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Farmer unions to step up protests after rejecting offer to defer new laws

The 11th round of talks between the central government and farmer unions ended in deadlock

Govt amends CSR rules; allows cos to undertake multi-year projects

The government on Friday amended various rules pertaining to the CSR regime

Priority will be to boost global partnership: India on US ties under Biden

India aims to remain engaged on all levels with the US

Govt not in favor of extra chance to UPSC aspirants who missed last attempt

Many civil services aspirants could not appear in their last attempt in the exams conducted by the UPSC last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Farmers reject Centre's proposal to put farm laws on hold for 1.5 years

The govt proposed to suspend three contentious farm laws for 1-1.5 years during the tenth round of talks

Centre approves construction of over 168,000 houses under PMAY-Urban

This takes the total number of houses sanctioned so far to 11 million, according to a statement on Thursday.

Govt assures Coal India of 'full support', stresses learning 'new things'

Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi on Thursday assured Coal India of full government support

Won't participate in meetings of court-appointed panel: Farmer unions to SC

The top court told the lawyers appearing for farmers unions that all it wanted is the resolution of the impasse and peace

Tenth round of talks between govt, farmers ends; next meeting on January 22

The leaders said unions are firm on their demand for a complete repeal of the laws, but they will still discuss the government''s proposal and give their final decision in the next meeting

New farm laws will make farmers captive of big traders: Kamal Nath

Nath made the statement while addressing 'Kisan Khat Mahapanchayat' in Morena district, the Lok Sabha constituency of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

Govt offers to amend farm laws; Unions insist on repeal, discussion on MSP

Farmers alleged that the Centre was avoiding discussion on a legal guarantee for MSP

Cairn says engaged with Indian govt on adherence to arbitration award

This comes a month after a tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ordered India to return $1.2 billion to UK's Cairn Energy Plc

Centre withdraws plea in SC against farmers' tractor rally on Jan 26

The move comes after the Supreme Court said 'it is a police matter'

India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy, answer 14 questions

WhatsApp has rolled back the update deadline from February 8 to May after it faced a huge backlash

Farmers' protest: Repealing laws not good for future reforms, says SC panel

Rahul Gandhi says new acts will destroy country's agriculture; V-P Naidu calls for keeping farmers' welfare in mind while framing farm policies

India plans foreign investment rule changes that could hit Amazon: Report

Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart were last hit in Dec. 2018 by investment rule changes that barred foreign e-commerce players from offering products from sellers in which they have an equity stake

Farm laws designed to destroy agri, repealing them only solution: Rahul

He said the chats on the Pulwama attack in which the journalist said that "this is good for us" is distressing and an "anti-national"

Govt to exit its holding in VSNL, sell 26.12% stake for Rs 8,400 cr

Public sector VSNL was privatised in the year 2002 by disinvesting 25 per cent shareholding along with transfer of management control to Panatone Finvest Ltd, the strategic partner

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10th round of talks bewteen govt-farmer unions postponed to January 20

Meanwhile, a Supreme Court-appointed panel to resolve the crisis is scheduled to hold its first meeting on Tuesday