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A pukka Morcha has been planned outside the office of the chief minister Bhagwant Mann on September 12th by a set of agricultural labour organizations. A most significant event in light of the mass political movement of the dalit agricultural community of Punjab. A meeting was convened by Zameen Prapt Sangharsh commitee leader Mukesh Mulaudh,where […]
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Dalit Agricultural labour Organisations of Punjab to stage protest outside chief Minister’s house on September 12th
September 9th, 2022 
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No Comments »Punjab’s Growing Environment Activism is Welcome, Should Have Wider Horizon
September 1st, 2022 Awake Goy In recent months there have been growing signs of increasing assertiveness of environmental movements in Punjab. This should be widely welcomed and is much needed, given the rapid degradation of environment here at several levels in recent decades. There was an impressive and successful mobilization recently to save the Mattewara forest in Ludhiana from the […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: activism, Environment, growing, punjab, should, welcome, wider No Comments »Why Unrest Among Teachers At Higher Education In Punjab?
December 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Institutions of higher education in Punjab and Chandigarh have been through the situation of unrest when university and college teachers have resorted to a strike and ‘Education Bandh’, a weapon of ‘Conflict resolution’ not usually or willingly adopted by the teachers. The non- implementation of the recommendations of the UGC seventh pay commission and the […]
Punjab-Politics: Negative Signs?
September 20th, 2021 Awake Goy What can the new Chief Minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi be expected to achieve within less than a year? Paradoxically, change of guard in Punjab as well as Gujarat doesn’t spell much of a surprise as several other chief ministers have been subject to the same move. One is nevertheless tempted to deliberate on the […]
Dalit Agricultural Labourers Lay Siege To The House Of Punjab Chief Minister
September 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Under the invitation of the joint front of the rural and farm labour organizations, Ten thousand dalit agricultural labour gheraoed the house of Captain Amrinder Singh at Moti Mahal in Patiala. He was forced to issue a written letter to scrap metres on electricity bills and pay occupation of labourers cut plots in a month, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, Chief, dalit, house, labourers, punjab, siege No Comments »Precarity of Migrant Labour in Punjab’s Textile Industries
July 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Punjab faces a severe power crisis in the literal and metaphorical sense.Unprecedented shortage in power supply, power thefts and rise in power demand has turned it into a power-starving state. Facing an acute shortage of power supply amidst soaring demand of power from the agricultural sector. Gap between demand and supply traces to increase in […]
Green Initiatives of Punjab Are Welcome But Need Precautions to Maximize Benefits
July 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Recent new initiatives of the Punjab government to bring real greenery to the state need to be widely welcomed. This state really needs environment protection, particularly as what was falsely called green revolution in farming caused such immense ( and entirely avoidable)ecological ruin. The new measures announced show much promise of increasing the overall green […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: benefits, green, initiatives, maximize, precautions, punjab, welcome No Comments »Rekindle the flame of Martyrs of Sewewala of Punjab on 30th anniversary
April 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Today on April 9th we commemorate the 30th martyrdom anniversary of the 18 martyrs of Sewewala in Faridkot district in Punjab. They were all crusaders against the fascist Khalistani movement, striking every nail in the coffin to extinguish it. It also in no uncertain terms condemned the terrorism of the state. All the martyrs were […]
Striking Farmers Shut Down India’s Punjab to Protest Agriculture Law
December 9th, 2020 Awake Goy Hundreds of unionized farmers and their supporters in India blocked roads and highways in Punjab on Tuesday, paralyzing traffic and shutting down commerce to protest what they describe as “anti-farmer” agricultural laws passed in September. Farmers’ unions called for a nationwide strike after five rounds of talks with government officials failed to resolve their grievances. […]
Farmers begin protest in Punjab, Haryana in India over contentious farm bills
September 26th, 2020 Awake Goy The Searchlight Sep 25, 2020, Economic Times As many as 31 farmer organisations, under aegis of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) have joined hands for the complete shutdown of Punjab. (AFP photo) Chandigarh: Farmers on Friday began their protest as part of the ‘Punjab Bandh’ call against the contentious farm bills that were recently passed […]
Rhode Island mandates 7th graders get dangerous HPV vaccine – adverse reactions hidden from parents
January 2nd, 2016 Awake Goy (NaturalNews) It was announced this week that 7th graders in Rhode Island would be required to have the Gardasil HPV vaccine as a requirement for attending school. The Providence Journal[1] reports: (Story by Brian Shilhavy, republished from VaccineImpact.com.) Starting this fall, seventh-graders in all public and private schools will be required to get […]
Posted in World News Tags: air, attack, base, force, indian, pakistani, punjab, terrorists No Comments »Hurricane Patricia Becomes Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded
October 23rd, 2015 Awake Goy Mexico’s Pacific coast is in the crosshairs of Hurricane Patricia, which became the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere on Friday morning as its maximum sustained winds reached an unprecedented 200 mph (320 kph). The hurricane is forecast to make landfall in the Mexican state of Jalisco Friday evening as […]
