The meeting assumes significance as it comes amid fierce protests by a section of farmers in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh against the three new farm laws

BJP president J P Nadda chaired meetings of the party's national general secretaries and also general secretaries (organisation) of states

The 24-year old trade union activist Nodeep Kaur was arrested when she joined a labourers' protest at Kundli in Haryana. The activist has been in custody since nearly a month without bail

The UN Human Rights statement comes days after global celebrities like Rihanna, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and several others supported the farmers' protest

Rahul Gandhi's conspicuous absence from the country comes at a crucial time for Congress as it gets ready for party presidential elections

Health Minister Anil Vij said the state government is making all preparations in terms of building database of priority groups, cold chain infrastructure; identification and training of vaccinators for rolling out vaccination

The 67-year-old BJP leader, who's also the home minister in the Khattar Cabinet, has requested everyone who might have come in his contact to get tested. He was the first volunteer in the phase three trials for Covaxin to get the vaccine shot

Farmers' protests Delhi: Farmers have upped the ante against the government and have announced Bharat Bandh on December 8 if their demands are not met

Maheshwari breathed her last at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, Haryana. She was shifted to the hospital after her condition worsened.

BJP-ruled states like Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka have said they will introduce new laws against religious conversion in the name of \"love jihad\", a term coined by right-wing outfits opposing inter-faith marriages

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This move seems to arise from the government's inability to create jobs so it is using its power to enact and make regulations, says K.R. Shyam Sundar, labour economist, and professor at XLRI Jamshedpur

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Giving 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs was a key poll promise by Chautala's JJP, which is the BJP's coalition partner in the state

Farmers in Punjab have expressed apprehension that the Centre's farm reforms would pave a way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the \"mercy\" of big corporates

The 94 constituencies in the second phase of elections will decide the electoral fate of RJD leader and grand alliance's chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav and more than 1,450 other candidates

Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in West Champaran district for his second round of campaigning in the ongoing state elections, also attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over unemployment and the issue of migration

Delhi pollution: The Ministry of Earth Sciences' air quality monitor System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said a significant increase in the stubble-fire count was observed around Haryana, Punjab and other neighbouring regions

Once these bills will become laws, farmers can take their produce anywhere -- inter-state or intra-state -- beyond APMCs; states can't levy any fee or cess on farmers; and farmers and buyers can reach at an agreement before procuring harvest

Khattar had self-quarantined himself after Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who he met last week, tested positive for coronavirus