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Punjab teacher cycles 225 km to join farmers' protest at Tikri border
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Manoj Kumar, who is employed as a teacher in a government school in Punjab's Sangrur district, cycled 225 kilometres to reach Delhi's Tikri border on Monday to express solidarity with the farmers who have been protesting the agricultural laws for over a m
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Punjab Minister sits on hunger strike to express solidarity with farmers
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], December 24 (ANI): Expressing solidarity with the Punjab farmers on three Agriculture Laws, Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla sat on one-day hunger-strike on Wednesday in Sangrur.
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Pakistan High Commission official injured in accident at Punjab's Sangrur
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], November 29 (ANI): A Pakistan High Commission official, along with an Indian driver, was injured on Sunday after his vehicle rammed into a truck on the way to the Attari border.
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Go on hunger strike instead of dharna for farm law repeal: SAD chief to Pu
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], November 3 (ANI): Reacting to Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh's decision to start a relay dharna at Rajghat in Delhi, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday said that rather than a dharna, the CM should start an indefinite h
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Request Rahul Gandhi to scrap new farm laws when he becomes PM: Punjab CM
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], October 5 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday requested Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to scrap new farm laws when he becomes the "Prime Minister with a majority in the Lok Sabha".
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Instead of resolving mandi-MSP-PDS issues, PM is killing farmers: Rahul in
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], October 5 (ANI): Accepting that there are shortcomings in the mandi system, Public Distribution System (PDS) and the Minimum Support Price (MSP), Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, instead of resolving them, is "killing
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Cong to launch 'Kisan Yatra' from Punjab against farm laws, Rahul Gandhi t
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): Congress is launching a 'Kisan Yatra' from Punjab against the recent farm laws. It will begin from Punjab's Sangrur this week and will end in Delhi covering various districts of Punjab and Haryana.
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First person who tested COVID-19 positive in Sangrur district has recovere
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], April 22 (ANI): The first person to have been tested coronavirus positive from village Gaggarpur in Sangrur district has recovered, said KBS Sidhu, Special Chief Secretary, Punjab, on Wednesday.
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Punjab to use Meritorious Schools COVID-19 care isolation centres
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], April 15 (ANI): Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Wednesday said that in order to contain COVID-19 from the further spread, the Education Department has extended its full support to district authorities and Health Department.
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Police arrests eight for transporting liquor during lockdown in Punjab
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Sangrur (Punjab) [India], April 7 (ANI): Amid the nationwide lockdown, Dirba Police in Sangrur district on Tuesday arrested eight people for transporting liquor from Dirba to Dharamgarh.
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AFI to assess the conduct of Indian Grand Prix 2020
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 14 (ANI): The competition committee of Athletics Federation of India (AFI) held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the conduct of the upcoming Indian Grand Prix (IGP) series competitions in view of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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SAD describes Taksalis Sangrur event as 'mega flop show'
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Feb 23 (ANI): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday described the public gathering of "Taksalis" and dozen other factions "supported by the Congress" party in Sangrur as a "mega flop show."
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