Even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been coordinating with opposition leaders to hold a joint rally by anti-BJP leaders in Kolkata, on Thursday the CPM worked behind the scenes to get 11 parties, including the NCP, DMK and Congress, issue a joint statement against the BJP government …
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Written by Sukrita Baruah | New Delhi | Updated: December 17, 2020 7:46:11 am The group arrived in Tikri on Wednesday. Prem Nath Pandey Relatives of farmers who committed suicide in Punjab over the years joined the ongoing protest at the Tikri border in Delhi on Wednesday, with some widows …
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Written by Ravish Tiwari | New Delhi | Updated: December 17, 2020 7:43:24 am A boy with a tricolor during the Farmar protest on the border of Tikari on Wednesday. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey) Comparatively less spontaneous than the nationwide anti-CAA protests a year ago, the standoff between …
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Written by Harikishan Sharma, P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: December 16, 2020 7:47:17 am “The MSP is being implemented through a government administrative decision. It was in effect in the past, is in the present and will continue in the future. We have made it clear that …
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Written by Sukrita Baruah | New Delhi | Updated: December 15, 2020 9:02:12 am Farmers like Mewa Singh, who prepare their own food with their tractors, receive fresh supplies that arrive in trucks from the villages of Haryana. More than two kilometers from the start of the farmers’ blockade on …
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Written by Sukrita Baruah | New Delhi | Updated: December 15, 2020 8:43:56 am Farmers like Mewa Singh, who prepare their own food with their tractors, receive fresh supplies that arrive in trucks from the villages of Haryana. More than two kilometers from the start of the farmers’ blockade on …
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Written by Sukhbir Siwach | Chandigarh | Updated: December 15, 2020 8:39:00 am When contacted, Haryana DGP Manoj Yadava said, “We have made preparations that if we need to seal the borders, we should be able to do it. As of now, the borders have not been sealed to avoid …
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Written by Amil Bhatnagar | New Delhi | Updated: December 14, 2020 7:46:34 am On the Singhu border on Saturday night, one of the 3 key border points that have become the epicenter of the protests. Praveen khanna A little after 7 p.m., a thick fog comes in and the …
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Written by Liz Mathew, Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: December 6, 2020 7:34:15 am Representatives of the farmers’ unions brought their own food for Saturday’s meeting at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. (AND ME) The CENTRAL government found itself cornered on Saturday with the farmers’ unions once again …
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Written by Manoj CG | New Delhi | Updated: December 1, 2020 7:22:56 am Leaders of the Punjab Congress said a farmers’ movement could launch new leaders and the unrest could quickly “get out of hand”. While Congress supports the farmers’ protest in hopes that it will sharpen its political …
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