ET Bureau Arhtiyas are also politically influential. In all probability, they call the shots in the ongoing protests. But there are two features of the bills that invite valid opposition: one, infraction of the states’ right to decide on intra-state commerce in agriculture, and two, officer-led dispute settlement outside the ambit of judicial review.

ET Bureau "There are 48 sections we have amended to decriminalise them and 17 sections have been amended to improve the ease of living," finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during a debate on the bill.

ET Bureau For DMK, which has been out of power for two consecutive terms, the stakes have never been higher. The first assembly polls in the state after the death of popular leaders J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi, 2021 will also be the biggest test yet for Stalin, who was elected president in 2018 within days of his father Karunanidhi’s death.

New York Times A number of the leading COVID-19 vaccines under development will need to be kept at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit) from the moment they are bottled to the time they are ready to be injected into patients’ arms. That will not be easy.