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With security personnel sealing off the borders and the MHA ordering shutting down of internet services, local residents are the ones suffering  In a bid to stop the protesting farmers from entering the Capital, Delhi Police has sealed the borders for even the local residents. Those who have houses around the Ghazipur border now complain […]

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PTI -February 4, 2021

The Delhi High Court Thursday said it is “simply shocking” that advocates are arguing or attending matters through video-conferencing while being on “roads, sitting in parks and even running up on stairs”, making it difficult for the court to conduct proceedings as are not audible properly. The high court expressed its displeasure and said that […]

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PTI -February 4, 2021

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday launched the ‘Switch Delhi’ campaign to promote electric vehicles and appealed to people to buy such vehicles to combat pollution in the city Kejriwal said his government will hire only electric vehicles for various purposes in the next six weeks. The Chief Minister also asked delivery chains and big […]

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Sashikala VP -February 3, 2021

A glimpse into the farmer’s protest that despite the barbed wires, nails and a wall of security personnel refuses to die   There may be concrete barricades and concertina wire to stop movement, but farmers at Ghazipur border are not giving up. After numbers started to dwindle on January 26 a cry for support by […]

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The protesting farmers were approached by Airtel employees in December to get them to port from Jio As we took breaks from the unusually hot February sun at Ghazipur border – browsing Twitter – farmers protesting the new farm laws by the Modi government approached us enquiring, “You have network?” Another question we were asked […]

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PTI -February 3, 2021

Activists of several student, youth and women organisations assembled at Mandi House here on Wednesday for a march in support of the farmers staging protests at the national capital borders demanding repeal of the Centre’s new farm laws The activists of AISA, SFI, AISF, DSF, NSUI, CYSS, AIPWA and AICCTU, carrying posters, banners and placards, […]

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PTI -February 3, 2021

Delhi’s minimum temperature rose to 10.4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning, and is expected to remain within comfortable levels for the next two to three days, the India Meteorological Department said. Easterly winds, which are not as cold as westerlies from snow-clad mountains, have been blowing in Delhi under the influence of a fresh Western […]

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Proma Chakraborty -February 2, 2021

The restaurant is hosting ‘fish trap’ – a fish festival with a selection of the favourites from around the world and India – all under one roof “It’s a big catch” – Delhiites perhaps do not expect such greetings when they walk into a restaurant in the Capital. Being far away from the coastline, ‘a […]

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