Red Fort
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Red Fort to remain shut for visitors till January 31
India | Jan 28, 2021, 08:53 AM ISTThe Red Fort will remain closed for visitors from January 27 to January 31, according to an order issued by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
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Red Fort mayhem: Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu, gangster Lakha Sidhana booked
India | Jan 28, 2021, 09:07 AM ISTThousands of protesting farmers who reached ITO from the Ghazipur border clashed with police. Many of them driving tractors reached the Red Fort and entered the monument. They also hoisted flags on the domes.
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Haqikat Kya Hai: Watch Inside Story of the Violence at Red Fort
Hakikat Kya Hai | Jan 27, 2021, 09:40 PM ISTOn Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of farmers riding tractors and motor cycles and on foot had swarmed the Red Fort, climbed up to its ramparts while waving the tricolour, farmer union flags and pennants with religious symbols.
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'Couldn't move, it was scary': Delhi lady cop recounts moments of tractor rally violence
India | Jan 27, 2021, 06:59 PM ISTIndia's national capital was bombarded with violence on Tuesday when farmers protesting against the new Agri laws went berserk.
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Tourism Minister inspects Red Fort after protestors' raid
News | Jan 27, 2021, 06:02 PM ISTMinister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture and Tourism Prahlad Singh Patel on January 27 inspected the Red Fort, where the protestors entered and hoisted the flag during farmers' tractor rally on Republic Day. He said that a report be made on the incident at the earliest and handed over to MHA, and FIR be registered with immediate effect. He said, "I inspected Red Fort with officers of Culture Ministry and Archaeological Survey of India today. I gave 2 directions- report be made at the earliest and handed over to MHA and FIR be registered immediately. Things will be further clarified after report comes." A team of Delhi Police has also conducted a probe at Red Fort after storming incident. On Republic Day countless numbers of protestors breached the security and entered into Red Fort and hoisted flags. The Tractor Rally was organised by the farmers to protest against Center's newly enacted farm laws.
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Delhi violence: Yogendra Yadav, Rakesh Tikait, Darshan Pal among farmer leaders named in FIRs
India | Jan 27, 2021, 03:53 PM ISTThe Dehi Police has filed as many as 22 FIRs against rioters and more than 25 farmer leaders in connection with Tuesday's violence in the national capital.
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Home Minister Amit Shah chairs high-level meeting day after violence in Delhi
News | Jan 27, 2021, 02:40 PM ISTUnion Home Minister Amit Shah is currently presiding over a high-level meet in Delhi to review the law and order situation in the national capital that witnessed unprecedented violence on January 26. The meeting is being attended by Home Secretary, CRPF DG, IB Director and Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava.
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Farmers' tractor parade was peaceful until intervention of Delhi Police: Satnam Singh Pannu
News | Jan 27, 2021, 01:48 PM ISTIn an exclusive conversation with India TV, farmers' union leader Satnam Singh Pannu said that the tractor parade was peaceful until the intervention of Delhi Police. He added that he was not responsible for the seige at Red Fort.
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R-Day tractor rally: Ticket counter vanadalised, glasses shattered inside premises of Red Fort
News | Jan 27, 2021, 01:25 PM IST
Security has been beefed up in several places across Delhi especially at the Red Fort and farmer protest sites, with deployment of additional paramilitary forces following the violence. Visuals show that protesters on Tuesday broke the gates and entered the wells of the Red Fort. Many of them also managed to climb atop the ramparts where they hoisted their organisation’s flag. -
Rakesh Tikait viral video shows him asking farmers to enter Delhi with lathis - Watch
India | Jan 27, 2021, 11:37 AM ISTThe Delhi Police have registered 22 FIRs so far in connection with the violence that broke out during the farmers' tractor parade in the national capital leaving over 300 policemen injured.
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Farmers protests: Security heightened at Red Fort, Singhu border post tractor rally violence
India | Jan 27, 2021, 10:06 AM ISTElaborate security arrangements have been made near the Red Fort where a group of protestors climbed to the ramparts of the fort and unfurled flags yesterday.
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Sunny Deol distances himself from Deep Sidhu: I or my family has no connection with him
Celebrities | Jan 27, 2021, 10:05 AM ISTAs Sunny Deol's pictures with Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu went viral, the actor took to his Twitter and clarified that he has nothing to do with the actor. He also said that he is 'deeply saddened' by what happened at the Red Fort.
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Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu blamed for Red Fort violence
News | Jan 27, 2021, 09:41 AM ISTKnown to be close to Gurdaspur MP and Bollywood actor Sunny Deol, Sidhu was the election in-charge for the BJP leader during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In December last year, Deol had distanced himself from Sidhu. Even the farmers' unions had banned Sidhu last year.
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'Democratic right': Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu defends hoisting of union's flag at Red Fort
India | Jan 27, 2021, 08:40 AM ISTKnown to be close to Gurdaspur MP and Bollywood actor Sunny Deol, Sidhu was the election in-charge for the BJP leader during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In December last year, Deol had distanced himself from Sidhu. Even the farmers' unions had banned Sidhu last year.
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How situation turned ugly at Red Fort during tractor march in Delhi
India | Jan 26, 2021, 11:06 PM ISTAfter a clash between the farmers and police at ITO where hundreds of protestors were seen chasing police personnel with sticks, ramming their tractors into the buses, they then reached Red Fort.
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Tractor march violence has not hurt our credibility, protest will continue: Farmer leader's shocker
India | Jan 26, 2021, 10:17 PM ISTShiv Kumar Sharma, also called Kakkaji, one of the leading faces of the ongoing farmers protest, in an exclusive conversation with India TV on violence during tractor march in Delhi, blamed the administration in the national capital for not being able to control those who created chaos.
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Sikh religious flag 'Nishan Sahib' was hoisted by protesters at Red Fort
India | Jan 26, 2021, 05:15 PM ISTThe saffron flag hoisted by protesters from a staff at the iconic Red Fort during their tractor parade against the farm laws on Tuesday was the 'Nishan Sahib', a symbol of Sikh religion seen at all Gurdwara complexes.
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Mayhem on Delhi roads as farmers deviate from designated route | IN PICS
India | Jan 26, 2021, 11:00 PM ISTProtesting farmers on Tuesday swarmed the Red Fort during a 'tractor rally' on Republic Day amid police attempts to block them from proceeding towards central Delhi, barged into the 17th-century monument, climbed up the ramparts, and waved farmer union flags and banners and even hoisted a pennant. All this happened after thousands of farmers riding tractors and motorcycles thronged the otherwise busy ITO intersection. Police and other security personnel deployed at the Red Fort were seen lathi-charging the protesters at the monument even as the former were clearly outnumbered by the farmers. Here's a look at the protest through pictures.
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Bird flu: Red Fort shut for public till January 26 after sample of dead crow tests positive
India | Jan 19, 2021, 07:11 PM ISTAround 15 crows were found dead in the premises of Red Fort on January 10. A sample from a dead bird was sent to a Jalandhar-based laboratory for testing, Rakesh Singh, the director of the Delhi government's animal husbandry department, said.
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In a first, DRDO developed anti-drone system used for Red Fort security today
India | Aug 15, 2020, 10:09 AM ISTIn what can be seen as a first of a kind security deployment, a Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) -developed anti-drone system was deployed to guard the Red Fort during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech.