A MEETING on June 3 between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and protesting wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat marked the first effort on the Centre’s part to end the impasse. The events preceding the meeting were rooted in an uneven power play in which young sportspersons we
A day after the police baton-charged and used water cannon to get protesting farmers evicted from the national highway 44 connecting Chandigarh with Delhi, farmers owing allegiance with the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Chaduni) on Wednesday staged a .
Police had detained several farmers, including Chaduni Tuesday when they were blocking Delhi-Ambala national highway (NH-44) near Kurukshetra seeking procurement of sunflower seeds at minimum support price (MSP) in Haryana.
Hundreds of farmers on Tuesday blocked the national highway in Haryana's Kurukshetra district demanding the state government to withdraw its decision not to procure sunflower seeds on minimum support price (MSP) and induct the crop under the .
Police on Tuesday cane charged farmers near Kurukshetra's Shahbad to get NH44 open as peasants had blocked the highway claiming government was not buying their sunflower seeds on MSP.