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Local police officers have taken action against 23 people in this regard, and have booked and arrested the chief villager in the Sanand area of Gujarat state.
Since November last year, a number of farmers from the agricultural states of Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have been protesting against three farm laws passed in September 2020. The last round of official talks that the farmers held with government officials was on 22 January this year.
On 2 May, the results of the West Bengal state assembly election were announced, granting Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress an easy victory after it bagged 213 seats out of 292. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 77 and the remaining two seats were won by an independent candidate and a local party.
India on Wednesday recorded more than 382,000 fresh infections and 3,780 deaths, the highest number of fatalities reported from any nation in a single day. The South Asian country has been facing a devastating second COVID wave since last month, with more than 300,000 new daily cases being reported for nearly two weeks.
Over the past few weeks, India's unpreparedness for the second wave has laid bare the country's poor health infrastructure. Every day the country reports a fresh record - either in how many deaths or cases have been registered.
"There are lots of other platforms on which my voice can be heard,” said Bollywood’s curly-haired beauty Kangana Ranaut to India's media after micro-blogging app Twitter permanently suspended her personal account. Twitter issued a statement saying that the actress’ account violated its policies against hateful and abusive conduct.
India and China have been in a military stand-off for almost a year and it is the deadliest conflict between the two Asian powerhouses since the 1962 border war. New Delhi says that any significant cooperation with Beijing on fighting COVID-19 can only take place once the dispute has been resolved.
As Indians struggle to cope with the second wave of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are being criticised for investing billions of dollars in building temples, statues, and reconstructing the parliament area of Delhi rather than focusing on enhancing India’s health infrastructure.
Amid the pandemic, four Indian states and one union territory — Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry — held assembly polls in different phases from 27 March to 29 April.
A 21-year-old man from Delhi, Piyush Singh had to find a taxi and take his COVID-positive mother to her hometown, 14 hours away from the Indian capital two days after losing his father to the virus. Singh was watching his mother's oxygen drop below 90, but was unable to find an oxygen cylinder in Delhi.
In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted a proposal to the World Trade Organisation to allow member countries to waive intellectual property rights, including patents related to COVID-19 vaccines and other technologies during the pandemic.
Amid the pandemic, Indian airlines have been operating domestically and ferrying thousands of passengers on a daily basis. The airlines have adopted a multi-layered approach to offer safe travel for people in line with coronavirus regulations.
Often called the priest of wit and wisdom, Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom served as a bishop for nearly 68 years, which is a record in the Indian church. He was honoured with the nation's third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan in 2018.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, announced on Tuesday a ‘2030 Roadmap’ to strengthen ties between the two countries in various sectors, including trade and defence. India's links with the UK are now at the level of ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ – the first European country to be granted that status.
India was supposed to conduct its 5G trials back in 2020. However, the plan was delayed because of the global coronavirus outbreak. In February this year, India’s Department of Telecoms (DoT) finally gave the thumbs-up for 5G spectrum trials.
Despite India reporting more than 300,000 coronavirus infections each day for more than a week, travelling within the country has not been suspended. With several states putting a negative COVID-19 test as a requirement for travellers, intercity trains and flights are ferrying hundreds of people from one part of the country to another.
Scott Morrison's government moved to forbid travellers coming from India to enter Australia until 15 May. The government threatened rule-breakers, including Australian citizens, with prison time.
There is growing resentment in India, which is battling a devastating second wave of COVID, over how hundreds of tonnes of medical supplies from foreign countries in the past few days are being allocated. Several state governments which have been facing shortages of medical oxygen and medicines say they haven't received any aid as yet.
Back in January, Kangana Ranaut bashed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after claiming that her account had briefly been restricted. At the time, many netizens called on Dorsey to suspend the actress' page permanently, accusing her of "spreading hate".
West Bengal state chief Mamata Banerjee, who won 213 seats against the 77 won by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recent state election, said BJP members killed Trinamool Congress party workers. The BJP has denied the accusations.