-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: Jat community members in Haryana on Saturday threatened to oppose programmes attended by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his ministers for not implementing quota in government jobs and education and not withdrawing cases filed in connection with the 2016 quota stir. At a Jat Mahasabha organised in Jassia village in Rohtak district, the All-India Jat Aarakshan Sangarsh Samiti announced that it will hold dharnas from August...
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Farmers' agitation: Stir enters second day, vegetable prices surge over dwindling supplies
-The Indian Express The farmer organisations have been demanding minimum income guarantee scheme, implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report and waiver of farmers' debt. New Delhi: Demanding remunerative prices for their produce, implementation of the Swaminathan Commission recommendations and farm loan waivers among other things, farmers across the country continued their agitation Saturday as part of a 10-day long nationwide strike. In the wake of the dwindling fresh supplies of farm produce in...
More »Most UP ex-CMs leave official bungalows after SC order
-PTI Lucknow: A day before expiry of the deadline to vacate their official bungalows, former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh have moved to the VVIP guest house here. BSP leader Mayawati vacated one bungalow and claimed the other was converted into a memorial for BSP founder Kanshi Ram. “Mulayam Singh Yadav shifted to the VVIP guest house here yesterday, while Akhilesh Yadav along with his MP wife Dimple...
More »In apex body of NREGA, members of spiritual groups, RSS weekly editor -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express Also on the CEGC member-list is Sudhir Aggarwal, a BJP member who is “founder-president, Confederation of Voluntary Organizations” and who describes himself as a “swayam sevak since childhood” on his website. New Delhi: The editor of RSS publication Panchjanya, members of a few Hindu spiritual organisations and the CEO of a drone company are among people drafted as “non-official members from various states” in the apex body responsible for...
More »A farmer death, and the story of a Baghpat mill -Sourav Roy Barman
-The Indian Express While mills are required, by law, to pay the SAP amount within 14 days of cane purchase, the Malakpur factory has till date disbursed a mere Rs 32 crore. That amounts to less than 7 per cent of what is due to its 34,000-odd farmers. Baghpat (U.P.): On the road to the sugar mill in Malakpur, the number of flies first multiply, then quadruply. It’s late May and the...
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