Delegation urged chief secretary that religious flags, banners and symbols should be banned in public places, roads, electricity poles, mobile towers, government offices, police stations, police and paramilitary force camps
Bareilly: Two days after a cleric was booked in Bareilly for hoisting a religious flag above the tricolour on a mosque, another person was booked for .
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Three senior BJP leaders including president J.P. Nadda campaigned in West Bengal on Tuesday and raked up religion as a poll plank. Mr. Nadda, who held a road show and addressed a public meeting in Bankura, wondered why Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a lockdown on the day of foundation stone laying of Ram Temple in August 2020 but lifted it on the day of muharram.
Delhi remained the most polluted capital city in the world but India, on the whole, had improved its average annual PM 2.5 (particulate matter) levels higher in 2020 than in 2019, according to a report from IQ Air, a Swiss air quality technology company, specialising in protection against airborne pollutants, and developing air quality monitoring and air cleaning products.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday resumed her campaign in districts with a strong message that she will uproot those who are conspiring against her. “My leg will heal in the next few years. I will see whether your legs can move freely on Bengal’s soil,” Ms. Banerjee said at Jhalda rally in Purulia.
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that the government wanted to expand the “air bubble” arrangement with more countries and the priority would be Saudi Arabia, Kuwait in the west and Japan, China and Singapore in the east.
The Centre will allow residents to fill columns in the National Population Register (NPR) forms on their own through online mode, a month before door-to-door enumeration by Census officials starts. After filling the form online, residents will get a reference code that they could mention to the field enumerator at the time of her/his visit, according to a senior government official.
The group of 23 letter writers (G-23), who had written to party chief Sonia Gandhi last August asking for reforms, were not dissenters but protectors of the Congress legacy, senior Congress leader and a key member of G-23, Kapil Sibal, said on Sunday.
Farmers’ protest | Women farmers take centre stage at protest sites
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Organisers laid out elaborate plans to let women farmers manage the stage, arrange food and security and share tales of their struggles on the International Women’s Day
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Large number of women from Punjab and Haryana participate in farmers' protest against the Center's new farm laws, on International Women's Day, at Tikri Border in Delhi on March 8, 2021.
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Organisers laid out elaborate plans to let women farmers manage the stage, arrange food and security and share tales of their struggles on the International Women’s Day
Farmers in Haryana block highway to mark 100 days of agitation
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Traffic snarls and diversions seen at many points
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Farmers block an expressway to mark the 100th day of the protest against the farm laws, near Kundli border, in Haryana on March 6, 2021.
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Traffic snarls and diversions seen at many points
Hundreds of farmers, including women, held a blockade at five points on the 135-km-long Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, connecting five districts of Haryana, on Saturday to mark 100 days of the agitation around Delhi in protest against the farm laws.
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The protests led to traffic snarls at a few points and the police diverted traffic to avoid inconvenience to the commuters.