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2020
december
Dispatches
In talks with farmers, Centre agrees to put on hold electricity Bill and withdraw some provisions in NCR air quality ordinance; both sides to meet on January 4
Dispatches
Trinamool MPs write to President seeking removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
India
‘We have only one demand: Repeal the farm laws,’ says Satnam Singh Pannu
Dispatches
Amartya Sen writes to Mamata Banerjee expressing his ‘deep appreciation’ for her support in the land controversy in Santiniketan
Dispatches
Rajinikanth says no to politics, two days before he was expected to announce launch of his party
Dispatches
Central government approves Rs.59,000 crore for the Post Matric Scholarship scheme for Scheduled Caste students
India
Hannan Mollah: ‘The poor farmers know they have no other option but to peacefully protest as long as they can’
India
The duplicity of the farm laws, or how they do not help farmers
Dispatches
Farmer organisations refute Prime Minister’s comments on Kerala with hard facts and fix December 29 for the seventh round of talks
Dispatches
‘This is evidence of uncivilised behaviour,’ says Nobel laureate Amartya Sen as the BJP’s West Bengal unit targets him over an issue involving land in Visva-Bharati University
Dispatches
‘Modi government’s vendetta politics in Kashmir must end,’ says National Conference leader Salman Sagar
Dispatches
Armed with facts, unrelenting farmers counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charge that opposition parties are misleading them
Dispatches
Rajinikanth hospitalised in Hyderabad while shooting for his next movie “Annathey”, barely a week before he is expected to announce the launch of his political party
Dispatches
A decade after riding to power on the wave of resentment created by the Left Front’s move to acquire land in Singur for the Nano project, Mamata Banerjee plans to set up an industrial park at the same village
Conservation
Captive-bred white-rumped vultures released into the wild in Haryana
Conservation
Researchers find that vultures in India are still in danger from the NSAID diclofenac
Dispatches
As the government plans to sell its entire stake in the Shipping Corporation of India, Vedanta and DP World are among prospective buyers
India
Kapila Vatsyayan and the IGNCA
Dispatches
The National Conference-led Gupkar Alliance takes a big lead in the District Development Council elections in Jammu and Kashmir dashing the BJP’s hopes of building an alternative to the regional parties.
Dispatches
A CBI Special Court finds Father Thomas Kottoor and Sister Sephy guilty of murder in the sensational Sister Abhaya case of 1992
Dispatches
The number of protesting farmers at the protest points around Delhi swells even as the unions reject another set of eight proposals put forward by the government
Dispatches
Ambedkar University Delhi on the boil as 17 Deans and Directors write a letter to the Vice Chancellor, voicing concerns about her style of functioning and the disregard for the reservation policy in the admission process
Dispatches
Wearing masks made mandatory in Maharashtra for six more months
Dispatches
Protesting farmer leaders send an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urging them not to discredit the farmers’ protest by spreading disinformation and rejecting the ‘assurances’ given by the government
Health
COVID-19 patients are being treated with drugs such as itolizumab even though there is insufficient evidence on their efficacy against the disease
Dispatches
As the Enforcement Directorate attaches properties of Farooq Abdullah, the National Conference and other parties in Kashmir decry the ‘vendetta politics’ of the Central government
Dispatches
Suvendu Adhikari, former Trinamool heavy weight and Cabinet Minister, joins the BJP in the presence of Amit Shah along with several lawmakers and grassroots leaders
Dispatches
Farmers reject Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s proposals even as Supreme Court upholds their right to protest
Dispatches
Citizens for Justice and Peace, an NGO, files a writ petition against the ‘love jehad’ laws of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the Supreme Court
Dispatches
Suvendu Adhikari resigns from the Trinamool Congress and may join the BJP on December 19 in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah
Dispatches
Farmers’ agitation: Eminent economists write to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar seeking repeal of new farm laws
Dispatches
Allegations of ‘voter suppression’, and attacks on political leaders and journalists by militants and security forces mark the seventh phase of DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir
Dispatches
Trinamool heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari resigns as MLA and is expected to join the BJP along with other disgruntled Trinamool leaders
Dispatches
A few months ahead of the Assembly elections, the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front scores an emphatic victory in Kerala’s local body elections
Dispatches
Maharashtra to review and redraft the Shakti Bill that proposes fast-tracking of trials for rape and other crimes against women and severe punishment for sexual offenders
Dispatches
After a Twitter spat on repayment of loans by Maldives, Zhang Lizhong, the Chinese Ambassador to Maldives, and Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of the country’s Majlis, make conciliatory gestures
Dispatches
A convoy of BJP leaders J.P. Nadda and Kailash Vijayvargia attacked allegedly by Trinamool activists in West Bengal
Dispatches
Farmers reject the government’s amendment proposals, announce fresh round of protests against the farm laws
Dispatches
Protests erupt in Kerala over the Central government’s decision to name the second campus of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram after RSS ideologue M.S. Golwalkar
Dispatches
Home Minister Amit Shah calls for a late night meeting with farmer leaders after the Bharat Bandh’s widespread success but the stand-off continues as the government refuses to repeal the farm laws
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