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Being a purely religious body, by getting involved into the farmers agitation, which comprises farmers from all religions and castes, the SGPC is going completely against the mandate given to it under The Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925 and Punjab Act 8 of 1925 .
On International Women’s Day, women from Punjab reached Tikri on Delhi-Haryana border on to join the ongoing farmers’ protest. A protestor said, “We urge the Central Government to roll back the three black laws.” Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three newly enacted farm laws - Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.International Women’s Day: Women take helm of Farmers protest at Tikri Border
‘Rail roko’ by farmers passes off peacefully
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There was ‘negligible’ impact on running of trains: Railways.
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Farmers protest at the Modinagar railway station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on February 18, 2021.
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There was ‘negligible’ impact on running of trains: Railways.
Protesting farmers sat on railway tracks at hundreds of locations, and stopped some trains during a four-hour ‘rail roko’ agitation on Thursday. The Railways said there was a “negligible” impact on the running of trains across the country.
For a few passengers on trains stopped by the agitation, the ‘rail roko’ involved showering of flower petals and jaggery and distribution of milk by protesting farmers. In other locations, tractors were brought onto the tracks.
Toolkit controversy: Delhi Police defends Disha Ravi s arrest; top developments so far
Delhi Police have claimed that they followed all procedures as per law during Disha Ravi s arrest from Bengaluru
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Disha Ravi, a 21 year-old climate activist from Bengaluru
Delhi Police have claimed that the arrest of Disha Ravi, a climate activist from Bengaluru, was in accordance with the law. The Bombay High Court, however, granted a 10-day transit anticipatory bail to Shantanu Muluk, a co-accused in the Greta Thunberg toolkit case along with Disha Ravi and a Mumbai-based lawyer Nikita Jacob.
The Bombay HC s Mumbai bench reserved its verdict on Jacob s bail plea till Wednesday. Her lawyer Mihir Desai argued that the toolkit did not have any reference to the instances of violence that unfolded in the national capital on January 26.
Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 13:12 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 17: Farmers, who are protesting against the Centre s farm laws have called a four-hour rail blockade across the country from 12 noon to 4pm on Thursday (February 18) but the agitation has forced the Railways to either cancel or divert trains in Punjab on Wednesday.
According to a release issued by Northern Railway, the farmers agitation in the state, the Darbhanga-Amritsar Express special train, which was to start on Wednesday, will remain cancelled.
While rail blockades by farmers across the state, which started in September-end, were lifted in November, members of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee continue to block passenger trains at Jandiala Guru in Amritsar district.