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The Congress leader, who has been criticised for going on leave in the midst of the farm laws protests, an issue he feels strongly about, is showing his support to the cause of farmers by attending a Jallikattu event.

The statement was made by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare in an affidavit which was filed hours after the apex court pulled up the Centre for its handling of the farmers protest.

Citing the largescale protests undertaken by various farmer unions that have seen thousands of farmers protest at the borders of Delhi for over 40 days, the three Rajya Sabha MPs raised the issue with the chairman of the standing committee.

The report quotes Jiang Chunlai from Jilin University's School of Life Sciences, who had visited Bharat Biotech, as saying: "Despite India's reputation for generic drugs, the country is not behind China in vaccine R&D."

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The government strategy is to keep giving dates, Gandhi alleged, as the government announced that the next round would be held on January 15.

After due process, he was handed over by the Indian Army to the Pakistan Army, the source added.

Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind said it wishes to raise the issue of fundamental rights of Muslim youth, who are being targeted and demonised by using the ordinance which itself is unconstitutional, being violative of Articles 14, 21 and 25.

Former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri's grandson Sanjay Nath Singh also suggested ways to the Centre that might help in negotiating with the protesting farm unions in the next round of meeting to be held on January 8.

The common Central Secretariat is likely to be built by 2024 under the project against which various pleas have been filed.

The trust, represented by advocates Vishal Gosain and Neeha Nagpal, told the bench that the Supreme Court had in 2015 and 2016 ordered setting up of a Undertrial Review Committee (UTRC) to consider cases of UTPs who were entitled to benefit of section 436...

Vardhan, who also holds the charge of Union Health Ministry, said new diagnostic tests can detect the virus within minutes.

International demand for Indian goods rose in December, but the growth was hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, new export orders increased at the slowest pace in the current four-month sequence of expansion.

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The victim was identified as Neeraj, the brother-in-law of the MP’s private assistant Anup Kumar Singh, the official said, adding when the police reached the spot, the victim’s body was lying on the floor with an electric wire tied to his neck.

The searches were conducted under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the residential premises of K Subbaraj, chairman of Tiruchirappalli-based Cethar Ltd, its managing director K Pothiraj and director of NSK Builders Pvt Ltd N...