Written by Mohammed Ghazali | Tuesday September 29, 2020, Chandigarh
The Haryana government has to care about the farmers of Haryana and "don't have to worry about other states", Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said earlier this month, refusing to procure crops from other states. Mr Khattar's video statement, being widely shared on social media, is contrary to the idea of the contentious farm laws which promise barrier-free trade at markets and prices of the farmer's choice.
Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday September 29, 2020, New Delhi
A 20-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh has died in Delhi nearly two weeks after she was gang-raped and tortured, allegedly by four men from her village in Hathras. The woman had been in an extremely critical state with multiple fractures and her tongue had been cut.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and BJP's Bihar election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis on Monday took a jibe at Tejashwi Yadav's promise of 10 lakh government jobs and said that the RJD leader will buy 10 lakh country-made firearms and distribute them among his supporters and promote kidnappings, looting and robberies in the state.
In a major move, India has done away with offset requirements for government-to-government defence deals and single-vendor contracts under a new policy unveiled on Monday for the procurement of arms and military platforms for the armed forces, officials said.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar has complained that the Mamata Banerjee government is pulling the purse strings for the Raj Bhavan expenses so tight that he may not be able to offer biscuits with tea to the media at the next press meet.
ANI | Tuesday September 29, 2020, Chandigarh (Punjab)
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday termed the sit-in protest at Khatkar Kalaan by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh as "shameful political nautanki".
Former Union minister and senior BJP leader Uma Bharti, who tested positive for COVID-19 recently, was on Monday admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Rishikesh.
With over 82,000 new patients, the coronavius cases in India crossed 60 lakh-mark on Monday, data from the health ministry showed. The death count from the highly contagious virus climbed to 95,542 with 1,039 more fatalities.
Edited by Aman Dwivedi | Tuesday September 29, 2020, New Delhi
Google on Tuesday paid tributes to iconic Indian actress and stage artist Zohra Sehgal. The special Doodle, that showed the legendary actress as dancing, was made by Google guest artist Parvati Pillai.
Four persons, including two siblings, who were cleaning a trench died, apparently due to suffocation, in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, police said.
Eighty-nine doctors of the Yavatmal Zilla Parishad on Monday tendered their resignations claiming ill-treatment at the hands of district collector MD Singh, a functionary of a medical officers' association said.
The Shimla-Chandigarh National Highway number 22 was blocked after a major landslide occurred in Himachal Pradesh''s Solan district on Monday, police said.
A farmer was arrested on Monday in Indore in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly shooting dead a dog after getting enraged over its continuous barking near his house, police said.
Farmers from Uttar Pradesh were stopped from entering Haryana's Karnal district on Monday to sell their paddy crop at government-run mandis (wholesale markets), despite the controversial farm bills having been signed into law on Sunday night.
