-RuralIndiaOnline.org Ramesh Sharma is among lakhs of farmers from Bihar who earn more by working as farm labourers in Haryana than by harvesting the maize they grow at home Ramesh Sharma can’t remember the last time he spent an entire year at home. “I have been doing this for the past 15-20 years,” he says, while cutting sugarcane in a field in Gagsina village in Haryana’s Karnal district. For half of the year...
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Activist Nodeep Kaur Beaten Up At Police Station, Bail Plea Alleges
-PTI/ NDTV Farmers Protest: Nodeep Kaur, the 23-year-old activist, has also claimed that her medical examination was not conducted in violation of section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Chandigarh: Labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur in her bail plea before the Punjab and Haryana High Court has claimed that she was severely beaten up at a police station after her arrest by the Sonipat police last month. The 23-year-old activist, hailing from Punjab's...
More »‘Shame on the media’: Why protesting farmers are angry with the news coverage -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Indians are not being given the information they need to really understand why farmers are angry about the new agricultural laws, they say. Fifty-eight-year-old Jasbeer Singh listed the names of the places in Haryana where he had to negotiate police barriers before finally arriving at the state’s Singhu border with Delhi as he travelled from his home in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district about 250 km away. Shambhu, between Punjab and Haryana, had...
More »Stubble burning season starts in Punjab and Haryana -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth Nasa’s satellite image showed at least 100 such incidents in Punjab in the last 72 hours Nasa satellite images recorded scores of farm fires across Punjab and Haryana in the last seven days, indicating that the stubble burning season has started in the two states. Several red dots, indicating stubble burning activity, were seen in the images, especially over the districts of Amritsar, Ludhiana and Patiala in Punjab, and Karnal,...
More »NCR gets functional plan for micro, household enterprises
-The Hindu National Capital Region Planning Board also released regional plans for 7 districts The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) on Friday released the functional plan for micro and household enterprises in the NCR that aims to boost micro, small and household enterprises, and approved regional plans for seven districts. Addressing the NCRPB Board meeting, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister of State (independent charge) Hardeep Singh Puri told NCR states to...
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