'It may be a bit slow to start, but all are eager to get back into action.'
'Those who thought they are above law and above courts of the country are now approaching courts praying bail; some people have already gone inside (jail) which is their rightful place.'
Scattered incidents of violence, including torching of buses and clashes, occurred and 1,600 people were arrested during the 12-hour bandh.
In his complaint lodged with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, former Congress MLA Surendra Singh Jadavat alleged that Chittorgarh SDM Tejasvi Rana also snatched currency notes from vendors in the mandi and tore them up. A sitting ruling party MLA, going to Circuit House in a vehicle, too was stopped by her and his driver was fined by police on her directions for not carrying licence.
'I worry that the suffering of these people might be as invisible as the people themselves,' observes Geetanjali Krishna.
Flooding reached historic levels in Venice leading to rain-soaked tourists being asked to leave the historic St Mark's Square, as large swathes of Italy experienced heavy winds and flooding, leaving at least five people dead. Reports said that three-quarters of Venice was flooded. Take a look.
Hardly anyone wears a mask and most brush off concerns over a pandemic. It is not just scepticism over the existence of the pandemic. A common refrain across villages is the fear of vaccines, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi.
Why should an elected government, any party's government, need a law to protect itself from its people? asks Shekhar Gupta.
The Congress took out marches and observed bandh at several places on Saturday to protest against rising fuel prices.
An MLA of Bihar's ruling Janta Dal-United has lodged an FIR against his son for allegedly threatening a shopkeeper for extortion. \n
As Narendra Modi and his ministers vigorously campaign for a shift to a cashless society, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf reports on what is really happening on the ground.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 29,685, while 11,761 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said.
A primer on how the issue came to the forefront and how it could force 44,000 shopkeepers in the national capital to shut shop.
Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
Squashing erstwhile 'separatists', marginalising the 'mainstream', and squeezing funding channels have all evidently had an impact -- at least for the moment, notes David Devadas after a visit to Srinagar.
The Congress is looking at Channapatna to take revenge on the JD-S which, it believes, has an underhand deal with the BJP to stop it from getting a majority.
As many as 48 persons were injured in these incidents and 25 still missing, while so far, 2,29,074 persons have been evacuated from the flood and rain-affected affected areas and moved to safer places, the government said in a statement in Mumbai.
His comment puts an end to speculation that Congress was having a rethink about going solo in Delhi.
Pavitra Punia expresses her feelings for Eijaz Khan, who doesn't feel the same way.
They said protests took place at around a dozen places in which several protesters were injured.
Agriculture, social services, education, defence and so on will be brought into the digital fold and every gram panchayat will be connected to the internet.
'There can be potential hotspots for spread of infection like industrial clusters with closed work environment, people coming from high prevalence areas, other high density areas such as slums, prisons, old age homes etc'
She said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) adopted last year by India's Parliament was of 'great concern'.
'Government is saying that I will not be responsible for ensuring you get MSP but traders and large corporate will be responsible. 'India now is the only country that is saying such things'
Nearly 7,000 paramilitary forces have been deployed in the affected areas of the northeast district since Monday.
Director P Sheshadri talks about the film, winning the National Award and what triggered the idea for the film.
Rahul Gandhi stressed the importance of an electoral understanding in UP if the BJP is to be defeated in the Lok Sabha polls.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said India is a very special and important country with a remarkable entrepreneurship culture, as he sought to push deeper the just-launched payments services that allow users to make payments over WhatsApp. Last month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp received approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for rolling out its payments services in India. In 2018, WhatsApp started testing its UPI-based payments services in India -- a global first -- with about a million users.
From an expert bomb maker to a small time shopkeeper selling perfumes near Muridkee in Pakistan, Abdul Karim Tunda has claimed that top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander and Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi calls the shots in the terror outfit.
Niranjan Upadhye, general manager, fraud risk management, Worldline India, tells you how to quickly spot a scam and save yourself from grief.
With as many as 2,30,599 COVID-19 cases, Maharashtra continues to remain the worst-affected state, followed by Tamil Nadu (1,26,581) and Delhi (1,07,051).
Three persons arrested in connection with death of a 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh youth, who was allegedly beaten by some shopkeepers in New Delhi, were on Tuesday remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a Delhi court.
'Why shouldn't we talk against the BJP when it is solely responsible for bringing in these three laws by riding rough over Parliamentary procedures and norms?' 'We will talk against the BJP because it is the sole political party responsible for pushing these destructive farm laws'
The proposed visit of a Pakistani delegation to Ajmer for the 801st Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti has become mired in controversy with local activists raising strong objection to it in the wake of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's death.
Traders and shopkeepers in Maharashtra are on an indefinite strike since Monday to protest against the newly-introduced Local Body Tax (LBT), which replaces octroi.
The Local Body Tax replaces octroi.
A total of 1,350 people have been evacuated from Badrinath while over 3,500 remain untraced in flood-hit Uttarakhand, claimed the National Disaster Management Authority even as a United Nations agency estimated that the number of missing could be over 11,000.
India's tally is now at 2,97,535, while the death toll is at 8,498.
Private cars have come under stone-pelting at many places as the miscreants want to enforce shutdown.
