Haryana Mahapanchayat Live Updates: Farmers stage road blockade in Kurukshetra demanding MSP for sunflower seeds

We have only two demands, release the farmers who were detained and start purchasing sunflower seeds at MSP. We are ready to hold discussions with the government, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said in Haryana's Kurukshetra.

Farmers on Monday blocked the Delhi-Haryana highway as they marched towards the national capital. According to TV reports, the farmers are demanding fair price for sunflower seeds.

A PMK functionary was hacked to death by a three member gang in Chengalpet on Monday. The victim Kalidasan was at a juice shop when the gang attacked him.

Neither the BJP nor the Congress talked about education during their respective tenures in Delhi, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday, while asserting that his government's politics is solely dependent on educating children. He made the remarks at the inauguration of a new building of a government school in west Delhi's Uttam Nagar."This school was constructed in 1985. The governments of (BJP and Congress) came to power. But education was not on their agenda."Neither the BJP nor the Congress spoke about providing education. But our politics is dependent on education," the chief minister said.

This will be the first meeting after the death of 11 people in a blast in an illegal factory.

Border Security Forces (BSF) on Monday recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara town, officials said.As per the information, the forces recovered the IED in Bhatpura village near a culvert along the Handwara-Naogaon state highway.More details are awaited.

The Border Security Force (BSF) has shot down another Pakistani drone near the International Border in Punjab's Amritsar.The BSF troops recovered the drone on Monday morning following a search operation that was launched on the outskirt of Shaidpur Kalan village in Amritsar.During the search, the BSF said, at about 7.20 am, a drone in completely broken condition was recovered near Gurudwara of Shaidpur Kalan village.

The trial run of the Patna-Ranchi Vande Bharat Express started from here on Monday, a senior official said. The train left Bihar capital Patna at 6.55am and is scheduled to reach Jharkhand capital Ranchi at 1 pm. On its return journey, it will leave Ranchi at 2.20pm and arrive here at 8.25 pm, said Birendra Kumar, the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of East Central Railway (ECR) zone, Hajipur. (PTI)

A massive fire broke out in a house in Lal Bagh colony in Loni in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Monday.According to sources, two women have died in the fire incident and several others are feared trapped.

Fire gutted a commercial complex housing a gold jewellery showroom, imitation gold jewellery showroom, a textile showroom and a few other godowns on Mint Street in Sowcarpet on Monday morning. No one was injured in the fire incident.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will kick off the Congress's campaign for the year-end Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls from Jabalpur on Monday after praying at the banks of the Narmada river, a party leader said. Jabalpur is at the centre of the state's Mahakoshal region, which has a sizable number of tribal voters. In the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress won 11 of the 13 Scheduled Tribe reserved seats in the eight-district division, with the remaining two bagged by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Suspecting that his spouse was cheating on him, a 40-year-old man - who had recently come out of jail after his 32-year-old wife secured bail for him about 15 days ago - shot her dead in a busy marketplace in Fatehganj west area of Bareilly on Saturday evening.

Former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP Kaiserganj MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh announced Sunday he would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from the same seat without specifying if it would be the same party.Brij Bhushan made the statement while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a BJP rally in Gonda — part of the Kaiserganj constituency — to mark nine years of the Narendra Modi government.

Launching the Congress government's ambitious Shakti free travel scheme for women in public transport buses, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the scheme will empower women and increase their representation in public life.

As the CBI team probing the Bahanaga triple train accident in Odisha's Balasore district has sealed the level crossing near the Bahanaga Bazar railway station from both sides, people, students and traders of at least five villages are facing problems in commuting, reports Riyan Ramanath.