NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Leader Rakesh tikait on Saturday he said they have given the government until October 2 to repeal the agricultural laws, otherwise the agricultural unions agitating against the new laws would plan more protests. Speaking in the Ghazipur protest site, Tikait said: “We have given …
Read More »Farmers protest in Delhi: Police erect border walls and plant spikes to stop protest | India News
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is to secure the borders, and how! Roads are being excavated with cranes, iron fences and spikes are being cemented into the ground, layers of barricades are being placed, with concrete poured between two barriers for added stability, and concertina wires and rocks are being placed …
Read More »Man who attacked a policeman with a sword at farmers’ protest, 43 more arrested
Several people, including a police officer, were injured in the violence. New Delhi: Delhi police arrested 44 people, including the man who attacked a police officer on Friday with a sword during clashes on the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana, the epicenter of the two-month-long farmers’ protest against three …
Read More »No troublemaker will be spared: Delhi’s top policeman | India News
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police commissioner SN Shrivastava on Wednesday he held peasant union leaders responsible for the violence in the capital on Republic Day. Insinuating a premeditated conspiracy, the police officer He accused the leaders of bringing “militant elements” – who were not at the forefront until then – into …
Read More »Farmers protest: Singhu and Tikri borders remain completely blocked
The traffic situation on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border and on the Delhi-Noida border remained the same on Tuesday, with normal vehicular movement for motorists leaving Delhi, but blocked for those heading towards the capital. The Singhu and Tikri borders, however, remain completely blocked due to ongoing farmer agitation. Deputy Police Commissioner …
Read More »Will farmers resume talks with the government? Some protesters hint at a ‘positive step’ ahead of today’s union meeting
“We have another meeting tomorrow to make a decision on the Center’s letter. At this meeting, we can decide to resume talks with the government, as it appears in its previous letters that it has not been able to understand our problems so far,” he said. on Friday. He said …
Read More »Farmers protesting on the Ghazipur border ask Jamia students to leave
Farmers block the Delhi-UP border during their protest against the new agricultural laws, on NH-24 in Ghazipur on December 13, 2020. (PTI Photo / Vijay Verma) When the group of students, including 4 to 5 young women, arrived at the site of the demonstration, the farmers protested their presence. IANS …
Read More »‘Seeing our plight, our children no longer want to become farmers’ | India News
NEW DELHI: As thousands of farmers toil in Delhi borders fortifying the cold winter winds and preparing for a long struggle to press their demands, some regret that seeing their plight, their children no longer wish to get into farming. Hasseb Ahmed, who has been in a sit-in against the …
Read More »Office goers fight as farmers block key Delhi borders, diversions lead to long traffic jams
Traffic jam on the border between Delhi and Gurugram on Friday There is no relief in sight for travelers, especially office goers, from long traffic jams on Wednesday when thousands of farmers blocked key entrances to the national capital for the seventh day in a row. While the police have …
Read More »From slogans to ‘Kirtan’, the face of the Delhi border changes as farmers mark Nanak Jayanti with hymns, prasad
In the midst of their confrontation with the Center over their protest site in Delhi, farmers demonstrating at the Singhu entry point on the Delhi-Haryana border on Monday were busy commemorating the birth anniversary of the first Sikh teacher, Guru Nanak Dev, listening to ‘kirtan’ and recalling his teachings in …
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