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दिल्ली में शराब के नशे में धुत टैक्सी सवार ने 15 लोगों को कुचला, 7 की हालत गंभीर; एक की हुई मौत
दिल्ली में शराब के नशे में धुत टैक्सी सवार ने 15 लोगों को कुचला, 7 की हालत गंभीर; एक की हुई मौत
Delhi Market Car Accident: दिल्ली के गाजीपुर से एक दर्दनाक खबर सामने आई है। जानकारी के अनुसार, यहां एक तेज रफ्तार टैक्सी सवार ने बुध बाजार में 15 लोगों को कुचल दिया। बताया जा रहा है कि इस एक्सीडेंट में 7 लोग गंभीर घायल हो गए हैं। जिनका लाल बहादुर अस्पताल में इलाज चल रहा है। घटना के बाद लोगों ने आरोपी ड्राइवर को पकड़कर गाजीपुर पुलिस को सौंप दिया। कैसे हुई घटना? जानकारी के अनुसार, पूर्वी दिल्ली…
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Mukhtar Ansari death news LIVE: Panel of five doctors finalised for autopsy; heavy police deployment in Ghazipur - Hindustan Times
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Nirahua sold a luxurious house, don't know who bought it and how much?
Nirahua Homes For Sale: The Jubilee star of the Bhojpuri film Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua does not depend on any identity today. He is known abroad in the Bhojpuri film industry for his acting and singing. Besides this, Dinesh Lal Yadav is also a BJP leader and MP in Azamgarh. From the world of politics to the world of acting, Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua's name pops up in the headlines every day. Talk about Dinesh Lal Yadav's lifestyle and then tell him that he has properties from Mumbai to Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh. Bhojpuri star Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua, who once lived in a mud house, today lives in a lavish house and leads a very lavish lifestyle. His beautiful two-story home has been in the news for the past few days. At the same time, a new video related to this house came out, and the house was sold accordingly. Is Dinesh Lal Yadav's two-story home sold? Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirhua's Ghazipur house has been sold and a video about it has surfaced. After watching the video, the excitement is now running high among the fans. Did Dinesh Lal Yadav really sell this lavish home? And if you sold it after that... who bought it? As such, in the video related to the house, which is currently going viral, Boshipuri's villain, Sanjay Pandey, provides information about the purchase of the house. He said he bought this house. In the meantime, sharing this video, he wrote: Friends, I bought this building from Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirhua ji and Pravesh Lal Yadav ji in Chandrakant Yadav. it's mine now Many people commented on this post by Sanjay Pandey. During this, Pravesh Lal Yadav shared a smiley emoji in the comments, and Sanjay Pandey wrote: You hired the wrong person to manage your property… My man.... House stuff is only at home. This problem is real, not a lil Sanjay Pandey tried to make this video with Nirhua's house voiced by Amitabh Bachchan. Dialogues from the movie Deewar, in which Sanjay Pandey and Chandrakant lip-sync, were also mentioned. Nirhua's example of a home sale is reel, not real. A photo of Siddharth-Kiara, seen together for the first time after marriage, Sindur in Sentha and Kiara wearing a Chudlo in her hand, went viral DISCLAIMER We’ve taken all measures to insure that the information handed in this composition and on our social media platform is believable, vindicated and sourced from other Big media Houses. For any feedback or complaint, reach out to us at [email protected] Read the full article
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टूंडला में किसके बीच सीधी टक्कर ? | SINGHASAN 403 | UP Election 2022
टूंडला में किसके बीच सीधी टक्कर ? | SINGHASAN 403 | UP Election 2022
<p>यहां केंद्रीय राज्य मंत्री की साख दांव पर ! | SINGHASAN 403 | UP Election 2022</p> Source link
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Farmers head to Delhi borders as stir against farm laws completes year Friday
Farmers head to Delhi borders as stir against farm laws completes year Friday
Image Source : PTI Farmers head to Delhi borders as stir against farm laws completes year Friday Highlights Thousands of farmers have reached and many more are reaching, BKU leader Pargat Singh “We will proceed as per what the SKM decides,” Pargat Singh said Thousands of farmers from both states, including Amritsar, Jalandhar, are reaching Delhi borders As the protest against the Centre’s farm…
