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Why did Punjab govt not challenge extended BSF jurisdiction by Centre, ask
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tewari on Monday asked the Punjab government why it had not challenged the extended jurisdiction of the Border Security Force (BSF) in border states by the Central government.
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Punjab to move SC against Centre's decision to extend jurisdiction of BSF,
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 25 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday said that the state government will approach the Supreme Court against the Centre's decision to enhance the jurisdiction of the Border Security Force (BSF) in the border state.
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Like Punjab, Bengal also protesting against Centre's move to increase BSF
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], October 25 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that like Punjab, they are also protesting against the Centre's decision to increase search and arrest jurisdiction of BSF in border states.
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Punjab CM writes to PM Modi, seeks restoration of status quo on notificati
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 22 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to relook into the Centre's move to increase BSF's jurisdiction for arrests and searches in state and other border states and said that status quo that exi
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Don't upset Punjab farmers, country witnessed ramification of unstable bor
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], October 17 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday urged the Centre to handle farmers' agitation with sensitivity and not to upset the farmers as most of the protesters are from Punjab, a border state.
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Extending BSF's jurisdiction to pose adverse impact on Punjab, state govt
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 14 (ANI): Congress MP (Lok Sabha) Manish Tewari said on Thursday said that the Centre's recent order extending the jurisdiction of the Border Security Force (BSF) in border states could have potentially negative consequences for Punjab and the State Gover
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Centre trying to suppress rights of States to hide its shortcomings: AAP o
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 14 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday alleged that the Centre is trying to suppress the rights of the States to hide its own shortcomings by giving additional powers to the Border Security Force (BSF) in the border states.
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BSF now has uniform 50 km jurisdiction in border states for arrest, search
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 13 (ANI) In a move aimed at maintaining "zero tolerance" against terrorism and cross border crimes, the Centre has empowered the Border Security Force (BSF) to conduct searches, arrest suspects and make seizures up to an area of 50 km inside Indian territory from I
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Manish Tewari expresses 'extreme distress' over Punjab Cong crisis
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): Expressing concerns over another round of crisis in the Punjab unit of Congress, Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari said that he is "extremely distressed" after Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation as party's state unit chief and claimed that the only peopl
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Capt Amarinder Singh steps down as Punjab Chief Minister
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 18 (ANI): Embattled Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh stepped down from his post on Saturday ahead of the meeting of party legislators in the faction-ridden state unit as the party high command decided to effect a change of guard in the b
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Australia's Victoria to close borders with neighboring states amid surge i
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Victoria [Australia] July 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Australia's state of Victoria is closing its borders to New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Capital Territory (ACT) on Sunday amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in NSW, the state's Department of Health said.
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Denmark loans unwanted 55,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to Schleswig-Holstein,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], Apr 22 (ANI): The Danish Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that Denmark will loan unwanted 55,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the neighbouring German border state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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