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Farmers during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Aakar Patel | Will Centre be forced to give in to the farmers?

Notice the similarities between the farmers' movement and the protests across the country against the citizenship...

8 Dec 2020 8:39 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being briefed during a visit to the Bharat Biotech facility to review the development of indigenous COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin, on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Saturday, November 28 (PTI)

AA Edit | Govt needs to do more to push vaccine awareness

It looks like the government has taken one area for granted -- public awareness about the vaccine

8 Dec 2020 7:26 AM IST

Farmers raise slogans during their ongoing agitation against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. (PTI)

Prominent opposition leaders issue joint statement backing farmers'...

The representatives of thousands of agitating farmers have said that the countrywide strike on Tuesday would be observed...

7 Dec 2020 12:06 PM IST

The United States plans to distribute 6.4 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the first week after it is cleared for emergency use. (Representational Image:AFP)

Serum Institute applies for emergency use authorisation for COVID-19...

The Pune-based company has collaborated with Oxford University and pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca for making the...

7 Dec 2020 11:49 AM IST

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at the Queen theater on December 4, Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Manish Tewari | Biden in Afghanistan

Biden inherits. In a piece in the Foreign Affairs magazine in spring, Biden stated: It is past time to end the forever...

7 Dec 2020 9:39 AM IST

An NHS pharmacy technician simulates the preparation of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, during a staff training session ahead of the vaccines rollout next week, at the Royal Free Hospital in London on December 4. (Yui Mok / POOL / AFP)

Kishwar Desai | After vax first, will lucky Boris' swing Brexit deal?

The triumph of UK being first in the world among the vaxxers' did not go down well with everyone

7 Dec 2020 8:59 AM IST

Farmers carry an effigy during their ongoing Delhi Chalo agitation against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi on Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

AA Edit | To end farm stir, PM must signal shift in govt stand

If the proposed strike is met with repression in the smallest degree, the next meeting is unlikely to take place

7 Dec 2020 7:23 AM IST

NCP chief Sharad Pawar will remain in home quarantine for next few days. (PTI Photo)

Pawar warns Centre of larger farmers' protest if concerns not...

The NCP chief is also scheduled to meet President Ram Nath Kovind on December 9 over the ongoing farmers' protest

7 Dec 2020 5:19 AM IST

Supporters participate in Dharam Sabha, being organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to push for the construction of Ram temple on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)

VHP threatens to 'beat up' Hindus if they visit church for Christmas

Nath said he was 'outraged' over the alleged shutting down of Vivekananda Centre in Christian-majority Meghalaya state's...

6 Dec 2020 9:06 AM IST

Representative Image (PTI)

Shashi Warrier | Let 'Em Eat Cake!

The purpose of governance in India is to create and manage queues. Where there are queues, there are people willing to...

6 Dec 2020 7:40 AM IST

Telangana State BJP President Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy along with other leaders celebrate the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election results in Hyderabad on Friday December 4 (PTI)

Sriram Karri | Hyderabad-Bhagyanagar face-off ends in uneasy stalemate

The Bhagyanagar reference resonates strongly amongst both its supporters and opponents

6 Dec 2020 7:16 AM IST

Union Minister for Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar addresses media representatives as MoS for Commerce Som Prakash looks on after a meeting with farmers over the new farm laws, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (PTI)

Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Tomar meet PM Modi ahead of farmer-govt...

Farmers are scheduled to meet Union ministers for fifth-round of talks on the new farm laws this afternoon

5 Dec 2020 1:17 PM IST