NEW DELHI: A day after Congress party interim chief Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to participate in the year-long celebration of 50th anniversary of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will address a massive public meeting in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun on December 16. Congress General Secretary (Organisations) K. C. Venugopal on Friday said […]
NEW DELHI: India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat was cremated with full military honours here today. General Rawat was accorded 17-gun salute as per the protocol of the Indian Armed Forces. His last rites were performed along with his wife Madhulika Rawat at the Brar Square in Delhi Cantonment area, with […]
NEW DELHI: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday announced that it is calling off its protest after the central government accepted its pending demands, bringing a relief to many including travellers, daily commuters as well as goods transporters who had to shift routes from the National Highway 1 for last more than one year. […]
SANGRUR: Days after Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi announced that Punjab government will build memorial for farmers who lost their lives during the year-long farmers’ protest, minister Vijay Inder Singla inaugurated the first memorial of farmers here in Sangrur and urged the central government to accept the rest of farmers’ demands so that they can come […]
SANGRUR: On a sunny day in Punjab’s Sangrur, Amrinder Preet Kaur held her emotions tight as she saw her father’s name engraved on the first memorial in remembrance of peasants who died in the year-long protest over three contentious farm laws. She slammed the government for delay in taking a decision to repeal the three […]
NEW DELHI: As the Central government is working overtime to resolve the farmers’ protest deadlock, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Tuesday after day-long meeting shared that they have received a written draft proposal from the Central government but will meet again on Wednesday to seek further clarifications on a few points. SKM, the umbrella […]
MEERUT: The Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal put out a joint front at their first ever rally together here in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. The RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Tuesday targeted the BJP government at centre and state and said that since the present “double engine” government had failed the people of Uttar Pradesh, […]
LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Samajwadi Party (SP) are moving closer to what appears to be a pre-poll alliance between the two political parties ahead of 2022 Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly elections. RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Monday said that his party will share the stage with the SP in a mega rally […]
NEW DELHI: The war of words is heating up between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress and schools appear to be the contentious ground as 2022 elections approach near. After Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia stormed into home turf of Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi while exposing the condition of government schools in […]
NEW DELHI: On a long, winding stretch – overlooked by the towering hills on the right — in Bihar’s Gehlaur, it is hard to miss Dashrath Manjhi’s bust. Manjhi, who once earned the sobriquet of mountain man of India, remains Gehlaur’s mentor, inspiration, guide and friend even 14 years after his death. After all, the […]