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Lawyer Amarjit Singh was pronounced dead by doctors at a Rohtak hospital. New Delhi: A Punjab lawyer allegedly committed suicide on Sunday a few kilometers from the site of a farmers’ protest on the outskirts of Delhi. Amarjit Singh from Jalalabad in the Fazilka district of Punjab was found on …

A 63-year-old contract farmer, who was also a member of one of the unions protesting on the Delhi borders, committed suicide on Sunday morning. The victim, identified as Amarjeet Singh Rai, consumed sulfa tablets, which are used to protect crops from rodents, near Pakora Chowk, the protest site of BKU …

BJP President JP Nadda shared an old video of Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Lok Sabha on Sunday showing the leader of Congress defending the need for farmers to get rid of middlemen and sell their produce directly to the industry. “What is this magic that is happening Rahul ji? You …

BJP chief JP Nadda has targeted Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for farmers’ protest (file) New Delhi: The BJP and Congress on Sunday discussed excerpts from Rahul Gandhi’s May 2015 Lok Sabha speech, in which the Kerala MP referred to a conversation with a potato farmer from Uttar Pradesh and …

NEW DELHI: BJP President JP Nadda shared an old video of Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Lok Sabha on Sunday in which he appears to be advocating the need for farmers to get rid of middlemen and sell their produce directly to industry, as he accused the Congress leader from playing …

Amarinder Singh said that the accusations that Punjab farmers were “urban naxals” were “silly, petty” (archive) Chandigarh: Punjab Prime Minister Amarinder Singh responded to the BJP on Sunday, hours after the ruling party said that the farmers protesting the center’s agricultural laws were “urban naxals” and accused him of failing …

Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that the Center never intended to remove the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and did not ‘Mai Ka Lal‘could take land away from farmers even as protests against farm reform laws entered their fifth week. Addressing the opposition, Rajnath, who has been at …

Amarinder Singh’s appeal came after a request from an association of telecommunications tower providers. Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s appeal to protesting farmers not to damage telecom infrastructure appears to have failed to deter further attacks, with more than 150 signal transmission sites being vandalized overnight, sources said Sunday. …

Intensifying their agitation against the new agricultural laws, the farmers’ unions in Haryana announced that they will continue to allow the free movement of vehicles on the roads until the Center agrees to their demands. Initially, farmers said that no tolls would be collected on the roads for three days, …

Farmers’ organizations in Haryana have decided to force the opening of toll plazas in the state for an indefinite period to guarantee free transportation for all who pass. The decision has been made to further intensify the protests against the three agricultural laws. Earlier, the leaders of the farmers’ union …