New Delhi: The BJP on Friday slammed the government on the issue of cartoon of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar in school text books and accused Congress of "insulting" Gujjar, Jat, Sikh and Jain communities in text books. "For the last two days, this government has been committing mistakes and apologising. It commits a mistake in the morning and apologises in the evening. On Thursday, the Leader of the House in...
08:27 PM, May 11, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday urged Jat agitators to exercise restraint and cremate the body of the youth, who was killed in alleged police firing this week in Hisar district. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the assembly session which concluded here, he said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala has already apprised the House with the entire situation concerning the ongoing agitation. He said...
02:39 AM, Mar 10, 2012
Hisar: One person was killed and several others were injured as members belonging to the Jat community clashed with police near Ramayan village in Hisar on Tuesday. The incident took place when members of the community were protesting against police for detaining top Jat leaders and rounding up agitators squatting near the railway track at Ramayan village late on Monday night. Hisar District Commissioner has called in the Army to...
09:34 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Meerut: The crucial Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh might be inching towards culmination but the excitement is far from over, especially in western parts of the state where parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo Jat voters, who still hold the key in Meerut. The western part, which goes to polls in the seventh and final phase, is predominantly inhabited by the Jat community and all parties, including the...
03:48 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Jodhpur: Sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna on Monday got support from Jat community whose leaders today protested against his dismissal in connection with the mysterious disappearance of Bhanwari Devi. Several pradhans, sarpanches and block presidents affiliated to the ruling Congress tendered their resignations to register their protest. The pradhan of Baori panchayat along with 18 sarpanches, 11 panchayat samiti members and four zila parishad members have already rendered their resignations...
01:21 AM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: Jat protesters in Jind have blocked roads and rail routes, cutting of Jind from the rest of the country. They are demanding a fresh probe into the Mirchpur incident in which two Dalits were burnt to death last April. The protesters want 98 Jats who stand accused to be brought back to Hissar jail. Ten companies of central paramilitary forces have been sent to Jind after the Haryana...
12:03 PM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: Agitating members of the Jat community blocked rail traffic at Jind in Haryana on Sunday. The protesters are demanding a fresh CBI probe into the Mirchpur incident in which two Dalits were torched to death last April. Protesters want the accused to be brought back to Hissar jail rather than being tried at Tihar in Delhi. Sources say that members of the Jat community, have been on an...
11:12 AM, Jan 16, 2011
Hisar (Haryana): Barring a stray incident of road block, life was limping back to normalcy in Hisar on Wednesday, where curfew has been lifted as agitating Jats demanding quota suspended their protests after the state government agreed to some of their demands. Prohibitory orders has been imposed in the region here while educational institutions are closed as a precautionary measure. "The situation in Hisar district is normal. No untoward incident...
03:13 PM, Sep 15, 2010
Hisar: Hours after Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced a peace-deal with the protesting Jat community members, protests have begun again in the region. Two protesters were killed while they were attempting to stop a goods train at the Narwana railway station in Jind district. This triggered a violent reaction when protesters tried to set the Dharodi railway station on fire. Protestors have blocked roads from Hisar to Jindh...
10:05 AM, Sep 15, 2010
Hisar: Thousands of Jats have blocked the Chandigarh-Hisar Highway for the second consecutive day on Tuesday demanding reservation in government jobs for their community. Haryana Roadways has cancelled its services in all Jat-dominated areas of the state as a precautionary measure. Curfew has been imposed in Hisar and Army called out to help the district administration in maintaining peace in the area. On Monday, protestors had torched a bus and...
12:14 PM, Sep 14, 2010
The protesters, who were from the Jat community, were demanding reservation in government jobs. ...
03:26 PM, Sep 13, 2010
A Jat delegation will meet the Social Justice Department Additional Secretary on the reservation issue. ...
12:18 PM, Jun 14, 2010
The Congress' troubles with the Jat community surfaced in Jaipur. ...
01:34 AM, Feb 04, 2009
Dhaka: Skipper Shahid Afridi led from the front as formidable Pakistan crushed the West Indies by 10 wickets to reach the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1999 on Wednesday. Afridi spearheaded a spin assault on the flat-footed West Indies batsmen who crashed for 112 in 43.3 overs, a target Pakistan surpassed easily in the 21st over at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium. The leg-spinner, already the tournament's leading wicket-taker,...
11:46 AM, Jan 06, 2008
The flashpoint was the murder of a Dalit man allegedly by three Jats. ...
12:11 PM, Aug 29, 2007
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