At a time when the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is again spreading fast across the country, events like the Kumbh Mela pose a particular concern for the authorities. There are big crowds near the river banks […]
New Delhi (TIP): Amid rising cases of Covid-19 in the country, the Congress has started a social media campaign for vaccination for all. Claiming that the country is facing shortage of vaccines, the party said […]
New Delhi (TIP): As the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed the 10 crore-mark, the Union Health Ministry on Saturday, April 10, said that India is the fastest nation to […]
New Delhi (TIP): India hit a new coronavirus infection record with 1,68,912 new cases, the highest single-day rise so far, taking the total tally of cases to 1,35,27,717, according to the Union Health Ministry data […]
New Delhi (TIP): Several staff members of the Supreme Court have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). As of Saturday, at least 44 members from judges’ offices and in the court registry are found […]
New Delhi (TIP): As more and more states flag shortage of Covid-19 vaccine doses, the Central government has pressed the accelerator to scale up vaccine production manifold. Top government sources told ANI that by end […]
Farmers protesting the contentious new farm laws are ready to talk if the Centre invites them, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said on Sunday, April 11, maintaining that the dialogue would resume where it had ended […]
Guru Gobind Singh, born Gobind Rai (22 December 1666 – 7 October 1708), was the 10th Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, warrior, poet and philosopher. When his father, Guru Teg Bahadur, was beheaded for refusing […]
Khalsa, (Punjabi: “the Pure”) the purified and reconstituted Sikh community instituted by Guru Gobind Singh on March 30, 1699 (Vaisakhi Day; Khalsa Sikhs celebrate the birth of the order on April 13 of each year). […]
London (TIP): British scientists have warned that the British government is risking a third wave of Covid-19 by easing the lockdown too soon, local media reported. “There are areas in West Yorkshire, the Black Country […]
Toronto (TIP): The rapid spread of more contagious Covid-19 variants is believed to have driven a devastating third wave in Canada. As of Saturday, April 11, afternoon, a total of 30,108 variant of concern cases […]
Washington (TIP): In its latest update on Monday, April 12, morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 135,855,351 and 2,934,981, respectively. […]
The farmer unions believe that the laws will open the sale and marketing of agricultural products outside the notified Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis for farmers. Further, the laws will allow inter-state trade and […]
Indian farmers, particularly from agrarian states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, are protesting since November 26, 2020, against three farm laws passed by Parliament of India in September 2020. According to Haryana Police, […]
The history of agrarian unrest can be traced back to the first quarter of 1920s. The rural sociologists have used various terms for peasant unrest. For some, the unrest is called as a peasant struggle, […]
Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for about 58% of India’s population. Gross Value Added (GVA) by agriculture, forestry and fishing was estimated at Rs. 19.48 lakh crore (US$ 276.37 billion) in FY20 (PE). […]
In 2017, a government committee reported that incomes for farmers would need to grow by 10.4% each year from 2015 for them to double by 2022. That’s not been happening. It also said the government […]
Indian farmers have been on the road since November last year, seeking repeal of three new farm laws and demanding minimum support prices for their produce. Leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) say […]
By Mabel Pais EarthxFilm’s 5th edition Anjali Nayar’s “District 15” among them Hybrid Screenings April 16-25, 2021 EarthxFilm, in this year’s hybrid edition of the Dallas-based Environmental-Focused film festival, has ten days and nights of […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Dr. Suresh Reddy, immediate past president of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), has won Tuesday’s (April 6) election as a Trustee of Oak Brook, a small Illinois town of nearly […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Democracies around the world, including the US and India, are facing challenges, Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has said. “Today, one cannot escape the feeling that America’s democratic institutions are facing unprecedented threats,” […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Asserting that corporations are not people and money is not speech, 50 Members of US Congress led by Indian American Pramila Jayapal have introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would end corporate […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Scripps National Spelling Bee, America’s largest and longest-running educational program dominated for a dozen years by Indian Americans, is back this summer after a year of hiatus due to covid pandemic. […]
US authorities are investigating the tragic death Officials in the Indian Consulate in New York termed the incident as very tragic and said they were in touch with the family of the deceased NEW JERSY(TIP): […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Indian American Rupa Ranga Puttagunta as a federal judge among a slate of 11 “trailblazing” judicial nominees reflecting “the full diversity of the American […]
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