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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicDharna

Topic: dharna

Circular banning protests, strikes in Parliament House not new, Rajya Sabha issued rule in 2001

AAP MP Sanjay Singh, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh & Manish Tewari took to social media to protest 'new rule', which also allegedly bans fasts and religious ceremonies.

Ahead of Punjab poll, Sidhu protests outside Kejriwal’s house, takes up Delhi teachers’ cause

Punjab Congress chief says AAP government broke promises of equal wages for contractual teachers, job creation, criticises ‘increased vacancies’ filled up by ‘contract model’.

Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel stages dharna after being stopped from exiting Lucknow airport

Speaking to the media, Baghel noted that he was going to the Congress office and not Lakhimpur Kheri, where 8 people died Sunday after violence erupted at a farmers’ protest.

Arvind Kejriwal will go down in history as only CM who went against his own officers

Kejriwal’s dharna politics is taking a toll on Delhi citizens who believed in his promises and voted overwhelmingly for his party.

Slept on road, sprawled out on L-G’s sofa: Many faces of Kejriwal’s protests

The AAP supremo has slept on pavement, stood and sat at various places, and lately parked himself overnight on L-G’s sofa in his unique forms of protest.

How a 40-day dharna over minimum wages in Rajasthan resulted in the RTI Act

A new book titled ‘The RTI Story: Power to the People’ by Aruna Roy chronicles how the simple act of demanding minimum wages became a struggle for the ‘right to know’.

Now Narendra Modi, Amit Shah & BJP MPs will fast to protest Parliament washout

The BJP MPs will observe the fast on 12 April in their respective constituencies. 

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order fails Delhi. Courtroom absolutes don’t solve bad policy

What’s needed now is a policy-based solution. The situation cannot remain suspended between denial and inaction—it has already cost lives and money.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.