Union minister of state for commerce Som Parkash, who is the sole representative of Punjab in the central cabinet, said the propaganda was that farmers’ land would be snatched by corporates, arguing that the laws had "nothing like that".
Britain's competition watchdog said Friday it launched an investigation into Google's plan to overhaul its ad data system over worries it could leave even less room for rivals in the online ad industry.
Europe's drug regulator gave the green light to Moderna Inc's COVID19 vaccine on Wednesday, the second shot it has approved, as authorities accelerate inoculation efforts amid fears about more infectious variants of the coronavirus.
Pahadi police station SHO Shravan Kumar Singh has been suspended on charges of laxity following the double murder.
Asian shares mostly rose Wednesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 30,000 points for the first time despite an ongoing pandemic, as progress in development of coronavirus vaccines kept investors in a buying mood.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday took charge of the Labour department of Delhi government and set an ambitious target of registration of 10 lakh construction workers with the Labour Welfare Board in the coming months. He asserted that ev...
For the second day in a row, Iran announced Monday its highest singleday death toll from the coronavirus with 272 people killed.
Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday announced its new project, "Putham Pudhu Kaalai", an anthology of five Tamil short films. Five celebrated directors of Tamil cinema -- Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Rajiv Menon and Karthik Subbaraj...
Global stock markets and U.S. futures tumbled Monday after Wall Street fell for a third straight week and investors were rattled by U.S.Chinese tension over technology and security and a rise in British coronavirus infections.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, if elected to power in the November elections, and set new standards towards reducing carbon emissions. "While he (President Donald Trump) tu...
Iran has let the U.N. nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff, while Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further, quarterly reports by the agency said on Friday.
The man who suffocated after police in New York's third-largest city put a spit hood over his head was the loving father of five adult children, had some mental health issues but was harmless, and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his brother...
At least 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese boat, officials and witnesses said on Friday, as witnesses described the deaths of one mother dolphin and her baby.
Protest groups in Belarus are trying to use limited access to the Telegram messaging service to coordinate antigovernment action, but say an internet shutdown they blame on the authorities has been effective in slowing them down.
