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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

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

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 IST

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...

29 Dec 2020 1:35 AM IST

The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2020 Wave 1), released online late last month, reaffirms a positive trend: households in India, both rich and poor, are pinning their hopes on education as a passport to upward mobility, even in the times of Covid-19. (Representational Image: AFP)

Online tests for centre government recruitments

The government also came out with a format to file complaints with the anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal

28 Dec 2020 11:42 PM IST

Rise of the new stars

These outstanding actors made us sit up and take notice in 2020

28 Dec 2020 5:18 PM IST

$After nearly a weeks delay and under pressure from all sides, President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill December 27, the White House said, extending benefits to millions of Americans struggling through the pandemic. The package \providing coronavirus emergency response and relief\ is part of a larger spending bill that, with Trumps signature, will avoid a government shutdown. (AFP)$ World

Trump finally signs massive coronavirus relief and spending package...

He had been under growing pressure from both sides of Congress to sign the bill

28 Dec 2020 11:13 AM IST

Kashmir looks ahead at a winter of discontent

Force has never worked in Kashmir, nor has our muscular policy since the abrogation of Article 370

28 Dec 2020 4:55 AM IST

Arif Mohammad Khan, just like other governors of the Indian republic, seems to care more for the interests of central government than the Constitution (Representational Image:PTI)

By not letting Assembly meet, did Arif fulfil governor's role?

The Constitution gives no discretion to the governors in the matter of convening the session of the Assembly

28 Dec 2020 4:28 AM IST

Nitish Kumar who was appointed as the JD(U)s national president in April 2016, announced his decision to step down from the post on Sunday following the norms of one leader one post (PTI)

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar steps down from the post of JD(U)...

RCP Singh's name for the post was proposed by Nitish Kumar during the JD(U) national executive meeting

28 Dec 2020 4:24 AM IST

Farmers beat utensils as a protest against PM Modis Man ki Baat programme, during their ongoing agitation over new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. (PTI)

Protesting farmers beat 'thalis' during PM Modi's 'Mann Ki Baat' radio...

At many places, farmers, joined by people from other sections of society, raised slogans against the BJP-led government...

27 Dec 2020 8:48 PM IST

mar Abdullah, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir speaks after a press conference at his residence, in Srinagar on December 26, 2020. (AFP)

Fresh arrest spree in J&K; Omar Abdullah accused govt of facilitating...

In past one week, about 100 political activists have been taken into preventive custody' across the Union Territory

27 Dec 2020 10:46 AM IST

AIMIM President and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi addresses media persons on Bihar election results at his residence in Hyderabad, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. (PTI)

AIMIM to contest Bhopal civic polls

The party has registered with the Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission as the first step

27 Dec 2020 8:53 AM IST