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Farmers' Protest: The Delhi Police on Monday imposed section 144 of the CrPC citywide and fortified the borders to ensure prevention of any untoward incident

Huge traffic jams were witnessed on the highways that connect Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad via Ghazipur and Chilla borders. To further prevent traffic jams, the authorities have banned goods-carrying vehicles from entering Delhi via the Greater Noida Expressway.

The Delhi airport issued an advisory to passengers on Monday in view of the 'Dehi Chalo' march at the borders of Delhi on February 13.

The farmers propose to march to Delhi to press for their demands, including the implementation of a law to guarantee a minimum support price (MSP) for crops. The protesting farmers groups are largely from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh.

Indian Police fire tear gas to prevent thousands of protesting farmers demanding better crop prices from marching on Delhi.

Vehicles, including four-wheelers, two-wheelers and trucks, were told by police personnel to turn back or take a diversion because of the barricading.

The authorities intensified security arrangements on Tuesday to stop a farmers’ march from entering Delhi

Ahead of Tuesdays Delhi Chalo march called by farmers organisations, three Union ministers -- Piyush Goyal, Arjun Munda and Nityanand Rai -- will arrive in Chandigarh on Monday to hold talks with the farmers organisations.

The ED issued a fresh and fifth summons to Kejriwal on Wednesday after he skipped four earlier summonses issued by the federal agency over the last four months

Several roads in Lutyens' Delhi area witnessed chock-a-block situation while revellers stood in serpentine queues inside and outside metro stations as huge crowds thronged the India Gate, Connaught Place and other religious places on New Year's Day.