Tag: Punjab
With protesting farmers from Punjab assembling at the Delhi-Haryana borders on Thursday morning, the police in the national capital stepped up security and put barricades at several places. The police said they have denied the requests from the farmers' groups to hold protests in Delhi. ....
As the farmers' agitation entered the seventh day on Wednesday, over a dozen kabaddi players, wrestlers and singers from Punjab joined the protest, extending their support to more than 32 farmers unions leading thousands of protestors. ....
Scores of agitated farmers on Thursday blocked the National Highway-9, leading to the closure of a key flyover which connects Uttar Pradesh to the national capital in a bid to show their resentment against the three farm laws. ....
The Bundelkhand Kisan Union (BKU) has announced its support to the farmers' demand for convening a special session of Parliament to repeal the Centre's three farm laws.....
Dubbing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as a "coward" who had run scared and apologised when cornered in a defamation case by SAD's Bikram Majithia, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said Kejriwal's desperate attempts to hide his government's "utter failure" to protect the farmers' interests will not save him from their wrath, nor will they safeguard his party from being decimated in the next Punjab Assembly election. ....
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi MLA Naresh Yadav, who was named one of the accused in a Quran Sharif sacrilege case in Punjab's Malerkotla, was acquitted by the Sangrur district court on Tuesday. ....
Even as he termed their Republic Day tractor rally a testimony to the celebration of the Indian Republic and its constitutional ethos, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday appealed to the farmers to ensure that the event remains peaceful, just as their anti-farm law protests have been so far. ....
Terming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tarun Chugh's remarks on his 'army background' as reprehensible, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday quipped, "what does the BJP or its leadership know of army honour or the grace of the national flag, in which the bodies of "our Punjabi brothers come wrapped from the borders every second day?" ....
With more than 100 farmers from the state going 'missing' after the Republic Day violence in Delhi, Punjab ministers led by Sukhjinder Randhawa and Member of Parliament Manish Tewari on Monday met Home Minister Amit Shah here to seek his intervention to known about their whereabouts. ....
At Thursday's mini auction, South African fast bowling all-rounder Chris Morris set an all-time record of Rs.16.25 crore in the Indian Premier League (IPL), beating Yuvraj Singh's Rs.16 crore, a price that Delhi Daredevils had paid to buy him in 2015. ....