Bathinda, February 7 Members of farmer unions, Khet Mazdoor Union and Association for Democratic Rights in the state have raised pitch for the release of labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, who was arrested on January 12 by the Haryana Police near the Singhu border for protesting against a firm. SheRead More

New Delhi/Chandigarh, February 6 Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan blocked highways with tractor-trolleys and squatted on key roads on Saturday, while scattered protests were held in other states during a three-hour ‘chakka jam’ called by agitating farmer unions which are demanding scrapping of the Centre’s new agri laws. FarmerRead More

Karnal/Bathinda/Palwal, February 6 Farmers on Saturday parked their tractor-trailers in the middle of roads and raised slogans against the Centre during a three-hour-long “chakka jam” agitation in Punjab and Haryana. Women took part in the stir in a sizeable number at several places. The call for the nationwide “chakka jam”Read More

New Delhi, February 6 Protesting farmer unions on Saturday said they were ready to resume talks with the government, but asked it to come up with a fresh proposal as the existing offer to put the three farm laws on hold for 12-18 months is not acceptable to them. TheRead More

New Delhi, February 4 Fifteen MPs from 10 opposition parties, including the SAD, DMK, NCP and the Trinamool Congress, were stopped by police from reaching Ghazipur border on Thursday to meet farmers protesting against new farm laws, a SAD leader said. According to SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal who coordinatedRead More

Chandigarh, February 4 Documents and files related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents have been handed over by the CBI to the Punjab Police, a state government statement issued here on Thursday said. “The documents and files relating to the cases were handed over to the Punjab Police hours before theRead More

Faridkot, February 3 About a month after the resumption of physical classes for all students of day schools in the state, the school education department has now decided to open 10 meritorious schools — the residential/boarding schools in the state. These schools will resume functioning on February 9 but allRead More

Chandigarh, February 2 Amid boycott by the BJP and walkout by AAP leaders, the all-party meeting led by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday demanded immediate withdrawal of the three central farm laws. It also condemned the “sponsored” violence in Delhi and decided that an all-party delegation will goRead More

New Delhi, February 3 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday threatened legal action against his Punjab counterpart Amarinder Singh for allegedly sharing a “doctored” video of him on social media. Kejriwal accused Singh of resorting to dirty politics for political survival. In the video shared on Twitter by Singh’sRead More

Sonepat, January 31 Farmer leaders on Sunday said a committee has been formed to trace those missing after the January 26 ‘tractor march’ to Delhi. Addressing mediapersons, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 32 farmer organisations, said, “As many as 163 people who have been arrested by the DelhiRead More