Twenty-six-year-old farmer Navdeep Singh, an icon of farmers agitation who managed to climb on a police cannon and turned off the high-velocity water stream direction from protesting farmer, has been charged with attempt to murder by Haryana Police.A video depicting his...

Even as Delhi Police is busy tackling farmers rallying at Singhu and Tikri entry/exit points on the Delhi-Haryana border, it was put on alert on Saturday after inputs that farmers might open another front on the Delhi-UP border too.All police districts in...

Even as the Delhi Police has allowed farmers to visit Burari ground in north Delhi to hold their protest against three central farm laws, a couple of good Samaritans are offering free 'langar sewa' or community kitchen food there to ensure that no one goes...

Traffic movement on both sides at Singhu and Tikri continued to be disrupted for the second day on Saturday as farmers planning to hold protest in Delhi rallied at these interstate borders and were reluctant to move to Burari where they were allowed to move...

The Saturday sun rose as farmers at Delhi's Singhu and Tikri borders woke up ready to push through another day of protests, and slogans of "black laws" greeted the chilly morning air.Amid high security arrangements, the sloganeering continued on both the...

After the day-long confrontation at Delhi-Haryana's Singhu and Tikri borders, the Delhi Police on Friday finally allowed thousands of farmers to enter Delhi for a planned protest against the new Central farm laws.Even after the Delhi Police announced that...

Delhi Police on Friday made the necessary arrangements at the Nirankari ground in Burari after they gave permission to the protesting farmers to enter Delhi and stage a protest at the designated ground.Some representatives of the farmers also inspected the...

Bracing tear gas and water cannons for the second day on Friday, another batch of protesting farmers, numbering in thousands, from the interiors of Punjab breached the massive blockades comprising huge boulders, barbed fences and mounds of earth on the Bathinda-Dabwali...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs on Friday stormed the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid chanting slogans against his government at the Centre, demanding repeal of the anti-farmer central agriculture marketing laws.The massive protests by...

Aam Aadmi Party leader Jarnail Singh was taken into custody by the Delhi Police near the Prime Minister's residence when he tried to launch a protest in support of the farmers agitation against farm laws.Jarnail Singh is in-charge of the Aam Aadmi Party...

After hours of confrontation and talks with the farmers the Delhi Police finally on Friday afternoon allowed the farmers to enter Delhi. They will be escorted to Nirankari ground in Burari for carrying on their protests against the Centre's Farm Laws."After...

While one group of farmers prepared lunch for the protesters at Singhu on Delhi-Haryana border, another group launched stones after waiting for hours to secure entry inside the national capital.According to reports, a Delhi Police personnel has been injured...

Bracing tear gas and water cannons, another batch of a large number of protesting farmers from Punjab on Friday breached the massive blockades comprising huge boulders, barbed fence and mounds of earth on the Bathinda-Dabwali road to enter Haryana on their onward...

After over four hours of tug of war between the security forces comprising Delhi Police and the paramilitary on one side and the tens of thousands of farmers on the other side of the national capital periphery that saw water cannons gushing out chilled showers...

Hundreds of vehicles, including trucks and buses, were stranded on the national highways across Haryana on Thursday as the police put up barricades to prevent the protesting farmers from moving towards the national capital as part of their 'Dilli Chalo' agitation.Long...

Tens of thousands of farmers on Thursday practically rose up in arms as they braved tear-gas shells and water cannons, managed to break police barricades ahead of the Punjab-Haryana border in Shambhu near Ambala. Several protesters and policemen were injured.The...

Hundreds of farmers from Punjab started gathering on Wednesday morning on the interstate borders along Haryana that has restricted their movement towards national capital Delhi for their 'Delhi Chalo' protest against the three central farm laws.As a preventive...

Punjab's economy, which comprises 75 per cent of the farming community, is facing derailment with the Centre virtually applying brakes to the goods trains to the state.It is already facing acute power shortage with cuts lasting up to five hours in many parts...

Hundreds of Gujjar community members on Thursday staged a protest at Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) flyway demanding justice to Aman Baisla, who committed suicide last month after uploading a video on social media.Following the protest, there was traffic snarl stretching...