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पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस वे के उद्गाटन पर अखिलेश यादव ने कसा तंज, कहा- सपा ‘बहुरंगी पुष्पवर्षा’ से इसका करेगी उद्घाटन
पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस वे के उद्गाटन पर अखिलेश यादव ने कसा तंज, कहा- सपा ‘बहुरंगी पुष्पवर्षा’ से इसका करेगी उद्घाटन
प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने आज सुल्तानपुर में लखनऊ से गाजीपुर को जोड़ने वाला लगभग 341 किलोमीटर लंबे पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस-वे का लोकार्पण किया। पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस-वे उत्तर प्रदेश का सबसे बड़ा एक्सप्रेसवे है। एक्सप्रेसवे के जरिए दिल्ली से यूपी के पूर्वी कोने तक 10 घंटे के अंदर पहुंचा जा सकता है। अब सपा के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव ने पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेसवे के उद्घाटन पर भाजपा पर निशाना साधा…
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Scuffle between BJP workers, farm law protestors at Ghazipur | Ghaziabad News - Times of India
Scuffle between BJP workers, farm law protestors at Ghazipur | Ghaziabad News – Times of India
GHAZIABAD: A scuffle broke out between several BJP workers and farm law protestors at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Wednesday. The scuffle broke out as the BJP workers were carrying out a procession on the flyway where the farm law protesters, chiefly supporters of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, have been camping since November 2020, according to eye-witnesses. Further details are…
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'मंच पर आपके लिए जगह नहीं', विपक्षी नेताओं को किसान संगठनों की दो टूक
‘मंच पर आपके लिए जगह नहीं’, विपक्षी नेताओं को किसान संगठनों की दो टूक
Farmers’ Protest Live Updates: कृषि कानूनों के विरोध में किसानों का आंदोलन पिछले दो महीने से भी ज्यादा समय से जारी है। इस बीच प्रदर्शनस्थलों से कीलों के हटने के बाद यहां एक बार फिर विपक्षी नेताओं का पहुंचना शुरू हो गया है। गुरुवार को ही 10 विपक्षी पार्टियों के 15 सांसद यहां आए। इनमें अकाली दल, डीएमके, राकांपा और तृणमूल कांग्रेस के नेता शामिल रहे। इन्हें पुलिस ने बीच में ही रोक लिया था। इस बीच…
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Farmers Protest: बैरिकेडिंग तोड़कर प्राधिकरण गेट पर पहुंचे किसान, देखिए एक्सक्लूसिव तस्वीरें
Farmers Protest: बैरिकेडिंग तोड़कर प्राधिकरण गेट पर पहुंचे किसान, देखिए एक्सक्लूसिव तस्वीरें
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Celebrations at Ghazipur border, crowd expected to swell after farm laws repeal announcement
Celebrations at Ghazipur border, crowd expected to swell after farm laws repeal announcement
Image Source : PTI Farmers celebrate at Singhu Border in New Delhi after PM Narendra Modi announced the repealing of the three farm laws. Highlights In a major move, PM Modi in his address to the nation announced repealing of the three farm laws Three farm laws were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year Rakesh Tikait said that protest will be withdrawn only after the laws are…
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Bharat Bandh Live: किसानों का भारत बंद शुरू, दिल्ली, यूपी और पंजाब में यातायात प्रभावित
Bharat Bandh Live: किसानों का भारत बंद शुरू, दिल्ली, यूपी और पंजाब में यातायात प्रभावित
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पीएम मोदी ने पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस-वे का किया लोकार्पण, कहा- सालों तक परिवारवादियों की पार्टनरशिप यूपी की आकांक्षाओं को कुचलती रही
पीएम मोदी ने पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस-वे का किया लोकार्पण, कहा- सालों तक परिवारवादियों की पार्टनरशिप यूपी की आकांक्षाओं को कुचलती रही
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The message to women was clear: Go back home. Since November, hundreds of thousands of farmers had gathered at different sites on the outskirts of the Indian capital to demand the repeal of three agricultural laws that they say would destroy their livelihoods. In January, as the New Delhi winter set in, the Chief Justice of India asked lawyers to persuade elderly people and women to leave the protests. In response, women farmers—mostly from the rural states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh—scrambled onto stages, took hold of microphones and roared back a unanimous “No!”
