In focus, 29th Dec 2020, News & Stories from India

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29 Dec 2020

In focus, 29 Dec 2020

Naser Banaqeeb Talks About His Latest Novel 'Three Last Wishes'

The Hyderabad-based writer made his debut with the novel 'Theft of Nizam’s Gold'

29 Dec 2020 8:57 PM

Does horoscope help in selecting career and profession: Dr. Vinay Bajrangi

A careful analysis of the Tenth House of your horoscope is the pillar planet that we see for your career selection

29 Dec 2020 8:50 PM

The mother of all moral policing

Singer Neha Kakkar’s publicity picture flaunting a ‘baby bump’ has showed up people’s regressive views about premarital pregnancy

29 Dec 2020 5:04 PM

2020, their lucky year

While 2020 has been relentless in pushing many to the corner, it has blessed many a comeback

29 Dec 2020 4:39 PM

So far, five rounds of formal talks held between the Centre and the 40 protesting farmers’ unions have been inconclusive (Image:PTI)

Centre invites 40 farmers’ unions for talks tomorrow

Government has used vague and unspecific language, indicating its unwillingness to discuss the full agenda items proposed by farmers: AIKSCC

29 Dec 2020 4:47 AM

The corporate groups are not in charge of how much of its agriculture and dairy India can export. It is the government that will have to force other nations to open their markets to our farmers (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Farmers won’t put trust in PM, dharna unlikely to be over soon

Agriculture exports fell from $43 billion in 2013, before Mr Modi, to $38 billion last year

29 Dec 2020 4:35 AM

After the start of the driverless services on the Magenta Line (Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden), the Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) will have driverless operations by mid-2021 (Image:PTI)

PM Modi launches driverless train

India’s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line

29 Dec 2020 4:33 AM

“I had no desire to become the chief minister. I accepted the offer due to the pressure, but I had earlier said the BJP could make its chief minister as the people’s mandate was clear”, Nitish Kumar said (Image:PTI)

Nitish: Accepted CM post due to BJP pressure

The development in Arunachal Pradesh will not affect the NDA in Bihar: Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi

29 Dec 2020 4:33 AM

The effort is to check roll-out procedures, preparedness, cold storage, transportation arrangement and management of possible adverse events after vaccination etc

Center starts vaccine dry run in four states

India on Monday recorded a 7 per cent jump in daily fresh cases with 20, 021 new detections as overall cases of COVID-19 crossed 1.02 crore

29 Dec 2020 4:19 AM

To make farming profitable, two things need to happen. One is that fewer people be involved in it, and the other is that farm produce gets higher prices (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers’ stir link with rural distress tenuous

The suicide rate in India, an agrarian economy, was 13 per 100,000, the rate in industrialised, rich countries was often higher

29 Dec 2020 4:06 AM

Out of the total towers impacted, 25 had been damaged, allegedly by some farmers and their supporters in violation of the directions given by farmers' unions to keep their protests against the farm laws peaceful (Representational Image:DC)

Over 1,500 mobile towers targeted during farmers' stir in Punjab

Chief Minister Amarinder singh issues stern warning against vandalisation and disruption of telecom services

29 Dec 2020 2:13 AM

South Korea reported 808 new cases Monday, raising its national total to 57,680 with 819 deaths (Image:AP)

South Korea detects first coronavirus variant cases

The new strain, which experts fear is more contagious, prompted more than 50 countries to impose travel restrictions on Britain

29 Dec 2020 1:35 AM

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