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Stubble burning cases in Punjab 25 pc less than last year: Environment eng
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India] November 8, (ANI): A total of 32,734 cases of stubble burning have been reported in Punjab from mid-September till now and the average number of fires is 25% less as compared to last year, according to Samita, environmental engineer, Punjab State Pollution Control B
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Punjab farmers demand Rs 7,000 per acre compensation to stop stubble burni
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], November 8 (ANI): Stubble burning continued in Punjab on Monday amid 'severe' Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi.
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Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SC proposes to appoint former HC judge to monito
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday proposed to appoint a former High Court judge to monitor the ongoing investigation into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case where eight persons, including four farmers, were killed during a farmers' protest.
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Unseasonal rains ruin crops, adversely affect farmers in UP's Sambhal
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 8 (ANI): Heavy, unseasonal rains in the Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh last month destroyed crops causing financial losses to the farmers.
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SC begins hearing cases relating to Lakhimpur Kheri violence
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court began hearing the cases related to the October 3 violence in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight persons, including four farmers, were killed during a farmers' protest.
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No condolence from GoI over farmers' death in farm movement, says Rakesh T
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday hit out at the Central government and said there was no condolence from the Government of India over farmers' death in the farm movement.
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Will cut your tongue if you don't refrain from loose talk, Telangana CM wa
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 7 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday lashed out at the BJP-led Centre and warned the party's state chief Bandi Sanjay to refrain from loose talk or else "we will cut your tongue."
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When PM Modi praised BJP's performance in two bypolls that the party lost
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday while addressing the national executive meeting in Delhi said that the farmers' agitation in Haryana and Punjab is not by the common people and surely it isn't against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Centre did not condole deaths of 600 people protesting against farm laws:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], November 7 (ANI): Meghalaya Governor Satyapal Malik on Sunday said that 600 people have died protesting against the three contentious farm laws, but no condolences have come from the Centre.
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If SKM says, we are ready to march towards Parliament on Nov 26: Haryana B
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Rohtak (Haryana) [India], November 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Kisan Union (Haryana) president Gurnam Singh Chaduni on Sunday said that if Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation of around 40 farm unions, protesting against three farm laws, approves then BKU will march towards Parliamen
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Kisan Ekta Morcha slams screening of 'Sooryavanshi' in Punjab
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 7 (ANI): Kisan Ekta Morcha, a farmer union on Saturday voiced against the screening of a Bollywood movie 'Sooryavanshi' in Punjab as the cast and crew in the movie did not support farmer protests.
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Corrupt Congress, it's CM only interested in loot, scoot: Sukhbir Singh Ba
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], November 6 (ANI): Terming the Congress-led Punjab government 'corrupt' Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday slammed Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, claiming that SAD workers who were 'peacefully' protesting to 'raise farmers' voi
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