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Kejriwal joins anti-farm laws protest at Jantar Mantar, demands rollback; AAP MP, workers detained

10:14 pm October 12, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday demanded a complete rollback of the three contentious central farm laws as he attended a protest by the Punjab unit of Aam Aadmi Party at the historic Jantar Mantar here. The Delhi Police later said they briefly detained AAP MP Bhagwant Mann and over a hundred protesting workers after “they started getting agitated”. […]

Man shot dead near toll plaza in Punjab

11:46 pm October 5, 2020

Hoshiarpur: Unidentified armed assailants shot dead a man near a toll plaza in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district on Monday, police said. Anakhveer Singh, a resident of Nangal village, was shot dead near the Lachowal toll plaza on the Hoshiarpur-Tanda road in the evening, according to the police. Singh, who ran a drug de-addiction centre, was going towards […]

Navjot Sidhu attends Rahul Gandhi-led tractor rally in Pb’s Moga, slams Centre over farm laws

10:51 pm October 4, 2020

Moga: Punjab MLA and former state cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday attended a tractor rally led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi here to protest the Centre’s new farm laws. Gandhi arrived here on Sunday for holding tractor rallies across Punjab from October 4 to 6. The rallies, named ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’, would cover more than 50 km in various districts and […]

BJP loses its two oldest allies within a year

7:05 pm September 27, 2020

New Delhi: With the Shiromani Akali Dal snapping its ties with the BJP, the saffron party has lost its by far two most dependable and ideologically-bound allies within a year even as its own political strength has risen like never before under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Akali Dal’s departure from the […]

BJP’s oldest ally SAD quits NDA over farm bills

11:58 pm September 26, 2020

Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday quit the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the farm bills issue, the third major party to walk out of the BJP-led coalition in the last couple of years. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal announced the decision to snap ties with the NDA on Saturday night, amid stepped up agitation by farmers in Punjab over the three […]