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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for insulting the drought-affected farmers of Tamil Nadu and said that they are being disrespected by not talking to farmers on their demand for relief package.

He commented on Jantar Mantar, where the farmers of Tamil Nadu have been sitting on protest for 18 consecutive days. Rahul went to meet these farmers.

While addressing the Modi government as anti-poor and anti-farmer, Rahul said that the Prime Minister only cares about the demands of select group of industrialists.

He said, the farmers have been sitting here for a long time. But neither the government nor the Prime Minister is listening to them. People and farmers of Tamil Nadu should listen. The Prime Minister is not taking the initiative to talk to them and disrespect them.

Congress vice-president said, in the last three years, the debt of 50 industrialists Rs 1.4 lakh crore has been waived.

He said why is not being done with such farmers? Why is not the loan forgiven? It is the responsibility of the Prime Minister to do this.

The Congress Vice President interacted with the farmers sitting on the protest for 15 minutes and assured them that the Congress would fight for them.

Yogi Adityanath Government has set up anti-Romeo squads in every district of the state to crack the racket. But it is being seen that policemen are arguing in the name of anti-Romeo team.

The latest case is from Shahjahanpur, where the policemen got the young man caught in the check, bald head. When bald head's video is viral in the presence of the police, the Superintendents of Police has suspended three sepoys.

According to the locals, the boy and the girl were sitting together in a Colony near Bareilly Mod in Chowk Kotwali area. The public caught both of them and informed the police. Once known, the Anti-Romeo Squad came into action. Soon three sepoys reached the spot from Azizganj Chowki and started interrogation with the boy and the girl.

It is being told that the crowd present on the spot kept demanding bald head of the boy who was sitting with the girl. The three sepoys present on the spot joined with the crowd in the bald head. The barber was called and in the presence of the police, the boy's head shaved. The boy kept on apologizing several times, but the sepoys did not listen to him.

At the time of the forced mantle of a young man, a person involved in the viewer crowd made a video. The next day the video was viral on social sites, the officers were stirred.

On the matter, Shahjahanpur Superintendent of Police K.B. Singh said that the accused, Suhail, Laik and Sonu, who were present on the spot, were immediately suspended. In addition, the investigation of the case has been handed over to CO City.

In India, prices of petrol and diesel have come down from Friday midnight. Petrol is cheaper by Rs 3.77 per litre and diesel is 2.91 rupees per litre.

Public oil companies have announced this reduction in the prices of petroleum products. At present, the price of petrol in Delhi is Rs 71.14 per litre and diesel is priced at Rs 59.02 per litre.

Indian Oil Corporation says that the price of petrol has been cut by Rs 3.77 per litre. It does not include state levy. That is, the deduction on the inclusion of the local levy will be high.

Similarly, diesel price has been cut by Rs 2.91 per litre. This deduction does not include state levy. Earlier, the prices were revised on January 16.

In India, the Central Government has cut the interest rate on the small savings schemes like Public Provident Fund (PPF), Kisan Vikas Patra and Sukanya Samrudhi Yojana for the first quarter of FY 2017-18, by 10 basis points i.e. 0.10 per cent, which Will be effective from 01 April.

The Finance Ministry has changed the interest rates of small savings schemes for the first quarter of the financial year 2017-18 through a notification issued today.

This deduction will not apply to post office savings accounts.

After this cut, the investment in PPF will now get 7.9 per cent interest every year whereas the first eight per cent was available. Similarly, the National Savings Certificate with a five year maturity will also get 7.9 percent interest. The Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) will get 7.6 percent interest on investment and it will mature in 112 months.

The annual interest rate on Sukanya Samrudhi Yojana will now be 8.4 percent. The interest rate on the Senior Citizens Savings Deposit Scheme will also be reduced to 8.4 percent. Apart from this, the interest rate on the recurring deposit (RD) will be 7.2 percent.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio said on Friday that so far 7.2 million subscribers have received their prime membership. Along with that, the company has announced to extend the offer till April 15.

The company has said that seeing the unexpected demand, it has extended the Jio Prime Offer period. Customers can now become prime members by April 15.

Along with this, the company has announced a compilation offer of upto 303 rupees or more for up to three months till April 15. The period for becoming a prime member of the company was to end today.

It has been stated in the statement of the company that its customers who can not subscribe for Jio Prime till March 31, they can be subscribed by paying 99 rupees by April 15 and can purchase a plan worth 303 rupees or other.

Along with this, the company has announced the Jio Summar Surprise to the Jio-Prime members. The company's chairman Mukesh Ambani has said in the letter to the customers that prior to April 15, the first three months of service for the prime customers who will recharge 303 rupees or more, will be given on a computational basis. The fee plan for them will be applicable only in July, after the completion of the compiler service.

It is worth mentioning that the company started the formal launch of its services in September last year.

After meeting with Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the attitude of meat businessmen has softened. All India Jamiatul Quresh's delegation has urged meat businessmen to end the strike.

Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Siddhartha Nath Singh told reporters that the intention of the members of the state government and the delegation is the same. Both want that meat should not be illegal business.

He said that on Thursday evening, a large delegation of people from several states related to the meat business in his government house with the Chief Minister met. Apart from Uttar Pradesh, meat exporters of Delhi and Mumbai were also involved.

In a conversation lasting 30 minutes, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the government is everyone. She does not want to discriminate with anyone. The motive of the government is to obey the orders of the Supreme Court and the NGT. This work should have been done by the previous government only.

The Chief Minister said that any officer has not been allowed to work after seeing face or caste. If someone does such acts then strict action will be taken against him. The delegation handed over the memorandum to the Chief Minister and appreciated these things.

