By: Express News Service | Jalandhar | December 18, 2020 9:23:19 am The Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. (Archive) Amid unprecedented agitation against the Center’s agricultural laws by farmers across the country and particularly in the country’s capital, 10 economists from various universities have written to the Union Minister …
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The Delhi Traffic Police announced on Friday that the Delhi-Noida road on the Chilla border will be open to traffic, but the other side will remain closed in the face of protests from farmers, who have been camping on the borders of the national capital for 23 days. . Another …
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Written by Somya Lakhani | New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 8:55:25 am The protest site on the Singhu border in New Delhi on Thursday. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha) IT WAS a few nights ago that the idea for a newsletter in Hindi and Punjabi was born inside …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak about the “beneficial provisions” of the new agricultural laws in his address to Madhya Pradesh farmers as part of a Kisan Kalyan Sammelan on Friday. This comes a day after hundreds of farmers across the state started a walking march from Morena in support …
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday that the three agricultural laws are not aimed at farmers, but have been made to secure funding for the elections for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when he launched a scathing attack on center. Kejriwal tore copies of the three farm laws …
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Written by Parthasarathi Biswas | Pune | December 17, 2020 5:51:37 am The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which met on Wednesday, also approved an export incentive of up to 60 lakh tonnes (lt) of sugar for the 2020-21 season. Just one month after announcing a Rs 65,000 crore boost …
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday criticized Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejirwal for breaking the Center’s three agricultural bills in the one-day session of the Delhi Assembly. Lekhi noted that the three farm laws had been published in the Delhi Gazette on November 23 and that they …
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Center to consider postponing the implementation of the agricultural laws as a step towards resuming dialogue with agricultural unions that oppose the laws. The immediate response of Attorney General KK Venugopal was: “That (postponement) is not possible.” When the high court …
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The Supreme Court on Thursday recognized farmers’ right to non-violent protests and proposed the idea of suspending controversial farm laws to allow negotiations with agitating farmers, which the Center objected saying that farmers would not show up to the protests. conversations The high court, which made it clear that the …
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Agitated farmers’ unions on the Delhi borders said on Thursday they will consult lawyers on ongoing Supreme Court proceedings related to their protests against three farm laws before making any decisions. At a press conference on the Singhu border on Thursday evening, Farmer Leader and Rashtriya Coordinator Kisan Mahasangh KV …
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