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Singhu, Auchandi, Piau Maniyari, Mangesh borders closed for traffic: Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): The Singhu border, along with Auchandi, Piau Maniyari, and Mangesh borders have been closed for traffic, the Delhi Traffic Police said on Friday due to the ongoing farmers' protest.
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Farmer in UP's Shamli sells cauliflower at Rs 10/kg digitally after Ravi S
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): A day after a farmer in Mayapuri village of Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district destroyed his standing crop of cauliflowers, claiming that he was being forced to sell his produce at Rs 1 kilogram-- much below the cost price, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasa
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Volunteers launch newsletter Trolley Times for protesting farmers
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): As the ongoing farmers' protest entered the 23rd day at the Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital, a group of volunteers launched a newsletter named 'Trolley Times' on Friday.
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Badal writes to Kovind seeking intervention to conduct winter session of P
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India] December 18 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday called upon President Ram Nath Kovind and urged his intervention to immediately convene the winter session of the Parliament.
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Makeshift library set up at Singhu border, amid farmers' protests
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Amid the farmers' protest, a library-cum-cultural centre has been set up at Singhu border which aims to provide books and newspapers for youth and also imparts school education to students from nearby slums.
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If you want credit, take it and withdraw the farm laws: Yechury to PM
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): After Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested the opposition political parties with "folded hands" to keep all the credit for the agricultural sector reforms on Friday, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury slammed the "mann
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Sonia Gandhi to hold important meeting with Congress leaders tomorrow
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Congress party's interim president Sonia Gandhi has called for a meeting of senior party leaders on Saturday to formulate the party's strategy on the current political scenario amid the ongoing farmers' agitation against farm laws. The meeting will co
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UPA supporters are misguiding farmers, says Smriti Irani
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 18 (ANI): Amid the ongoing farmers' agitation in the country, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said the parties which were members of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) were misguiding farmers about the three agriculture laws.
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Fight is against three farm laws, not the govt, says boxer Vijender Singh
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Boxer and Congress leader Vijender Singh on Friday distributed food at a langar organised by the Jamindara Student Organisation (JSO) for protesting farmers at the Tikri Border on Friday.
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Congress shedding crocodile tears on farmers' issue, says CM Chouhan
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 18 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday addressed a Kisan Kalyan (farmers' welfare) event in Raisen and welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the conference.
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If Anna Hazare can rally in Delhi, then why can't farmers, questions Congr
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, on Friday, slammed the Centre by questioning that if social activist Anna Hazare can rally in the national capital, then why farmers are not allowed to enter Delhi and stage the protest.
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Kamal Nath govt didn't fulfill promise of loan waiver, says Madhya Pradesh
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 18 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday slammed the previous Congress government that ruled the state, saying that they did not fulfill the promise of loan waiver, rather "destroyed" the position of Cooperative banks i
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