A farmer runs his tractor over the standing crops days after BKU’s Rakesh Tikait’s appealed to ryots to be ready to sacrifice their crops.
JIND: Farmers from two villages in Haryana’s Jind district destroyed their standing wheat crop on Sunday morning in protest against the non-acceptance of their demand for the repeal of three agri-marketing laws introduced by the Centre.
This happened days after BKU national spokesman Rakesh Tikait’s appeal to farmers during a maha panchayat held recently in Hisar district to be ready to sacrifice their standing crop if their demands are not met by the Union government.
Kavita Rani, Rahul and Ranveer members of property fraud gang arrested by Gurgaon police.
GURUGRAM: Vikram Gujral of Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar and Kamal Kishore Khosla of the 2006 blockbuster have an uncanny resemblance. Both of them had bought plots decades ago in the then developing outskirts of Delhi and hoped to build houses when they retired. And during a casual visit to their plots one day, both found their property grabbed by land sharks.
The 2021 edition of “Khosla Ka Ghosla” was unearthed in Gurugram this month when police lifted the veil of a gang that sold plots in Sushant Lok and Palam Vihar by forging documents of their original owners, most of whom are non-resident Indians.
Rakesh Tikait
BHIWANI/NUH: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait held a mahapanchayat in Haryana’s Bhiwani on Sunday and called for support in intensifying the agitation against the three laws in other states too.
In Nuh, his son Gaurav Tikait addressed another mahapanchayat of 10,000 villagers and asserted that the agitation would continue until the three laws were repealed.
“The farm protest has started to expand to other parts of the country too. So, we decided to go to another state and hold a meeting with farmers and their leaders,” Tikait said in Bhiwani.
The BKU leader also called for unity among farmers of different states, alleging that the government was trying to divide the protesters on the basis of region and religion. “Two government representatives had come to meet me on Saturday, but I refused them. Any discussion with the government will take place in the presence of 40 members of the kisan morcha,” he added.
Pollution in Gurugram
GURUGRAM: The minimum temperature slightly dipped to 6 degrees Celsius two degrees below normal on Saturday due to the dry northwesterly winds in the region.
However, sunshine throughout the day provided some respite from the cold wave. The maximum temperature was recorded at 22 degrees Celsius on Saturday. It was 21 degrees Celsius on Friday.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted light rain on February 3 and 4 due to the fresh western disturbance. “Dry weather is likely to continue over the next 2-3 days with the rise in both minimum and maximum temperatures, after which there is possibility of drizzle or light rain on February 3 and 4,” the IMD official said.
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GURUGRAM: At a time when daily accidents are being reported in Gurugram due to lack of road safety measures deployed by various civic bodies, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), along with district authorities, civic agencies and police, is working on creating safer streets for pedestrians as well as motorists.
Responding to the Union ministry of road transport and highways (MoRTH)’s call to observe road safety month from January 18 to February 17, NHAI, in collaboration with the Gurugram district administration, GMDA, and traffic police, on Monday launched a month-long road safety drive. The first location for the drive ‘zero-tolerance’ against traffic offences was Golf Course Road.