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High Court Roadblock For Kurmi Agitation In Bengal
The Calcutta High Court has declared the Kurmi community's plan for rail and road blockade on September 20 unconstitutional and illegal. The agitation was called to press the community's demand for Scheduled Tribe status.
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Trade Unions Block Roads, Railway Tracks In West Bengal During Nationwide Protest
The nationwide protest called by 10 central trade unions and their affiliates on Wednesday has affected pockets in West Bengal in the first few hours of the strike, with reports of road and rail blockades surfacing.
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Farmers' 4-Hour 'Rail Roko' Today In Protest For Safety Net On Crop Prices
The protesting farmers will organise a rail blockade today to press their demands that include a legal guarantee for a safety net on the pricing of all crops.
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Arson, Road Blockades In Kolkata After Girl, 7, Found Dead In A Sack
A police jeep was torched and road and rail movement affected as protesters in Kolkata took to streets over the death of a seven-year-old girl, who went missing last morning.
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Bihar Court Acquits BJP Leader, 22 Others In 9-Year-Old Rail Blockade Case
A Bihar court on Saturday acquitted Union minister Giriraj Singh and 22 other people in connection with a nine-year-old case that was lodged after they staged a rail blockade.
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Kurmis Lift Rail Blockade after 5 Days
A rail blockade by Kurmis, demanding Scheduled Tribe status, at two stations in Adra and Kharagpur divisions in West Bengal was withdrawn on Sunday morning after five days, officials said.
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Rail Roko Successful, Government Will Have To Repeal Farm Laws: Farmers
Calling its four-hour nationwide rail blockade a "peaceful and successful event", the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of the farm unions protesting against three new agriculture laws, on Thursday said the Centre will have to repeal the legislations as "anger among farmers is intensifying" in the country.
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Entry, Exit At 4 Delhi Metros Shut Due To Farmers' "Rail Roko" Agitation
Entry and exit at four metro stations, including at the Tikri border, one of the epicentres of the farmers' agitation, were shut by the DMRC authorities for nearly four hours on Thursday in view of the security situation due to a rail blockade called by the protesters.
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Rail Roko Will Be Peaceful, Will Not Join Politics: Rakesh Tikait
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said that 'rail roko', the blockade of trains as part of protests against farm laws, will be done in a peaceful manner and food and refreshments provided to people stranded due to the protest. He also stated that he will not join politics as he considers it "a big disease".
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Protesting Farmers Plan Countrywide Train Blockade On February 18
Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws at the border of Delhi have decided to step up their protest with a four-point programme. The last of these is a plan to block railways across the country on February 18, said Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a conglomerate of farmers' organisations.
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High Court Roadblock For Kurmi Agitation In Bengal
The Calcutta High Court has declared the Kurmi community's plan for rail and road blockade on September 20 unconstitutional and illegal. The agitation was called to press the community's demand for Scheduled Tribe status.
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Trade Unions Block Roads, Railway Tracks In West Bengal During Nationwide Protest
The nationwide protest called by 10 central trade unions and their affiliates on Wednesday has affected pockets in West Bengal in the first few hours of the strike, with reports of road and rail blockades surfacing.
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Farmers' 4-Hour 'Rail Roko' Today In Protest For Safety Net On Crop Prices
The protesting farmers will organise a rail blockade today to press their demands that include a legal guarantee for a safety net on the pricing of all crops.
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Arson, Road Blockades In Kolkata After Girl, 7, Found Dead In A Sack
A police jeep was torched and road and rail movement affected as protesters in Kolkata took to streets over the death of a seven-year-old girl, who went missing last morning.
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Bihar Court Acquits BJP Leader, 22 Others In 9-Year-Old Rail Blockade Case
A Bihar court on Saturday acquitted Union minister Giriraj Singh and 22 other people in connection with a nine-year-old case that was lodged after they staged a rail blockade.
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Kurmis Lift Rail Blockade after 5 Days
A rail blockade by Kurmis, demanding Scheduled Tribe status, at two stations in Adra and Kharagpur divisions in West Bengal was withdrawn on Sunday morning after five days, officials said.
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Rail Roko Successful, Government Will Have To Repeal Farm Laws: Farmers
Calling its four-hour nationwide rail blockade a "peaceful and successful event", the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of the farm unions protesting against three new agriculture laws, on Thursday said the Centre will have to repeal the legislations as "anger among farmers is intensifying" in the country.
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Entry, Exit At 4 Delhi Metros Shut Due To Farmers' "Rail Roko" Agitation
Entry and exit at four metro stations, including at the Tikri border, one of the epicentres of the farmers' agitation, were shut by the DMRC authorities for nearly four hours on Thursday in view of the security situation due to a rail blockade called by the protesters.
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Rail Roko Will Be Peaceful, Will Not Join Politics: Rakesh Tikait
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said that 'rail roko', the blockade of trains as part of protests against farm laws, will be done in a peaceful manner and food and refreshments provided to people stranded due to the protest. He also stated that he will not join politics as he considers it "a big disease".
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Protesting Farmers Plan Countrywide Train Blockade On February 18
Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws at the border of Delhi have decided to step up their protest with a four-point programme. The last of these is a plan to block railways across the country on February 18, said Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a conglomerate of farmers' organisations.
