West Bengal Governor targets police over NIA arrests, calls approach to law and order ‘ostrich stance’

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday said that the state has become "home to illegal bomb-making" and the administration cannot escape its accountability for the "alarming decline" in law and order. His comments came after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested nine terrorists associated with a Pakistan-sponsored module of the al-Qaeda from several locations in West Bengal's Murshidabad and Kerala's Ernakulam early on Saturday.

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Opinion | Modi’s three farm bills are definitely pro-farmer

Doubts and apprehensions are being created in the minds of farmers by vested interest groups and some political parties, mainly the Congress, over three farm bills passed by Parliament this week. While some farmers’ organizations have given a call for ‘Bharat Bandh’ on February 25, several political parties and their farmers’ wings have already launched protests in different states. Shiromani Akali Dal, an ally of BJP in NDA, has opposed the bills and its minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has resigned from the cabinet.

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Adityanath promises country's ‘most beautiful and biggest' film city in Noida, orders land hunt

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday announced to set up the country's "most beautiful and "biggest" film city in the state’s Gautam Buddh Nagar. He also instructed officials to search for a suitable land in or around Noida, Greater Noida or Yamuna Expressway and prepare an action plan

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97 people died while travelling on Shramik Special trains during lockdown: Piyush Goyal

The government has informed the Rajya Sabha that 97 people died on board the Shramik Specials, admitting for the first time that migrant labourers lost their lives in the trains which were run to ferry them during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Downward trend in Delhi's COVID-19 positivity rate in last few days: Jain

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday said there has been a downward trend in COVID-19 positivity rate in the national capital and it will lead to good results by next week. "The positivity rate was 6.76 per cent on Friday. It has remained below 7 percent in the last two-three days. Last week, it was around 8 per cent," he said. The cumulative positivity rate has also dropped below 10 per cent for the first time, Jain said.

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Four members of family found dead in their house in Rajasthan

Bodies of four members of a family were found hanging at their house in Rajasthan's Jamdoli area on Saturday, police said. Police suspect that it is a case of death by suicide. The deceased were identified as Yashwant Soni, Mamta Soni and their children Bharat and Ajit.

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India overtakes US to bag top spot in terms of COVID-19 recoveries

"In a landmark global achievement", India has overtaken the US and become the top country in terms of COVID-19 recoveries, the health ministry said on Saturday. The country has reported the highest number of recoveries with 42,08,431 COVID-19 patients having recovered from the disease so far, pushing the national recovery rate to nearly 80 per cent, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 1.61 per cent, the ministry said.

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