A former Massachusetts State Police lieutenant will spend five years in federal prison and pay fines and assessments just short of $508,000 for his part in the agency overtime fraud scandal. U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman sentenced Daniel Griffin, 60, of Belmont, to five years in prison and three years of supervised release … Read more
Congress’ Rahul Gandhi promises India’s youth a year-long apprenticeship with Rs 8500 per month stipend, if voted to power in 2024. While speaking at the INDIA bloc rally in Bihar’s Bhagalpur, the Congress leader also promised Rs 8500 per month for women belonging to poor families across India. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! … Read more
The Massachusetts State Police have added their suspect in a Christmas Eve 2023 murder at a Lawrence nightclub to the agency’s Most Wanted list. State Police and Lawrence Police are searching for Franklin Laras, 27, who they believe was the shooter in the murder of 29-year-old Edward Javier-Perez at the Energy Lounge nightclub in Lawrence. … Read more
New Delhi: The BJP has made a host of new promises in its Lok Sabha poll manifesto including for farmers’ empowerment like the launch of a Krishi Infrastructure Mission for coordinated implementation of agri-infrastructure projects, while steering clear of some others mentioned in the past. In its 2024 manifesto, the BJP has repeated its promise … Read more
Shubkaran Singh, a 22-year-old Indian farmer, succumbed to injuries sustained during police action against farmers on Wednesday. The incident took place in the town of Khanauri, near the border between Punjab and Haryana states, when farmers resumed their march to Delhi and the police tried to stop them. Singh died of a head injury received … Read more
Haryana Police on Friday fired tear gas shells to disperse protesting farmers when they moved towards the barricades at the Shambhu border near Ambala. The fresh confrontation comes on the fourth day of the farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to demand a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for crops. Protesting farmers from Punjab have … Read more
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the Modi government of crushing the voice of farmers after ”failing” to fulfil the promises made to them over 10 years.(Representative image/News18) Party general secretary Randeep Surjewala said the Congress supports the farmers’ agitation and questioned why authorities were resorting to ”dictatorial” behaviour by putting up barricades and converting Delhi … Read more
The Congress and the CPI(M) on Tuesday lashed out at the Modi government for “surrendering” Rs one lakh crore of agriculture budget in the last five years while farmers in the country suffered and many of its promises to them remained unfulfilled. Addressing a press conference here, Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda said the Standing … Read more
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha will convene a countrywide convention in Punjab in January next year to deliberate on an action plan for their demands of legal guarantee of MSP for all crops, debt trap, and stopping privatisation of electricity, the collective said on Friday. The All-India Farmers Convention will discuss alternative policies to overcome the … Read more
