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The Civil Aviation Ministry had last week suspended all flights between the European country and India from December 23 to December 31 as a mutated variant of the coronavirus was detected there. (AFP)

India-UK passenger flights to remain suspended till January 7

Twenty people who returned to India from the United Kingdom have tested positive for the new UK variant of COVID-19 so...

30 Dec 2020 11:55 AM IST

Farmers during a protest against the three agri laws at the Ghazipur-Delhi border on Monday. (PTI)

Protesting farmers take a hard stand ahead of next round of talks

The unions have deferred their proposed tractor march till Thursday, so that the rally does not clash with their talks...

30 Dec 2020 11:17 AM IST

Raj Mohan Tella | Are smart words keeping you company?

Words, narratives and the meanings associated with them all are important to brand messaging

30 Dec 2020 7:36 AM IST

Aijaz Hussain (C), the BJP candidate for the District Development Council (DDC) polls celebrates after he won a DDC seat in Srinagar on December 22, 2020. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)

Anand K Sahay | After DDC: Will Centre further alienate J&K?

Much sought success in the BJP's bid to seek to stamp its political authority in J&K through the DDC polls failed to...

30 Dec 2020 7:16 AM IST

K Chandrasekhar Rao said he will ensure that demand for raising quotas was accepted if people elected TRS candidates from all 17 Lok Sabha seats of Telangana next year. (Photo: PTI)

Salary hike for Telangana government employees; retirement age to be...

The Chief Minister declared that recruitment of vacant posts in all government departments and agencies would be done...

30 Dec 2020 2:40 AM IST

Municipal workers in personal protective equipment look on as passengers from United Kingdom arrive at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, in Mumbai (PTI)

Six UK returnees test positive for mutated COVID-19 strain

Under the new circumstances, ban on incoming flights from the UK is likely to be extended for a few more days

30 Dec 2020 12:40 AM IST

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...

29 Dec 2020 4:47 AM IST

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...

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

29 Dec 2020 4:35 AM IST

PM Modi launches driverless train

PM Modi launches driverless train

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

29 Dec 2020 4:33 AM IST

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 peoples 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 IST

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...

29 Dec 2020 4:19 AM IST

o 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...

29 Dec 2020 4:06 AM IST