Around 100 Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) members forcefully occupied Noida toll plaza of DND flyway today and allowed vehicles to ply without paying toll for around half an hour to protest levy of toll on users of the flyway.

Mahendra Singh Tikait, a farmer leader from prosperous western Uttar Pradesh who spearheaded many a struggle uniting peasants in North India, died on Sunday due to bone cancer.