Punjab

Iron nails fixed on roads at Ghazipur border being ‘repositioned’, says Delhi Police

2:40 pm February 4, 2021

New Delhi: Iron nails studded on roads at Ghazipur border to restrict the movement of farmers agitating against the new agri laws are being ”repositioned”, a senior police officer said on Thursday. The statement comes after videos and photos of workers removing the nails near Ghazipur border surfaced on social media. Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Deepak Yadav asserted that the […]

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

Two sisters claim ownership of land offered for Ayodhya mosque, move court

11:43 pm February 3, 2021

Lucknow: Two Delhi-based sisters moved the Allahabad High Court Wednesday claiming the ownership of five-acre land allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhya in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case. The petition before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad HC was filed in the court’s registry and is likely to come up for hearing on February […]

Ghazipur turns fortress, nails cemented on roads leading to farmers’ protest site

8:43 pm February 1, 2021

Ghaziabad: The Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur turned into a fortress Monday with multi-layer barricades and a heavy security deployment at the site where farmers are protesting against the new central laws. Protesters are pouring in as Bharatiya Kisan Union members and its leader Rakesh Tikait stay pitched at UP Gate, occupying a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut highway since November. Hundreds of security personnel, […]

Govt committed to farmers’ welfare, MSP system strengthened, sharp increase in payment to farmers: FM

2:16 pm February 1, 2021

New Delhi: Stressed that the government is committed to farmers’ welfare, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the MSP regime has undergone a ”sea change” to assure price at least 1.5 times of production cost with sharp increase in procurement of foodgrains and payment to farmers. In her budget speech for the next fiscal, she said the procurement […]

Two Army jawans killed in road accident in Mathura

11:31 pm January 31, 2021

Mathura: Two Army soldiers were killed on Sunday morning when the SUV they were travelling in crashed against the divider on Yamuna Expressway near Lakhutia Paar village here, police said. “The deceased have been identified as 42-year-old Lance Naik Gurubux, a resident of Tarn Taran in Punjab and 36-year-old Lance Naik Pradeep from Gwalior,” the police said. Both men were identified from their Army ID cards, police said, […]