West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offered prayers at Gurudwara Sant Kutiya in Bhabanipur on September 15. "We fully support the farmers' movement," said CM Mamata ahead of Bhabanipur bypolls. By-election in Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency (West Bengal) will be held on September 30.

The Haryana government on Wednesday has formed a special committee to talk with the farmers, who are protesting against the three farm laws, for removing the blockade at National Highway-44 at Singhu border.The committee was formed after a high-level meeting held by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.It comes four days before the Supreme Court is expected to hear the petition regarding the NH-44 blockade.Speaking to reporters here, Home Minister Anil Vij said, "To follow the orders of the Supreme Court, a state-level high power committee under the chairmanship of Home Secretary Rajeev Arora is

Several parts of the national capital witnessed heavy rainfall on Thursday morning which is likely to continue during the next two hours.Delhi and its adjoining area are likely to witness moderate to heavy rainfall in the next two hours, as per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)."Thunderstorm with moderate to heavy intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of North, West, North-West, South-West Delhi, NCR (Bahadurgarh, Gurugram, Manesar), Sonipat, Rohtak, Meham, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Mattanhail, Jhajjar, Kosali, Farukhnagar,

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis raised concern after Delhi Police busted a Pakistan-organised terror module on September 14. He said, "The arrest of terrorists in the country and especially in Mumbai is a major danger alert. It is very important to find such people because we do not want serious incidents to happen. Such people should be eliminated".

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that the BJP government has made people miserable and asked the Centre to show concern about the problems faced by the country's citizens rather than deflecting through Afghanistan.Speaking to the media persons during her visit to Poonch, the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister further said that the Central government is not listening to anyone, including the farmers who have been protesting against its policies for the past several months."Taliban are in Afghanistan. Why talk about them? We have a lot of issues here, the biggest being the farmer

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on September 14 took out a 'Tiranga Sankalp Yatra' in Ayodhya. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia along with party leader Sanjay Singh led the yatra. "We will fight elections in all 403 seats in the state," said Delhi Deputy CM. AAP is gearing up for 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait announced that farmers' protest in Karnal will continue as "talks with administration have failed". "Talk (with Karnal district administration) lasted for 3 hours but failed. The officers are getting directions from Chandigarh. Along with our protests in Delhi, this agitation will also continue until our demands are met. Our demand is that the officer is suspended," he said.

Senior Congress leader and the party's in-charge for Punjab, Harish Rawat on September 08 dismissed reports of friction between state Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu, and said if there is any dispute between the two leaders in future, it would be beneficial for the party. Speaking to ANI, Rawat said, "Punjab is the land of braves. People there put their opinion very strongly there and it looks like they will fight. But, there is nothing like that, and they find solutions to their problems. If there would be a dispute betw

Farmers have continued to sit-in protest around the mini secretariat in Haryana's Karnal district after talks with the district administration failed over their call for action against officials involved in lathi-charge on farmers on August 28."The administration has tried to give an explanation over former Karnal SDM Ayush Sinha. We will hold a meeting with farmers to make a decision on our further actions. We are doing a peaceful protest. We are not stopping anyone to work here. The officers themselves will not come to work and use farmers as an excuse," said BKU leader Rakesh Tikait.Earlier