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Country saddened by insult to Tricolour on Republic Day: PM Modi

3:29 pm January 31, 2021

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the country was saddened by the ”insult” to the Tricolour on Republic Day, referring to the religious flag incident at Red Fort during the farmers’ tractor parade. In his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ broadcast, Modi maintained that his government is committed to ”modernising” farming and has been taking many […]

More and more farmers heading towards Delhi borders from Punjab

11:14 pm January 30, 2021

Chandigarh : After briefly appearing to be fizzling out following the Republic Day violence in Delhi, the farmers’ stir against the agri laws on Saturday seemed to be reviving with more and more of farmers groups heading to the national capital from various parts of Punjab. Various farmer leaders on Saturday claimed that with more and […]

Bajwa urges CM to use resources to find missing farmers

8:51 pm January 30, 2021

Chandigarh : Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa on Saturday urged Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to use all available sources to trace over 100 farmers who have been “missing” since January 26 tractor rally in Delhi. Citing some media reports, Bajwa wrote to Amarinder Singh, saying “over 100 farmers from the state have been missing since the incidents that occurred on January 26 in Delhi”. […]

4-year-old British Sikh girl joins Mensa club of high IQ kids

7:29 pm January 30, 2021

London : A four-year-old British Sikh girl has become one of the youngest in the UK to be accepted into the elite Mensa membership club of children with a high intelligence quotient (IQ). Dayaal Kaur, who lives with her family in Birmingham, displayed exceptional learning abilities from very early on and had mastered the entire English alphabet by […]

Farmer outfits start mobilising peasants in Punjab, Haryana to join protest sites on Delhi borders

11:14 pm January 29, 2021

Chandigarh: Farmer outfits on Friday started mobilising more batches of peasants from Haryana and Punjab to head towards Delhi’s borders to join the ongoing agitation against agri laws, even as political parties such as the SAD and the INLD threw their weight behind them. At some places in Haryana, including Jind, Hisar, Bhiwani and Rohtak, batches of peasants headed towards various border points of Delhi, their […]