“Something snapped within us when we heard the government tell the women to go back home,” says Jasbir Kaur, a sprightly 74-year-old farmer from Rampur in western Uttar Pradesh. It’s late February and Kaur has been camping at the Ghazipur protest site for over three months, only returning home once. She was stung by the court’s suggestion that women were mere care workers providing cooking and cleaning services at these sites—though she does do some of that work—rather than equal stakeholders. “Why should we go back? This is not just the men’s protest. We toil in the fields alongside the men. Who are we—if not farmers?”
Questions like this have rarely been asked by women like Kaur, long used to having their contributions to farming overlooked as part of their household duties. But this wave of protests—the world’s largest ongoing demonstration and perhaps the biggest in human history—has prompted thousands to make their voices heard. Indians of all ages, genders, castes and religions have been united by a common goal: to roll back new agricultural laws passed in September by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The laws, suspended in January by the Supreme Court but not yet repealed, would allow private corporations to buy directly from farmers, which they say would leave them at the mercy of buyers and do away with the traditional wholesale market system or mandis, where they are assured a minimum set price for certain crops.
Women, who form the backbone of Indian agriculture, may be particularly vulnerable to corporate exploitation. According to Oxfam India, 85% of rural women work in agriculture, but only around 13% own any land. “Women are not seen as farmers. Their labor is immense but invisible,” says Jasbir Kaur Nat, a member of the Punjab Kisan Union, who is mobilizing farmers in Tikri, the protest site at the border of Haryana and Delhi.
“This law will kill us, will destroy what little we have,” says Amandeep Kaur, a farmer from Talwandi in Punjab, whose husband died by suicide five years ago, following a bad crop that landed him with a debt of around $7,000. As well as farming, Kaur works as a community health worker to support her family; she and her two daughters only got rights to the land after her husband’s death. She lost out on compensation of almost the same amount that the Indian government gives to families of farmers who die by suicide because she did not secure a post mortem of the body to certify the death as suicide. “I didn’t even know the procedure to claim compensation from the government for my husband’s death,” she says. “How am I going to negotiate with businessmen?”
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged action on the gender gap in agriculture, saying women’s voices must be “heard as equal partners” to ensure both agricultural development and food security. And at the protests in India, women are speaking up. Before now, some women had never stepped out of their homes without a veil, let alone spoken onstage in front of thousands of men. Many arrive at the sites in tractors, a powerful—and previously male—symbol of farming in India. “Women are changing women here,” Nat says, praising the spirit of protest among these women. “They are claiming their identities as farmers.”
All of this is happening in India’s deeply patriarchal heartlands of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. Changing mindsets in states where femicide, sexual violence and gender discrimination are rampant has been a persistent challenge for activists. “We have been working to bring about gender equality in these parts for so long—but the process has been slow,” says women’s rights activist Sudesh Goyat. During the first few days of protests in Tikri, she says, she was the only woman from Haryana there. But after the court suggested women leave, they “started to pour in. They came with their families. They came with other women. They came alone. It’s no less than a miracle,” she says.
It’s also a unique opportunity to address the gender imbalance in Indian society, says Gurnaam Singh, state secretary of the Punjab Kisan Union. At the protest sites, men and women from different cultures and communities must live side by side without much privacy and under harsh circumstances.
Taking advantage of this rare situation, activists hold frequent discussions on women’s work and their contribution to the rural economy. Regular announcements from the stage about treating women as equals echo around the protest sites throughout the day. “I like this India,” says Harsharan Kaur, a young IT engineer who left a job in Dubai to volunteer at the protest site.
At the Ghazipur site, 29-year-old Ravneet Kaur, a law student from Bangalore, has successfully normalized conversations around a taboo topic in India: menstruation. She set up a women’s store at the site with the help of the women protestors, where they displayed sanitary napkins openly. “The men got used to it soon enough,” she says. “Now these conversations are normal around here. Men don’t flinch when they say sanitary napkins anymore.”
Whether such sentiments will spread beyond the protests is unclear, but for now, female farmers are being seen, heard and acknowledged—offering a new vision of what gender equality might look like for the country. “We have looked upon them as mothers, sisters, wives,” says Sukh Deep Singh, a young farmer from Punjab. “But now we see them in a different light.”
