Frank said on Friday. In the performance compared to previous quarter (Q2 2020), the ranking remains unchanged to 54th spot among the 56 countries and territories tracked in

New Delhi, Dec 10: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday had a telephonic conversation with Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and thanked him for taking good care of the Indian community during COVID-19. Taking to Twitter, Jaishankar said he and Mohammed bin Abdulrahman discussed the follow up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim

New Delhi, Dec 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the new Parliament building would become a witness to the creation of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' (self-reliant India) and fulfill the aspirations of 21st century India. Speaking at the foundation-laying ceremony of new Parliament building, the Prime Minister said that inauguration of the construction work of the new Parliament House

Kolkata, Dec 10: BJP President JP Nadda's convoy was allegedly attacked on Thursday and several BJP leaders including Kailash Vijayvargiya were injured when protesters pelted stones at their vehicles at West Bengal's Diamond Harbour. "Mukul Roy and Kailash Vijayvargiya were injured in the attack today. It is a shame on democracy," Nadda said. "There isn't a car in our convoy which was not attacked