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NEW DELHI: The Punjab farmers protesting against three new agricultural laws have decided to lift their rail blockade from 23 November. The farmers’ unions said they will lift the blockade for 15 days during which the central government should hold talks, adding that the protests will resume if the government …

Thousands of Punjab farmers had blocked railroad tracks and highways to protest against agricultural laws. Chandigarh: Punjab farmers who had set up statewide rail blockades to protest the center’s controversial agricultural laws will allow trains (both passenger and freight) to resume service starting Monday night, it was announced after a …

A look at the headlines right now: Five members of security personnel, six civilians killed in violations of the ceasefire by Pakistan: Congress, North Carolina, lamented the deaths and called the act “modern barbarism.” ‘No lawyers, no apologies, no fine, no loss of space,’ Kunal Kamra tweets to SC judges: …

Punjab farmer representatives met today with trade union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal New Delhi: Punjab farmers protesting the three controversial farm laws passed by the center in early September – laws that have been criticized as “anti-farmer” – met with union ministers Piyush Goyal and Narendra Singh …

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 …

The head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jagat Prakash Nadda, has written a letter to Punjab’s Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh about the ongoing protests in the state against the farm last approved by Parliament. In the letter, Nadda has detained the Amarinder government over the situation in the …

Amarinder Singh has risen to the occasion in this crisis. Even in the past he has spoken out on key issues, even if that meant going against the Center or his own party. For example, he resigned from Congress after Operation Bluestar in 1984 and took on the UPA government …

NEW DELHI: Punjab farmers’ organizations boycotted a meeting called by the Union Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday to resolve their concerns about the new farm laws and accused the government of playing double standards with no minister present to listen to them. Representatives of 29 farmers’ organizations, including the one …

Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi’s Kheti Bachao tractor rally against agricultural laws will enter Haryana from Punjab near Kyukar village of Pehowa subdivision of Kurukshetra district on Tuesday afternoon. According to his schedule, Gandhi will lead a tour in Pehowa after entering Haryana. He plans to meet the farmers around 3pm. …

Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi will hold tractor rallies in Punjab on Sunday to protest the three farm laws recently passed by Parliament after his visit to the state to extend support for agitators farmers was postponed one day while visiting the Hathras gang family. -Rape victim on Saturday. According to …