Last Updated: April 15, 2024, 16:06 IST A user wrote, ”What a lovely precious gift and a great deal of effort.” (Photo credits: Instagram) In the footage, a visibly distraught Chohan can be seen kissing the door and staring at it. The 1947 partition that split the Indian subcontinent into two separate nations, India … Read more
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday alleged that the Punjab government is diverting wheat stocks, supplied by the Centre for distribution to poor families, to private mills. Also read: Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab farmers expect higher wheat yield this year Goyal, who handles the consumer affairs portfolio, also said the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government … Read more
Shahpur Kandi barrage: In 1982, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid foundation for the project. Srinagar: India has stopped the flow of water from the Ravi river into Pakistan by building a dam that was waiting for completion for 45 years. India has exclusive rights to the water of Ravi under the 1960 Indus water … Read more
As farmers leaders chalked out their next course of action after a two-day pause, they were hopeful of a resolution to their key demands through talks but simultaneously ready to resume the “Delhi chalo” march if the talks failed. Also read: ‘Under protest’, X blocks accounts related to farmers’ protest on Centre’s orders There were … Read more
The Haryana Police on Tuesday lobbed several rounds of tear gas shells, including through drones, at Punjab-Haryana borders near Ambala and Jind, to prevent farmers from reaching Delhi as thousands of farmers started from different parts of Punjab in their tractors as part of a call by farmers’ body Samyukt Kisan Morcah (non-politicial), which has … Read more
Arvind Kejriwal has expressed confidence that he would win all the seats of Punjab and Chandigarh. New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal all but announced his party’s intention of cutting the Congress out and contesting all seven seats of Delhi today, saying it is the decision of the “people of Delhi”. The Aam Aadmi … Read more
The Indian Government on Tuesday informed the Parliament that the number of beneficiaries under the flagship Direct Benefit transfer (DBT) scheme, PM-Kisan has fallen 14 per cent to 9.21 crore in 2023-24 from 10.73 crore last year. If the final number of beneficiaries is contained within 9.5 crore, the annual outgo could be around ₹57,000 … Read more