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As Delhi records 'severe' AQI, farmers in Amritsar continue to burn stubbl
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], November 10 (ANI): Farmers in Amritsar continued to burn stubble on their fields even as neighbouring Delhi choked with Air Quality Index (AQI) remaining well over 400, in the "severe" category, on Tuesday.
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Punjab CM terms Railway's decision to link goods train movement with passe
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], November 9 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday dubbed the Railways' decision to link the movement of goods trains in the state with passenger trains as totally "irrational and illogical".
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Maha govt to distribute Rs 2,297.637 cr as first installment for flood rel
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 9 (ANI): Maharashtra government on Monday issued a notification to distribute Rs 2,297.637 crores as the first installment of relief compensation for farmers affected by heavy rains and floods between the months of June to October in various districts o
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Let soldiers come home for Diwali, vacate rail tracks: Punjab CM to farmer
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], November 9 (ANI): Urging the agitating farmers to allow "Punjabis, including soldiers," to come back home for Diwali, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday appealed to the state kisan unions to lift their rail blockade completely, thus allowing the movem
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15 farmers 'missing' after Pak police stop them from demonstrating, petiti
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], November 9 (ANI): Farmers protesting in Punjab last week demanding their rights have no clue about the whereabouts of their 15 colleagues who went missing after the police began baton charging their protest and arrested around 250 farmers on Multan Road, Dawn reported.
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Seasonal crops getting damaged: Udhampur farmers
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 7 (ANI): As rainfall continues to be scarce in parts of Jammu and Kashmir, farmers of Sunal panchayat in Udhampur district complain that seasonal crops are getting damaged.
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Resolve stand-off over farmers' agitation or Pakistan can foment trouble:
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 7 (ANI): Amid the stand-off between the Centre and Punjab over farm laws and disruption in goods train services, the Congress MPs from the state held a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday, apprising him of their concern that Pakistani intelligen
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Goods train services will resume soon in Punjab: Congress MP after meeting
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], November 7 (ANI): The Members of Parliament from Punjab, met rail Home Minister Amit Shah over goods-train suspension in the state on Saturday.
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We are working on issue of air pollution, says UP Minister after Mayawati,
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 7 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh minister Brijesh Pathak on Saturday reacted to the allegations of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav that the government is "sending farmers to jail in the name of environmental pollution."
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Farmers at 21 locations in State have vacated sites to allow train movemen
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 7 (ANI): The Punjab Government on Saturday said that farmers who had been protesting at 21 locations in the State against the Centre's new agricultural laws have vacated all sites to allow movement of freight trains.
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Atrocities on farmers under guise of stubble burning 'extremely condemnabl
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 7 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (SP) chief Mayawati on Saturday said that oppression of farmers under the guise of pollution caused by stubble burning is "extremely condemnable" and urging the state government to provide necessary help to them before ta
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Can start train operations in Punjab only if track, stations are clear: Ra
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 6 (ANI): Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav on Friday said that Railways can start train operations in Punjab only if track and stations are clear for running of all trains.
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