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Punjab: Unseasonal rains, hailstorms damage farmers crops
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], October 24 (ANI): Unseasonal rains and hailstorms have damaged crops in Varpal village of Amritsar.
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Punjab: Channi announces Rs 1 cr for sport stadium in 'memory of farmers'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 23 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday announced to grant Rs 1 crore for the construction of a sports stadium at Haripur village in the "memory of farmers who sacrificed their lives during the agitation against farm laws".
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Punjab CM Channi reiterates his support for farmers protesting against far
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 23 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday reiterated his support to the farmers who have been protesting for a year against the three farm laws enacted by the Union Government.
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UP govt should give farmers the rights they deserve, says BJP MP Varun Gan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 23 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday alleged that farmers in Uttar Pradesh are not getting appropriate price for their crops and urged the Yogi Adityanath-led state government to give farmers the rights that the
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3 more arrested in Lakhimpur Kheri Violence Case
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 23 (ANI): A SWAT team of the Uttar Pradesh Crime Branch on Saturday arrested three more persons in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case taking the total number of arrests to 13.
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Priyanka Gandhi interacts with women farmers in UP's Barabanki
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 23 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday interacted with women farmers at an agricultural farm in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki, from where she would flag-off the 'Pratigya Yatra' today.
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No rationale for farmers' protest as SC already stayed farm laws, says UP
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday said that there is no rationale for the farmers' protest as the Supreme Court has already stayed the farm laws.
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Haryana: One held for assaulting farm worker at Singhu border
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], October 22 (ANI): A Nihang Sikh has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a poultry farm worker and fracturing his leg at the Singhu border in Sonipat after the latter refused to give him chicken for free, said Haryana Police on Friday.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu is a fraud, cheat, clueless about interests of Punjab,
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 21 (ANI): Calling Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu a "fraud and cheat", former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said Sidhu is clueless about the state's and its farmers' interests.
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Farmers have right to protest, but can't block roads, says SC
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said that farmers have the right to protest but roads cannot be blocked indefinitely.
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Perform Lakhbir Singh's 'bhog' as per Sikh tradition: SC Commission urges
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], October 21 (ANI): Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vijay Sampla on Wednesday condemned that no religious practice was allowed to perform during the last rite rituals of Lakhbir Singh, whose mutilated body was found hanging on a police barrica
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'Rail Roko' protest had hugely hit coal train movement amid shortage, say
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 20 (ANI): At least 46 railway rakes carrying coal to the power plants were stuck as farmers held a nationwide 'Rail Roko' protest on Monday, officials said.
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