Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:01:59
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who gained prominence in 2017 as the military general who announced the coup against then-president Robert Mugabe on television, has died from COVID-19, the government announced on Wednesday. He was 61.
Moyo, previously little known to the public, became the face of the coup when he announced that the military had placed Mugabe under house arrest as th
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Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:52:30
The government on Wednesday offered to amend the three contentious farm laws at their 10th round of talks with protesting unions but farmer leaders stuck to their demand for a complete repeal of the Acts and alleged that the Centre was avoiding discussion on a legal guarantee for MSP.
Farmer leaders said there was no breakthrough in the first session as both sides were stuck on their stated pos
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Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:49:45
British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi has raised the issue of National Investigation Agency (NIA) sending notices to a number of people who are associated with the farmers' stir in New Delhi.
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Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:33:37
The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its 2018 verdict upholding the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but striking down some of its provisions, including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar, by a majority of 4:1, rejected the review pleas again
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Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:31:19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an all-party meeting on January 30 during which the government will put forth its legislative agenda for the Budget session of Parliament, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday.
He said the meeting would be held virtually and an invitation had been extended to floor leaders of all parties.
An all-party meeting is a customary pr
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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:19:49
India on Tuesday announced that it will supply COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles from Wednesday.
The Ministry of External Affairs said India will supply COVID-19 vaccines to partner countries over the coming weeks and months in a phased manner keeping in view the domestic requirements.
It said India is awaiting confirmati
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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:09:24
The Karnataka government will present the state budget in the first week of March. Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said he is assessing the current financial condition and weighing various apects before allocating grants to different heads.
Speaking to reporters in Kundapur here on Tuesday, the CM said that timely and bountiful rains in the state ensured good fortune for the farming community.
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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:05:50
Terming the BJP as more dangerous than the Maoists, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the saffron party of making false promises to the people before elections.
The TMC supremo, whose party is witnessing an exodus ahead of the assembly elections due in April-May, asserted that politics is a solemn ideology and philosophy and one cannot daily change ideologies like cl
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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:03:29
For someone who led India to one of their greatest ever series wins, Ajinkya Rahane was at his modest best at the end of it all, saying he looked good as a leader because everyone else contributed.
Rahane and Virat Kohli are contrasting personalities but the former did remarkably well in galvanising the squad after the regular skipper headed back home on paternity leave following the debacle in
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