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New Delhi, Feb 17 : Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said the ‘Rail Roko Andolan’ would take place on Thursday from 12 p.m.to 4 p.m. across the country.Tikait told IANS that the Central government was not permitting many…

New Delhi, Feb 17 : A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Wednesday analysed budgetary allocation and expenditure of Ministry of Defence, which has been allocated Rs 4,78,196 crore in the Budget 2021-2022.Expenditure on salaries of armed forces and c…

New Delhi, Feb 17 : Farmers protesting against the three farm laws on the borders of Delhi have decided to use social media to tell the truth amid news of the borders being vacated.Farmer leader Jagtar Singh Bajwa told IANS, “We are not angry with th…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : Protesting farmers at Singhu border on Tuesday remembered ‘Sir Chhotu Ram’, a prominent farm leader and politician in pre-Indepedent India, on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary.It is believed that Chhotu Ram was born on …

New Delhi, Feb 16 : With an earlier Bill adopted by the Punjab Assembly to negate the contentious central farm laws still awaiting a nod from the Governor, the state’s Congress government plans to bring yet another Bill on the issue in the House, par…

Kochi, Feb 16 : The controversial Life Mission housing project that shook the Pinarayi Vijayan government, on Tuesday took a new turn when the Customs department arrested Santhosh Eapen, whose company – Unitac Builders – was entrusted with the constr…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : He was born in the family of a farmer who, though he bore the name Gaekwad, was considered to be to the cadet branch of the Baroda royal family or that of the younger sons of a previous ruler and thus not eligible to succeed to t…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : The Delhi Police have written to Zoom seeking information about the attendees who joined a virtual meeting on January 11.The meeting was organised by the Poetic Justice Foundation in which the modalities of the Global Day of Actio…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : Farmers sitting on protest at Singhu on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border for over 80 days organised a ‘havan’ on ‘Basant Panchami’ on Tuesday to purify the environment and to pray to God to make Prime Minister “understand the issues…

New Delhi, Feb 16 : The likelihood of either thing happening remains zero even though the protest venue has seen some high-profile visitors in the recent days, including many Pashtun activists like Afrasiab Khattak, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) lea…