Farmers protest

New Delhi: Yog Guru Baba Ramdev has made an appeal to the government to resolve the situation of the farmers’ protests by suspending the farm laws for a duration of three years. He said he only wishes for peace between the farmers and the Centre. Baba Ramdev was attending the wedding of a businessman in Samalkha, Haryana, when he decided to talk about the ongoing farmers’ protests. He said that he does not intend to be a spokesperson for the government or a contract farmer, but he wants to see improvement in this case. Ramdev has appealed to the central government that the new farm laws should be postponed for three years and the farmers should sit with the government and discuss the policies of interest of the farmers and the country. He pointed out that neither the government is ready to settle nor the farmers, but this deadlock must end. “There is a middle ground in every problem,” he said. Ramdev also said that the government had already spoken about not ... » Learn More about Centre should suspend farm laws for three years to stop farmers’ protests: Baba Ramdev

Labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur was on Friday released from a Haryana jail after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted her bail in a case in which faces charges of attempt to murder, rioting among others, in an incident at Haryana’s Kundli of Sonipat district. The 24-year-old activist, who was in the Karnal jail, was released after the bail order. Her counsel Arshdeep Singh Cheema told The Hindu that she was released late in the evening. She was arrested by the Sonipat Police on January 12. Also Read Who is Nodeep Kaur, and why was she arrested? Earlier in the day, Justice Avneesh Jhingan observed in his order that while dealing with the bail application, it would not be appropriate for the court to go in detailed discussion with regard to merits of the allegations. “The contentions are being considered only for purpose of deciding grant of bail. As per the case of the petitioner, she was heading a peaceful protest for getting wages of the workers. On ... » Learn More about Nodeep Kaur released from Haryana jail

Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra on Thursday attended a strategy meeting of leaders from Uttar Pradesh to start the process of building a people’s manifesto. Members of the manifesto committee will visit Bahraich this weekend for wider consultation and feedback. Ahead of the Assembly elections in the State next year, Ms. Vadra has stepped up her efforts to revive the party in the politically crucial State where the party has been struggling to make a presence in the past three decades. On Thursday, members of the Outreach Committee including former Union Minister Salman Khurshid, spokesperson Supriya Shrinate and others met Ms. Vadra. In the past few weeks, she has been attending and addressing kisan mahapanchayat in Western U.P. to connect with farmers protesting against the new farm laws for three months now. From attending a prayer service at Rampur in memory of the farmer who had died during the January 26 tractor rally violence to addressing farmers at Mathura ... » Learn More about People’s manifesto: Priyanka Vadra attends U.P. strategy meet

A court in New Delhi on Thursday granted protection from arrest till March 9 to Shantanu Muluk, who is accused along with Disha Ravi in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a "toolkit" on social media related to the farmers' protest. IMAGE: Activists stage a protest over arrest of Disha Ravi in the toolkit case, in Thane, on Thursday. Photograph: PTI Photo Muluk along with Ravi and another co accused Nikita Jacob, was booked for alleged sedition and other charges. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana granted the relief after Delhi police said it needed time to conduct further interrogation before filing a detailed reply to Muluk's anticipatory bail plea. The judge directed the police not to take any coercive action against Muluk till March 9, when court will further hear the matter. Muluk had got transit bail from Bombay High Court on February 16 for a period of 10 days, with a direction to approach the court concerned. In his ... » Learn More about Toolkit case: Shantanu granted protection from arrest till March 9

Ahmedabad: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said there should be less burden on consumers and both the Centre and states should talk with each other over reducing taxes on diesel and petrol whose prices have risen sharply in recent times. Asked if the Centre is mulling to reduce cess or other taxes on fuel to give some respite to consumers from high prices of diesel and petrol, she said the question has put her in "dharm-sankat" (dilemma). "No hiding of the fact that the Centre gets revenue from it. Same is the case with states. I agree that there should be less burden on the consumers. "For that, both the Centre and states should talk with each other (for reducing central as well as state taxes on fuel)," she said during an interaction with the students of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA). Earlier in the day, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said there is a need for coordinated action between the centre ... » Learn More about Centre, states should talk on reducing fuel prices: Nirmala Sitharaman

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J P Nadda took a swipe at the Maharashtra government on Monday, saying it has a unique model of governance that hails "noises of anarchy" from overseas but "harasses" patriotic Indians who stand for the nation. His tweet against the Maha Vikas Aghadi came after Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said the state intelligence department will conduct a probe into allegations that some celebrities were pressured recently to issue tweets in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest. READ | Maharashtra to probe celebrities tweets over farmers' protest following Congress' allegations "MVA in Maharashtra has a unique model of governance - hail noises of anarchy from overseas who show India in poor light but harass patriotic Indians who stand for the nation. It is difficult to decide what is more flawed: their priorities or their mindset?" Nadda said in his reaction. MVA in Maharashtra has a unique model of governance - ... » Learn More about Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra hails noises of anarchy from overseas, harasses patriotic Indians: BJP president J P Nadda

Aprameya Radhakrishna, the CEO and co-founder of Koo app, is a 2008-batch student of IIM Ahmedabad’s MBA General Management programme Koo app, the indigenous ‘Twitter’ that was designed to promote the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, has an Ahmedabad connection. One of its founders Aprameya Radhakrishna is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad which groomed him for his entrepreneurial journey. Radhakrishna pursued MBA General Management from the institute. Koo, which has crossed 4.2 million app downloads, was founded by Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka, an alumnus of Asian Institute of Management, in March 2020. “We started Koo because we wanted to democratise voices from India which has so many languages. We believe in humanity and are against anything that divides us,” he said. The duo had initially thought of naming it Kuhu but “it wouldn’t roll off the tongue easily because of two syllables”. So, they decided to name it Koo – the sound of a sweet ... » Learn More about HOW KOO-L! IIMA ALUMNUS BEHIND INDIA’S ATMANIRBHAR ANSWER TO TWITTER

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India on Friday said proper procedure laid down in the extradition treaty between India and the UAE was followed in the extradition of Christian James Michel, accused in the AugustaWestland case. “The extradition was done entirely in accordance with the provisions of the Extradition Treaty signed between the two sovereign states. The arrest and subsequent custody were done as per the due process of law and cannot be considered arbitrary on any grounds,” said the Ministry of External Affairs in a statement after the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UN WGAD)said Michel, a British national, was “arbitrarily detained” by India. UN WGAD also accused the United Arab Emirates of “unlawfully” arresting him. The UN WGAD referred the matter to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture for further action. He had been detained in conditions that could only be described as being in flagrant breach of the fundamental guarantees under national and international law, and breached the ... » Learn More about Procedure followed in Christian Michel’s extradition: India