The women see themselves differently too. In Tikri, Sudesh Kandela, a 55-year-old farmer from Haryana, watches a play being staged by a local theater group, enraptured by the spectacle. “I didn’t know what I was capable of beyond the expectations of me as a woman, a wife and mother,” says Kandela, who had never before been to a protest or taken her veil off outside her home. “But I am here now,” she says, clenching her fists, “and I cannot be oppressed. I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be bought.”
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हरियाणा: जींद में किसान महापंचायत में हिस्सा लेने पहुंचे राकेश टिकैत, हजारों समर्थक जुटे
हरियाणा: जींद में किसान महापंचायत में हिस्सा लेने पहुंचे राकेश टिकैत, हजारों समर्थक जुटे
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Kiranjit Kaur, far left, came to the Tikri protest site from Talwandi, Punjab, on Feb. 23 with a group of 20 women, including her mother-in-law and children. “It is important for all women to come here and mark their presence in this movement. I have two daughters, and I want them to grow up into the strong women they see here.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
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'I CANNOT BE INTIMIDATED. I CANNOT BE BOUGHT.' THE WOMEN LEADING INDIA’S FARMERS’ PROTESTS
— Text By Nilanjana Bhowmick | Photographs By Kanishka Sonthalia For TIME | MARCH 4, 2021 | TIME Magazine
The message to women was clear: Go back home. Since November, hundreds of thousands of farmers had gathered at different sites on the outskirts of the Indian capital to demand the repeal of three agricultural laws that they say would destroy their livelihoods. In January, as the New Delhi winter set in, the Chief Justice of India asked lawyers to persuade elderly people and women to leave the protests. In response, women farmers—mostly from the rural states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh—scrambled onto stages, took hold of microphones and roared back a unanimous “No!”
“Something snapped within us when we heard the government tell the women to go back home,” says Jasbir Kaur, a sprightly 74-year-old farmer from Rampur in western Uttar Pradesh. It’s late February and Kaur has been camping at the Ghazipur protest site for over three months, only returning home once. She was stung by the court’s suggestion that women were mere care workers providing cooking and cleaning services at these sites—though she does do some of that work—rather than equal stakeholders. “Why should we go back? This is not just the men’s protest. We toil in the fields alongside the men. Who are we—if not farmers?”
Amandeep Kaur, 41, from Talwandi, Punjab, is employed as a community health worker and as a farmer to support her two daughters. Her husband died by suicide five years ago; because she did not know her rights, she didn’t receive government compensation given to families of farmers who die by suicide. The new laws, she says, “will kill us, will destroy what little we have.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
Questions like this have rarely been asked by women like Kaur, long used to having their contributions to farming overlooked as part of their household duties. But this wave of protests—the world’s largest ongoing demonstration and perhaps the biggest in human history—has prompted thousands to make their voices heard. Indians of all ages, genders, castes and religions have been united by a common goal: to roll back new agricultural laws passed in September by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The laws, suspended in January by the Supreme Court but not yet repealed, would allow private corporations to buy directly from farmers, which they say would leave them at the mercy of buyers and do away with the traditional wholesale market system or mandis, where they are assured a minimum set price for certain crops.
The protests have drawn women of all ages. While some speak onstage, others are simply determined to be present. “I am an illiterate woman,” says Gurmer Kaur, center, at the protests with her friends Surjit Kaur, left, and Jaswant Kaur, right, all in their mid-70s. “I cannot talk well, but I can sit tight—and I will sit here till the next elections if these laws are not called off.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
Women, who form the backbone of Indian agriculture, may be particularly vulnerable to corporate exploitation. According to Oxfam India, 85% of rural women work in agriculture, but only around 13% own any land. “Women are not seen as farmers. Their labor is immense but invisible,” says Jasbir Kaur Nat, a member of the Punjab Kisan Union, who is mobilizing farmers in Tikri, the protest site at the border of Haryana and Delhi.
Photograph by Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
“This law will kill us, will destroy what little we have,” says Amandeep Kaur, a farmer from Talwandi in Punjab, whose husband died by suicide five years ago, following a bad crop that landed him with a debt of around $7,000. As well as farming, Kaur works as a community health worker to support her family; she and her two daughters only got rights to the land after her husband’s death. She lost out on compensation of almost the same amount that the Indian government gives to families of farmers who die by suicide because she did not secure a post mortem of the body to certify the death as suicide. “I didn’t even know the procedure to claim compensation from the government for my husband’s death,” she says. “How am I going to negotiate with businessmen?”
