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There were 4,649 ceasefire violations by Pakistan on the Line of Control Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The ceasefire violations have been increasing since 2011, the Defence Minister said.
He said that about 14,000 bunkers were being built and majority of them have been completed to save civilian lives.
Singh said the Jammu and Kashmir government has been providing compensations to the victims’ families. The same parameters are adopted in case of animals.

Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, today appealed to the government to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. He was speaking on a Bill to amend the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.

A gang of protestors, which survives on agitations. They are present whenever and wherever there are agitations, whether the agitations are by students or by farmers. These people are dangerous to the nation and there is a need to be aware of such agitators.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear in his reply in Rajya Sabha, to the Presidential Address that the three farm laws, which are being opposed by farmers in the country, are here to stay.

The anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance in the ensuing state assembly elections is gathering momentum, with the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) deciding to support it.

Kerala government to implement Eleventh Pay Commission recommendations, in case of its employees. The revision of the salaries will be effective from April 1, while the dearness allowance will be implemented with retrospective effect from July 1, 2019. The other allowances recommended by the Commission will be effective from March 1, 2021.

The Union Government is sending a three-member medical team to Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh, where over 300 children have taken ill due to some undiagnosed disease.

The Indian Army has joined the operations, along with the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), to rescue those trapped under the debris in Chamoli district of Uttarkhand,, after a glacier broke off.

Opposition parties today boycott the President's address to the join session of parliament, demanding the withdrawal of the three farm laws.

After the members made their tributes to the deceased members, opposition parties led by the Congress entered the well of the Central Hall of parliament, shouting slogans demanding  the withdrawal of the farm laws. The Shiv Sena members also shouted slogans but due not go to the well.

The opposition members then boycotted the President's address.

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has threatened to hang himself where the farmers are protesting, demanding the scrapping of the three farm laws, if the administration tries to evict the protesting farmers.