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New Delhi, Sep 24 : The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020 which seeks to provide autonomy to India’s 12 major ports and vest the administration, control and management of such ports upon the boards of major port auth…

New Delhi, Sep 24 : The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020 which seeks to provide autonomy to India’s 12 major ports and vest the administration, control and management of such ports upon the boards of major port auth…

Chandigarh, Sep 23 : Amid apprehensions of oxygen shortages with rising coronavirus cases, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct urgent steps to ensure adequate supplies from other states, and…

New Delhi, Sep 23 : Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Pralhad Joshi, on Wednesday dubbed Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla as the ‘Hero of Zero Hour’ for giving chance to each parliamentarian to raise matters of urgent public importance in the House….

New Delhi, Sep 23 : As the farmer agitation intensifies, experts and activists view the new agricultural legislations as leading to privatisation of the sector and some say it is reverting to the pre-1965 days.Avik Saha, Organising Secretary, All Ind…

New Delhi, Sep 23 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday raised a red flag about 60 districts of the country spread across seven states, as far as their handling of the current pandemic is concerned.The PM emphasised upon the need for better com…

New Delhi, Sep 23 : One enduring image connected to the tumultuous Rajya Sabha proceedings on Sunday that will remain etched in public memory is of Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien tearing documents right in front of the Chair.The former quizz mas…

New Delhi, Sep 23 : Opposition leaders met President Kovind on Wednesday and apprised him of the circumstances amid which the Farm Bills were passed in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday.They requested him to return the Bills for reconsideration to the House….

Thiruuvananthapuram, Sep 23 : Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday that the state government is looking at if legal steps can be initiated against the controversial farm Bills which were passed recently by the two Houses of parlia…

Srinagar, Sep 23 : Kashmir’s Pashmina shawl has a centuries-old reputation and Emperor Napoleon presenting a gown made of Pashmina yarn to his queen Josephine is just one of the myriad stories eulogising the famed handwoven garment.Pashmina shawls ar…