Sarjit Kaur, left, and Dilbeer Kaur, right, from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, have been at the protests for two months. “We are here to show solidarity and support,” Dilbeer says. Prime Minister Modi is “making us leave our farms and sit here to fight for our rights. We are here to get these laws repealed, and we will be here till we get it done.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged action on the gender gap in agriculture, saying women’s voices must be “heard as equal partners” to ensure both agricultural development and food security. And at the protests in India, women are speaking up. Before now, some women had never stepped out of their homes without a veil, let alone spoken onstage in front of thousands of men. Many arrive at the sites in tractors, a powerful—and previously male—symbol of farming in India. “Women are changing women here,” Nat says, praising the spirit of protest among these women. “They are claiming their identities as farmers.”
Bindu Ammini is a well-known Dalit rights and women’s rights activist from Kerala. “I came here to support the farmers” she says. “but I saw a very different India without any caste or gender discrimination. Hopefully it will continue beyond the protest.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
All of this is happening in India’s deeply patriarchal heartlands of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana. Changing mindsets in states where femicide, sexual violence and gender discrimination are rampant has been a persistent challenge for activists. “We have been working to bring about gender equality in these parts for so long—but the process has been slow,” says women’s rights activist Sudesh Goyat. During the first few days of protests in Tikri, she says, she was the only woman from Haryana there. But after the court suggested women leave, they “started to pour in. They came with their families. They came with other women. They came alone. It’s no less than a miracle,” she says.
Left: Urmila Devi, 41, works in the fields with her husband in Bahadurgarh village near the Tikri site. “Both of us get it done together. I don’t know about rights,” she says. “I have never thought about it too much. There’s a family to run and mouths to feed.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
Right: Inspired by women singing, reciting protest poetry and chanting slogans at Tikri, 18-year-old farmers Sahumati Padha, left, and Hiraath Jhade came from the central state of Chhattisgarh. “I wanted to bring our story to them and to the rest of India,” Padha says. “We need to be seen.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
It’s also a unique opportunity to address the gender imbalance in Indian society, says Gurnaam Singh, state secretary of the Punjab Kisan Union. At the protest sites, men and women from different cultures and communities must live side by side without much privacy and under harsh circumstances.
Taking advantage of this rare situation, activists hold frequent discussions on women’s work and their contribution to the rural economy. Regular announcements from the stage about treating women as equals echo around the protest sites throughout the day. “I like this India,” says Harsharan Kaur, a young IT engineer who left a job in Dubai to volunteer at the protest site.
A gender-rights activist from Haryana, Sudesh Goyat has been at the Tikri protest site since the very beginning, helping mobilize women and organize for Jan. 18 to be recognized as Women Farmers Day. “Women work equally in the fields with the men. It’s only right they should be here to protest,” she says. “The awareness among women about their own power has never been higher than now.” Kanishka Sonthalia for TIME
At the Ghazipur site, 29-year-old Ravneet Kaur, a law student from Bangalore, has successfully normalized conversations around a taboo topic in India: menstruation. She set up a women’s store at the site with the help of the women protestors, where they displayed sanitary napkins openly. “The men got used to it soon enough,” she says. “Now these conversations are normal around here. Men don’t flinch when they say sanitary napkins anymore.”
Whether such sentiments will spread beyond the protests is unclear, but for now, female farmers are being seen, heard and acknowledged—offering a new vision of what gender equality might look like for the country. “We have looked upon them as mothers, sisters, wives,” says Sukh Deep Singh, a young farmer from Punjab. “But now we see them in a different light.”
The women see themselves differently too. In Tikri, Sudesh Kandela, a 55-year-old farmer from Haryana, watches a play being staged by a local theater group, enraptured by the spectacle. “I didn’t know what I was capable of beyond the expectations of me as a woman, a wife and mother,” says Kandela, who had never before been to a protest or taken her veil off outside her home. “But I am here now,” she says, clenching her fists, “and I cannot be oppressed. I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be bought.”
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