Indian farmers protest 2020 India’s Supreme Court has put on hold three contentious farm laws that have sparked weeks of protests. Farmers have been camped at the borders of capital Delhi since 26 November to protest against laws that will further open up agriculture to the free market. At least four farmers at the protest […]
A night at India’s largest farmers’ protest click on below link to see detail video A night at India’s largest farmers’ protest India’s largest farmers’ protest is still under way – tens of thousands of farmers have been on strike since 26 November demanding the repeal of recent laws that they say will shrink […]
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States, a court in London has ruled. The judge blocked the request because of concerns over Mr Assange’s mental health and risk of suicide in the US. Mr Assange, who is wanted over the publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011, says […]
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW (Reuters) – Over 100 retired senior civil servants and diplomats urged the Hindu nationalist leader of Uttar Pradesh state to repeal a new law criminalising forced religious conversion of brides, warning in an open letter that it risked fuelling communal tensions. Although no religion is specified in the legislation, critics say […]
A bench headed by justice Sanjay K Kaul held that there is no prohibition against recovering dues including penal rent — the rent with penalty for overstaying in official accommodation — from an employee’s gratuity. Utkarsh Anand Hindustan Times, New Delhi The gratuity money of an employee can be withheld and forfeited for recovery of dues […]
US President Donald Trump has pardoned his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, ex-adviser Roger Stone and the father of Mr Trump’s son-in-law. Mr Manafort was convicted in 2018 in an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Mr Trump had previously commuted the prison sentence of Mr Stone, who was convicted of […]
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday started hearing petitions challenging Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s sudden dissolution of parliament and call for fresh elections, a move denounced by his opponents as unconstitutional. Oli’s decision, the culmination of months of political turmoil in the Himalayan country situated between China and India, has […]
By Aditi Shah, Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Cairn Energy has won an international arbitration case against the Indian government over a tax dispute, ending one of the country’s highest-profile disputes, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Cairn took the case to arbitration in 2015 to fight against a demand in […]
The letter said that as economists who have engaged for long with issues of agricultural policy, they believe that the farm laws are not in the best interests of the small and marginal farmers of the country, and about which a broad section of farmer organisations have raised very critical objections. By: Express News Service | […]
His Excellency Narendra Modi Hon’ble Prime Minister of India connect@mygov.nic.in narendramodi1234@gmail.com pmh7lkm@gov.in 18th December 2020 Concern: Call to End Impunity on crime against Indian journalists in India Your Excellency, We are writing as Journalists Federation […]
