Tag: blockade

The major news headlines of the day, and more. “Punjab farmers to completely lift their rail blockade from Monday to allow all goods and passenger trains, in response to impassioned appeal by the Chief Minister at a meeting with Kisan Unions,” tweeted Raveen Thukral, media advisor to ...

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh has urged the centre to help in ending the blockade by farmers protesting against agriculture laws and said that he will meet PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on the issue.Captain Amarinder Singh urged the central government to show magnanimity and agree on the ...

A blockade – the act of preventing goods or people from entering a place – is a frequent practice in case of hostilities between countries. Iin a curious turn of events, there are now accusations that a state within the Indian Union is being blockaded. The government of Punjab ...

Goods train movement to Punjab was affected due to protest by farmers (Representational)Chandigarh: Farmer groups that have been blocking railway tracks at 21 locations in Punjab have withdrawn from the sites to allow freight trains to move, the state government said today. But the trains are not likely to ...

Shashi Tharoor, the chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology, has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking to allow the panel to hold a discussion on the suspension of high-speed internet services in Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported on Monday. The Congress leader said the ...

Jammu and Kashmir internet services were blocked last year in August.New Delhi: Days after the Lok Sabha Speaker suggested parliamentary panels to not take up sub-judice matters in their meetings, a house committee on information technology on Friday dropped the contentious issue of internet services suspension in Jammu and ...

The Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, or JKCCS, on Tuesday called the communications blockade in the Union Territory “digital apartheid” and a form of collective punishment unleashed by the Indian government on the people. Presently, only 2G connectivity is permitted in most parts of the Kashmir Valley. On ...