Amid calls for a ‘separate administration’ by Kuki groups in the ethnic strife-torn state of Manipur, peace talks between Naga insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) or NSCN-IM and the Centre have also seen progress, officials privy to the development told News18
The Delhi police's treatment of its top leaders could prove to be a wake up call for the party, which chose to remain largely silent during a series of attacks on civil liberties in the past few years.
Farmers protests as potential super spreader?
With a second Covid surge hitting the country, the state works on evacuating the farmers from protest sites
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UPDATED: April 19, 2021 21:28 IST
Farmers raise slogans during a panchayat on the National Highway-9, near Ghazipur in New Delhi. (PTI)
The governments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have accelerated the pressure on farmer outfits to vacate the protest sites on Delhi’s borders Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur after the second countrywide surge in Covid infections. The Amit Shah-led Union home ministry is working out a strategy with the two BJP-led state governments along with the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government in Punjab to talk to the farmer leaders and apprise them of the intensity of the surge.
How 75% reservation for locals in private jobs will impact Haryana
How 75% reservation for locals in private jobs will impact Haryana | India Today Insight
The bill goes against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for ease of doing business and will hurt India’s auto and Fortune 500 companies’ hub
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UPDATED: March 4, 2021 10:34 IST
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar during an interview on Feb 25, in Chandigarh (Sandeep Sahdev)
A week before the Haryana assembly reconvened for the budget session, state governor Satyadev Narayan Arya finally gave his consent to the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020, providing 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs for the state’s residents. The enactment of the legislation, a key assembly election promise made by the ruling BJP’s coalition partner Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), though will bring in its own set of challenges because of its various clauses one of them being that companies