India

NEW DELHI: Defending the Centre’s three recent agriculture legislations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that ever since the laws came into force no agriculture ‘mandi’ has been shut anywhere in the country and added that the minimum support price (MSP) system has remained in place.

NEW DELHI: Farmers participating in the ongoing protests against newly enacted three agri laws were not summoned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the government told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday slammed Congress for misleading the people by lying about the new farm laws pointing that the party is losing its support base.

NEW DELHI: More than 6.76 lakh people have renounced Indian citizenship in five years since 2015 while another 1.24 crore Indians are living in foreign countries, the Ministry of Home Affairs informed Lok Sabha on Tuesday. This was disclosed in a written reply by Minister of State for Home Nityanand …

NEW DELHI: Another accused in the January 26 Delhi violence case, Iqbal Singh, was arrested by a Special Cell from Hoshiarpur in Punjab on Tuesday night, the Delhi Police informed.

NEW DELHI: India has been consistently following a declining slope of active cases. The country’s active caseload has dropped to 1.41 lakh (1,41,511) today. The present active cases now consist of just 1.30% of India’s Total Positive Cases.

NEW DELHI: Police sought in a Delhi court on Tuesday 10-day custody of actor-activist Deep Sidhu, arrested in connection with the Red Fort incident during the Republic Day violence amidst farmers’ protest against three new agri laws.

NEW DELHI: As many 9,110 COVID-19 cases and 14,016 discharges were reported in India in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Tuesday.

CHANDIGARH: Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu has been arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police on Tuesday on charges of instigating violence during the tractor rally on Republic Day.

NEW DELHI: Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement on the Minimum Support Price (MSP) in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said, “They (Centre) are complicating the matter, when did we say that the MSP system is ending, we only want a law …