Even as 23 COVID-19 patients were shifted out or discharged from Hindu Rao Hospital (HRH) to LNJP Hospital on Saturday after HRH doctors decided to withdraw from COVID duties from Sunday onwards to protest non-payment of salary dues, the North MCD Mayor flayed...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs on Friday staged a ‘dharna’ outside the Punjab Assembly, demanding that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh should immediately convene an all-party meeting, in which representatives farmers' organizations, farm experts and other stake...

Two persons were crushed to death in a road accident in Delhi on Wednesday after a truck fell on a car, the police said.The two were killed when the large truck overturned in the Lajpat Nagar area.The deceased were identified as 35-year-old Ankit Malhotra,...

The Federation of Resident Doctors Association has shot a letter to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and Commissioner of North Delhi Municipal Corporation over the non-payment of salaries to doctors and staffers of the Hindu Rao Hospital from the last...

For the past few months India had become used to webinars and other virtual gatherings on social media either to register a protest or push a campaign because of Covid-19. However, the Hathras tragedy has once again brought people out on the streets protesting...

The Delhi Congress and the Youth Congress on Thursday staged a protest near India Gate and Shastri Bhawan over the alleged illegal detention of former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Uttar Pradesh's Noida...

Delhi Police on Wednesday detained at least 80 persons who staged a protest over the Hathras gangrape case. This includes 36 men and 44 women."Today around 11.30 pm, members of different parties - AIDWA, DSDU, AISA AIMSS - tried to reach UP Bhawan, SP Marg...

A day after President Ram Nath Kovind signed the Agriculture Bills and made them laws, the Punjab Youth Congress workers on Monday set ablaze a tractor in the high security India Gate area to protest against the contentious legislation. The Delhi Police...

Rail roko in Punjab, blockades in Haryana, agitations in Maharashtra and scattered protests in Uttar Pradesh -- India saw farmers question the recently passed three agricultural Bills that they perceive as 'anti-farmer' which the Centre insists are in the...

The Left parties and Congress on Friday staged protests in Telangana as part of the nation-wide agitation against contentious farm bills passed by the Parliament.The CPI and CPI-M, their affiliated organisations, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and other farmers'...

Hundreds of Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) workers in Andhra Pradesh are protesting the new farm bills which the Parliament cleared recently, accusing them of being anti-farmer and in favour of business corporations."The farm bills will cause great injustice...

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday held protests across Punjab as part of its "chakka jam" programme to express solidarity with farmers even as it asked Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to call an immediate Cabinet meeting over the agriculture Bills.It...

Thousands of farmers blocked roads, held huge rallies and staged demonstrations in cities and towns across Karnataka on Friday against the farm Bills of the Centre and the Bills the state government has proposed to amend the APMC Act and Land Reforms Act."We have...

As part of the nationwide stir, members of farmers' bodies belonging to the Left parties and West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress staged sporadic protests in various parts of the state demanding withdrawal of the 'anti-people' farm Bills passed recently...

Members of some farmers organisations and the two Left parties protested in various parts of Tamil Nadu on Friday against the three farm Bills passed by the Parliament.Led by the Tamil Nadu Farmers' Association President P. Ayyakannu, half-clad farmers, carrying...

SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal has demanded that the whole of Punjab should be declared a 'principal market yard' for agricultural produce to ensure that laws based on the three passed agricultural Bills do not apply in the northern state."This is the...

Cutting across party lines, the day-long statewide protests by farmers evoked a good response in Punjab and Haryana as normal life was disrupted, but in Chandigarh it was almost normal.Rail traffic across Punjab was badly hit as farmers, farm labourers, commission...

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been lying low since his resignation as Punjab Minister in July last year, on Wednesday hit the streets of his hometown to resume his connect with the people by launching a protest against the "black" farm laws passed by the...

In the wake of passage of three agriculture-related Bills and other proposed legislations, lawmakers of the Congress and other opposition parties on Wednesday continued to protest in the Parliament complex here.The protesting lawmakers marched from Gandhi's...

The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) took out a tractor rally in Haryana's Panipat on Wednesday to protest against the Narendra Modi government over the Farm Bills passed by Parliament, describing it as anti-farmer and anti-worker.Hundreds of Youth Congress activists...

