Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan noted that the sudden rise in coronavirus cases is largely or may be event-driven comprising local body elections, grand weddings, and farmers' protest

The legislation would allow recreational marijuana sales to adults over the age of 21, and set up a licensing process for the delivery of cannabis products to customers. Individual New Yorkers could grow up to three mature and three immature plants for personal consumption

Senior IAS officer Saurabh Garg has been appointed as the chief executive officer of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)

The exports will help India reduce stockpiles and support local prices of the sweetener, crucial in ensuring millions of cane farmers get government-mandated prices

During the first day of the bank strike, services such as cash withdrawals, deposits, cheque clearing, and business transactions remained impacted across the country

Farmer unions protesting the three farm laws have called for a Bharat Bandh on March 26; Apple's iPhone 12, which is now being manufactured locally in India, will be available for purchase starting April-May this year, confirm analysts and industry sources. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Cognizant to cover COVID-19 vaccine cost of over 6 lakh employees, dependents, other workers

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In his response to Lok Sabha, the Agriculture Minister said that the new farm laws are meant to make agricultural markets more efficient and provide farmers better prices for their produce

A railway spokesperson said the agitation passed off without any untoward incident and there was negligible or minimal impact on running of the trains across the country

Maharashtra Congress's general secretary Sachin Sawant has sought the probe to find out if the celebrities and sports star, who tweeted about India's unity and sovereignty, were under some sort of pressure by the ruling BJP

Internet shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir -- for 233 days -- after Article 370 was abrogated, was the longest internet shutdown in the world. Jammu and Kashmir had no access to the internet from August 4, 2019 to March 4, 2020

As per the latest reports, at least thirty-eight workers have got injuries after they came in contact with hot air and coal particles from a furnace of the steel plant

Indian sugar mills produced 17.7 million tonnes of sugar in the first four months of the marketing year which started on Oct. 1, 2020

The Ministry of Power has already announced that it is planning to replace 250 million conventional electricity metres with smart metres by 2022 in Indian homes under the Smart Meter National programme to stop pilferage and encourage timely payment

Punjab had the highest number of such discrepancies, accounting for 23 per cent farmers who wrongly received funds under PM-KISAN scheme; Maharashtra saw 17 per cent of these cases

COVID-19 containment guidelines MHA: These relaxations will be applicable to all areas except those classified as containment zones

The protesters are no more restricted to just Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. The unions said they had mobilised some organisations in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and West Bengal to intensify the agitations

The government gives guaranteed return to private companies in its business dealings and considers their profit-motive good and desirable. Why the same doesn't hold true for farmers?

The city is thronged by over 6,000 farmers from 21 districts of Maharashtra standing in solidarity with protesting farmers at Delhi borders on three contentious farm laws

COVID-19 immunisation in India: As on January 24, till 8 am, nearly 16 lakh (15,82,201) beneficiaries have received Covid-19 vaccination