Sirajuddin Qureshi, national president of All India Jamaitul Quresh, who is leading the delegation, said that the meeting with the Chief Minister was successful. He will appeal to businessmen of the meat to finish the strike and start a business legally. Businesses that do not have a license are the first to apply for a license.

On a question, he said that in most cases the business has been closed due to shortcomings. He expects that after the latest instructions of the state government, harassment by the authorities will not be done. The Chief Minister assured that if any officer has taken any action against the excitement then action will be taken against him.

India's Supreme Court has constituted a constitution bench to hear the issues of Muslim women after three divorces and divorce, taking a big decision. This bench of five judges will hear the case from May 11.

Chief Justice JS Khehar may be in the Constitution Bench.

The summer holidays in the Supreme Court starting May 11, due to this, many senior lawyers have opposed the hearing. But the court rejected the lawyers' objections and said, this is an important issue and we want to settle it. It is not ok to delay this.

The Constitution Bench said, "If you delay, you will blame us." In the holiday season that runs till June, there will probably be three constitution benchs, which will be hearing on two other issues besides three divorces.

The Muslim Personal Law Board has opposed the hearing. The Board has said that the court can not raise the issues related to the constitution on the criteria of the constitution. Fundamental rights can not be applied against the person. In the written arguments in the Supreme Court, the Board has said that three divorces are mentioned in the Holy Quran, which weigh on the criterion of the constitution, it would be like rewriting the Quran, which is not allowed.

At the same time many Muslim women organizations and three divorced victims have said that three divorces are extremely wrong and against women. Men divorced on the phone by giving a woman on the road, neither does she receive the nutritional allowance nor any security, which makes her life hell.

The central government has termed three divorces and polygamous unconstitutional and it is in favor of Muslim women. The government has said that there is no practice of divorce in Muslim countries, whereas Muslim religion has come from there.

Auto companies have announced huge discounts on two-wheelers of BS-3 standards in Delhi NCR. Companies have announced discount of 22000 rupees on motorcycles of BS-3 standards.

This announcement of the companies came just a day after the order of the Supreme Court which states that from April 1, orders have been issued to ban registration of two-wheelers with BS-3 standards.

Two leading two-wheeler makers such as Hero MotoCorp, HMSI, Bajaj Auto and Suzuki Motorcycle have announced a rebate of upto 22000 rupees on many of their models.

According to the report, 6 lakh 70 thousand bikes of eight lakh vehicles in the stock of companies in the NCR are BS-3 standard.

Dealers said they are trying to extract these vehicles from the earliest in the next 24 hours so that their minimum cost could be recovered.

Honda had initially announced a rebate of Rs 10,000 for its BS-3 scooters on its vehicles, but now this discount has been increased to motorcycles in the range of Rs 22000.

The models which are discontinued upto 22000 are Activa 3g (Price Rs 50,290), Dream Yuga (Rs 51,741), CB Shine (Rs 55,799 to Rs 61,283), CD 110 DX (Rs 47,202 to Rs 47,494).

Hero Motorcycle has announced a rebate of up to 12500 rupees in its BS-3 vehicles. The company has announced the maximum discount on its scooters.

At the same time, premium bikes have announced a rebate of Rs 7500 and a discount of 5000 rupees in the best-selling light motorcycles.

Federation of Automobile Dealers (FADA) Nikunja Sanghi, director (international affairs) told PTI, "Such a discourse has never been heard in the industry so far.

Asked what steps the dealer is taking in view of the verdict of the top court, he said, "Our emphasis is on selling as many vehicles as possible before the time limit." Our people are calling potential customers and telling them about exemption.

The Supreme Court yesterday said that the health of the people is more important than the commercial interests of the manufacturers. The apex court said that auto companies are fully aware that they have to manufacture only BS-4 standard vehicles from April 1, 2017, but despite this, they could not take any concrete steps themselves.

The Supreme Court has ordered that after April 1, vehicles with BS 3 emission standard will not be sold in India. The Supreme Court said that people's lives are more important than the business interests of the manufacturers. Since April 1 BS 4 standards are being implemented in the country. The number of ready BS3 vehicles in the factories is 8.24 lakhs, out of which six lakhs are two-wheelers.

The bench of Justice Madan Lokur and Deepak Gupta gave this order on Wednesday. Auto companies came to the Supreme Court against the implementation of the BS4 standard from April 1. In this case, the government had also supported the companies and had said that they should be allowed to sell the BS3 vehicles.

Indian companies and its dealers have a total inventory of two-wheeler vehicles of BS-3, which was about 6.71 lakh till March 20. Most of the vehicles are owned by two-wheeler companies Hero MotoCorp and Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India. Bajaj's share in this stock is around 12 per cent. Hero had nearly 2.90 million vehicles, while HMSI had estimated inventory of vehicles around 2.5 lakhs. Both companies are making full production BS-4 standard vehicles from March.

Moradabad / Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Mar 22 (ANI): After the announcement of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday that they were in the process of setting up anti-Romeo squad in the state.

The U.P. police on Wednesday arrested 20 romeos in the different locations. The Anti-romeo squad team started their operation in 11 districts that fall under Lucknow zone on Wednesday.

Supporting the decision of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that they were in the process of setting up anti-Romeo squad in the state. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday said that the main motive behind the anti Romeo squad's is to make women feel safe and to prevent any wrong incidents against women from happening. The Anti-romeo squad team started their operation in 11 districts that fall under Lucknow zone.

Jalaun (Uttar Pradesh), Mar 22 (ANI): In yet another rail mishap, a goods train derailed in Jhansi-Kanpur rail route affected on Wednesday.

According to initial reports, no casualties have been reported so far but the rail traffic movement on this particular route has been affected.