Muzaffarnagar

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PM says govt proposal to protesters stands; Stir against agri laws regains momentum after Tikait mobilises support from western UP

10:52 pm January 30, 2021

Ghaziabad: The agitation against the farm laws appeared to regain momentum on Saturday after rallying support from the agricultural community of the crucial western Uttar Pradesh region, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed that his government’s proposal to protesting farmers stands and it is a ”phone call away” for talks. Farmer leaders held a day-long fast on Mahatma Gandhi’s death […]

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait to address Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jaipur

Rakesh Tikait is the cynosure of many eyes – not just farmers

8:44 pm January 30, 2021

New Delhi: His tears exercised an emotive pull even he may not have envisaged, helping turn the tide for a movement that seemed to have lost both sheen and momentum after the violence on Republic Day. It was but a moment in time and Rakesh Tikait was the man in it. He was once a Delhi Police constable, tried […]

Villagers bring food, water for Tikait as BKU digs heels at Ghazipur border

8:39 pm January 30, 2021

Ghaziabad: Villagers brought water in clay pots and home-made food for Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday in a show of support for the ongoing stir against the new farm laws, even as local authorities sent tankers of drinking water and mobile toilets at the protest site. Tikait urged the government to restore internet services, […]

More farmers pour into protest site at Ghazipur border, extra forces withdrawn

2:54 pm January 29, 2021

Ghaziabad: Crowds swelled on the Ghazipur border on Friday as around 1000 farmers from western Uttar Pradesh joined the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) members who have stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway to demand repeal of agri laws, while several farmers from Haryana decided to move towards Delhi borders to join the stir. Notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum to the protestors to vacate the UP Gate protest site, more farmers from […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Fake cement manufacturing unit unearthed in Muzaffarnagar, one arrested

8:02 pm January 13, 2021

Muzaffarnagar : A fake cement manufacturing unit was unearthed and more than 2,000 bags of the adulterated construction material were seized in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. An employee of the factory was arrested while a search is on for its owner Rajesh Singhal, the police said. According to New Mandi police station SHO Yogesh […]