The Center will resume rail services in Punjab only when blockades along the railroad tracks are cleared, rail board chairman and chief executive VK Yadav said Thursday, adding that the state government has ensured that all locks will be removed on Friday. As of Thursday night, 14 of the 32 …
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Despite the approval of the agricultural reform bills in Parliament, protests in Haryana continue with various organizations preparing to support Bharat Bandh’s call on September 25. Farmer leaders said that various farmer organizations such as Bharatiya kisan union (BKU), all India Farmers Union (AIFU), all India kisan sangharsh Coordination Committee …
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In protest against the Center’s agrarian bills, Punjab farmers will organize a three-day “rail roko” agitation starting Thursday. After the approval of the Lok Sabha, the Farmers Agreement (Empowerment and Protection) on Price Assurance and the Draft Agricultural Services Law of 2020 and the Draft Law of Trade and Trade …
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Thousands of farmers have blocked NH 344 national highway, also known as Ambala-Roorkee, near Milk Majra village in Haryana’s Yamunanagar district to oppose land reform bills currently being debated in Parliament. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) state president Gurnam Singh Charuni led the protest in Yamunanagar and thanked farmers for coming …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | September 18, 2020 12:04:57 pm The leader of Congress and former Minister of Finance, P Chidambaram. (Photo / File Express) Congressional leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram said on Friday that protests by farmers and the passage of two contentious agricultural …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 17, 2020 10:54:28 pm MPs are silent during an obituary reference for the late YSRCP MP Balli Durga Prasad Rao in Lok Sabha at the current Monsoon Parliament Session, amid the coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: LSTV …
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“These ordinances are affecting Punjab more,” said Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal. Chandigarh: Facing the heat of farmers in Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal, an ally of the ruling BJP in the center, said the party had not been consulted on the agriculture-related ordinances that were recently passed by the …
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