Jat Agitation
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Jat Stir: With rail, roads blocked, Chandigarh-Delhi airfares touch Rs 1 Lakh
India | Feb 22, 2016, 09:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: Amid the Jat community's agitation for job quota, which led to the multiple blockades of roads and railway tracks in Haryana, the one-way plane fares from Chandigarh, Amritsar and Jaipur to the capital
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Jat stir: Death toll rises to 16 as fresh violence erupts in Haryana
India | Feb 22, 2016, 10:38 PM ISTChandigarh: The government's promises and the call by some Jat leaders to end protests appeared to bear little fruit as violence continued to rage in Haryana after a brief halt in the morning. Rampaging mobs torched government vehicles
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Jat stir spurs Delhi-Chandigarh air fares 15-20 times
India | Feb 21, 2016, 10:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: As Haryana is convulsed by the Jat community's agitation for job quota, which has led to obstruction of the Delhi-Chandigarh highway, private airlines have hiked their fares 15-20 times.Since Saturday, the airlines were
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Jat row: Govt sets up committee to look into reservation demand
India | Feb 22, 2016, 07:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today announced that a high-powered committee headed by Venkaiah Naidu has been set up to look into the demand of the Jats for reservation in central government jobs.Singh
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Jat stir: Manohar Lal Khattar likely to visit Rohtak to monitor situation
National | Feb 21, 2016, 07:32 PM ISTChandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is likely to visit Rohtak, the epicentre of Jats stir for quota, to take stock of the situation in the town, official sources said today.Khattar along with some
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Jat stir: Supreme court to hear petition moved by Delhi government tomorrow
India | Feb 21, 2016, 07:11 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Supreme court today agreed to give urgent hearing tomorrow to the petition moved by Delhi government seeking Centre's intervention for the uninterrupted supply of water from Munak Canal in Haryana which is
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Jat row: Punjab's industry feels the pinch
India | Feb 21, 2016, 06:20 PM ISTChandigarh: The impact of ongoing pro quota Jat stir in Haryana is being felt on Punjab's industry and traders who are facing shortage of raw materials and a halt in dispatches of finished products to
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Jat Agitation: Randeep Hooda appeals 'Jats' to have peaceful dialogue with govt
Bollywood | Feb 21, 2016, 06:10 PM ISTMumbai: Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda has appealed to the people of the Jat community, who have been agitating for quotas, to maintain peace and engage in peaceful dialogue with the government.Randeep, who himself belongs to
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Over 1000 trains hit by Jat stir in north India
India | Feb 21, 2016, 03:03 PM ISTNew Delhi:The Jat agitation for quota has hit rail services hard in the northern states, affecting around 1000 trains with 736 trains cancelled and 105 diverted besides damage to rail property, causing a loss of Rs
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Jat agitation: Maruti Suzuki suspends operations at Gurgaon, Manesar plants
Feb 20, 2016, 05:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Saturday suspended operations at its two plants in Gurgaon and Manesar as component supplies have been hit by the agitation of Jats demanding job reservation."Operations
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Know the reasons behind violent Jat agitation in Haryana
National | Feb 20, 2016, 04:43 PM ISTNew Delhi: Jats of Haryana have resorted to violence which reflects both their desperation as well as frustration over getting them included in the OBC Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.Honestly speaking, the crass opportunism practiced
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Hardik Patel arrives in Delhi to seek support of Jats and Gujjars
India | Aug 30, 2015, 01:17 PM ISTNew Delhi: Hardik Patel, who is spearheading the Patel quota agitation, is expected to hold talks with quota stir leaders, including Gujjars and Jats in the national capital today."We are thinking of holding a protest
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Jat Stir, Protesters Lift Road Blockades
India | Mar 11, 2012, 06:24 PM ISTHisar, Mar 11: The Jats, demanding quota in government jobs, seemed to have relented a bit on their stand with the protesters lifting their sit-ins on various roads, including Hisar-Delhi and Hisar-Chandigarh national highways.In a