Cows in Uttar Pradesh will now get special coats to save them from the winter chill. The Animal Husbandry Department of the state has asked veterinary officers in various districts to ensure proper protection for cows in state-run cow shelters during the winter months.
A four-year-old boy has died after coming under the wheels of a truck in Jharkhand''s Koderma district, police said on Thursday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's much-anticipated participation at the prestigious Oxford Union Debate in the UK was cancelled, hours before it was scheduled to begin, after the debating society sought to postpone it citing “unforeseen circumstances”. The address was to be held virtually, as per reports. At the time of writing, no clear reason has been made available by either the Oxford Union or Mamata Banerjee's camp for the sudden postponement. 
Delhi BJP MP and former president of the party's state unit Manoj Tiwari on Wednesday claimed that the so-called "tukde tukde gang" was trying to turn the farmers' stir at the national capital's borders into a Shaheen Bagh like protest. Shaheen Bagh in South Delhi was the hub of the agitation against the citizenship amendment act earlier this year, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
With 35,551 new infections reported in 24 hours, India’s Covid-19 caseload on Thursday surge-past the 95 lakh-mark, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease has inched closer to 89,73,373 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 94.11 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
The owner of famous masala brand MDH Dharampal Gulati passed away on Thursday morning. He was 98-years-old. Popularly known as 'dalaji' and 'Mahashayji', Dharampal Gulati was called 'King of Spices'.
Thousands of farmers, particularly from Punjab and Haryana, have gheraoed Delhi for the last one week. They are holding sit-ins at borders to press the Centre to fulfill their demand of making the Minimum Support Price (MSP) a legal provision in the new farm laws. There have been two arguments about the laws – while the government is claiming that it will benefit the farmers in monetary terms by removing the middlemen, the farmers have a contrary view. Punjab and Haryana farmers are opposing the laws, terming them against their interest as it will dismantle the MSP structure and thus putting the community at risk. Besides, they believe that the laws will give power to corporates over their lands. Farmer unions are also quoting Bihar’s example where the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) system was done away with in 2006 to allow the farmers to sell produces outside designated mandis in the state. There have been different arguments whether this benefited the farmers of one of the country's poorest and most backward states. Going by the data, this experiment didn't transform the lives of the farmers but ensured better prices. The state also failed to attract private investment even after 15 years of the abolition of APMC mandis, thanks to the poor governance model which is in place for the last nearly four decades. So, it is an important lesson and unfair for the farmer unions and others to compare Bihar's scenario with that of Punjab and Haryana. The new Central laws also seek to provide for trading areas outside the mandis and this has been a source of anger among Punjab and Haryana farmers. The basic argument put forth by the government is that mandis of an Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee impose charges which ultimately reduce the price realization of farmers. The government wants to check this commission which is charged by intermediaries. But the farmers are not ready to buy the government’s arguments.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
