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Most major markets in the city were closed today as traders downed shutters to voice their protest against the sealing drive. A large number of traders, their family members and employees gathered at the Ramlila grounds to participate in a mega rally to mark their protest at the attack on their livelihoods, trade association leaders said. “Thousands of traders are participating in the strike and shops are closed in all the markets of the city,” said Praveen Khandelwal, general secretary of Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT). Today’s strike has…

Union minister Ananth Kumar today accused opposition MPs, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, of ridiculing Parliament and said people would give them a “befitting reply” for mocking the process of a no-confidence motion. The tactics would boomerang on the opposition, the Union parliamentary affairs minister said, a day after opposition parties protested in the Lok Sabha by holding placards to suggest they had numbers to move a no-confidence motion against the government. The second leg of the budget session, which started on March 5, seemed to be heading for a…