Haryana Police on Wednesday used water cannons to disperse farmers from Punjab, led by two Lok Insaaf Party legislators, as they were heading to Delhi to protest against the three agriculture Bills.The legislators -- Simarjeet Bains and his elder brother Balwinder...

Hundreds of irate commuters bound for Mumbai, Thane and other places staged an impromptu rail-roko agitation at Nala Sopara station on Wednesday to demand resumption of regular suburban train services discontinued due to spike in Covid cases.The agitated commuters...

Thousands of farmers, laborers and women today gheraoed the house of Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal, President Akali Dal and staged a massive dharna against the Centre's agricultural three ordinances and power amendment bill 2020 in...

Rashtriya Ekta Samaj, a fringe outfit, on Tuesday held a protest outside the Pakistan Embassy in Kathmandu, accusing the Pakistan government of destroying Hindu and Buddhist temples in that country.They also burnt Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's effigies...

As many as 200 workers for not getting wages for the last 15 months from the contractor of BSNL, on Tuesday, three workers climbed atop the tower, to press for the release of wages and threatened to end their lives. The BSNL Casual Contract Workers Union...

40-year-old, Rural Pharmacy Officer posted at Bazidpur Rural Dispensary, perturbed over non-regularisation of his services, tried to commit suicide amid ongoing strike  for the last 19 days, for seeking regularization of services, in front of the Zila Parishad...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab on Friday held an hour-long state-wide protest against the Captain Amarinder Singh government to reiterate its demand for immediate release of financial aid of Rs 50 lakh to the bereaved family of PRTC driver Manjit Singh,...

Amid loud slogans of Congress Lao, Samvidhan Bachao' Punjab National Students' Union of India (NSUI) president Akshay Sharma on Wednesday trained his guns on Modi for  trying to tear India's secular fabric by forcing religiously discriminatory CAA, NRC...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, has, in a letter to the chief minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh, demanded scrap of the power purchase agreements (PPOs) inked between the erstwhile Badal government and private power players, to relieve the harried...

Members of the Sikh community Led by  anjinder Singh Sirsa President Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee today  launched a massive protest outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi today by   raising slogans against Pakistan...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, on Tuesday, submitted memorandums to Punjab Government, in the entire state through the respective Deputy Commissioners (DCs), demanding scrapping of the one-sided and anti-people power purchase agreements (PPOs) entered...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, expressing serious concern over the rising prices of onion and other essential commodities of daily use, has submitted memoranda to the government in the saddle through deputy commissioners (DCs).In a statement issued from...

Punjab Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Minister Mr Bharat Bhushan Ashu today accused the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) led Union government of being the biggest threat for the Indian economy. He alleged that the Union government is wilfully ignoring...

As part of the Vegan India Movement,  Animal Rights activists gathered in hundreds and marched from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar. The aim of this march was to create awareness about Veganism and  demand justice for animals. They reiterated that...

While #Boycott_KBC_SonyTv trended on Twitter, supporters of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) gathered outside the Sony channel office in Mumbai''s Malad area on Friday  to stage protest against "Kaun Banega Crorepati" and Sony TV, the channel airing...

A large number of local and Punjab senior leadership, supporters, workers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) staged a ‘dharna’ against the Modi-led union government against the demolition of the 540-year-old Sri Guru Ravidas temple at Tuglaqabad in Delhi by...

Patients in some state-run hospitals of West Bengal suffered on Wednesday following a nationwide call for strike given by the Indian Medical Association  (IMA) to protest against the National Medical Commission Bill, 2019.Adhering to IMA's call for boycotting...

Medical services were affected in Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday after doctors of state-run hospitals joined a day-long strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2019.The impact of the...

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday witnessed uproar over a road accident in Uttar Pradesh in which the Unnao rape victim was critically injured and two others killed, with the Congress seeking a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah.When Speaker Om Birla allowed...

Doctors and students from various hospitals and colleges protested here on Monday alleging that the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill will only give a boost to quacks.The demonstration came in response to a call from the Indian Medical Association (IMA).The...

With the flood-related toll in Assam reaching 80, the first day of the monsoon session of the Assam assembly witnessed noisy scenes on Friday with the Opposition staging a walkout protesting the government's failure to handle the issue.With the death of five...