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By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: December 8, 2020 4:12:15 am Farmers at the Singhu border in New Delhi on Monday. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) A day after a united opposition extended its support to the December 8 Bharat Bandh called by farmer groups in protest, …

AGRA: PM Modi on Monday he said development reforms are needed and some laws since the last century they have become a burden now. He said this when inaugurating the construction of Agra Railway metro project through videoconference. “The reforms are very necessary for a new order and to provide …

New Delhi: Scotland Yard has reportedly made a series of arrests after warning of enforcement measures before thousands of protesters from different parts of the UK gathered in front of the High Commission of India in central London on Sunday, as shows support for farmers protesting against agricultural reforms in …

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday criticized opposition parties for politicizing concerns about recently passed farm laws and misleading farmers, saying they oppose Narendra Modi’s government for the sake of doing so. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that political parties that have supported the farmers’ ongoing protest …

Farmers protesting the three farm laws passed by Parliament have called on ‘Bharat Bandh’ in a sign that they are intensifying their uproar. The national strike will begin at 11 a.m. and continue until 3 p.m., as the protesters said they don’t want to cause trouble for the common man. …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that development reforms are needed and some laws from the past century have become a burden now. The comments were made during the virtual inauguration of the Agra subway railway project, at a time when farmers are protesting the three laws passed by …

Agricultural Laws: Ravi Shankar Prasad said that contract farming also started during the Manmohan Singh government. New Delhi: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today accused non-BJP parties of jumping on the farmers’ protest train, saying that all that has been done in the agricultural sector reforms of the government of …

The Union government’s relentless attempts to resolve the farmers ‘unrest through dialogue are making little progress and few of the farmers’ unions are standing firm in their demand to repeal the new farm laws. While farmers expect the government to send out the new draft with amendments before they reach …

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was detained on Monday after he launched a sit-in outside his residence in Lucknow before he was prevented from going to Kannauj to lead a protest against the Center’s three agricultural laws. More than hundreds of party workers, who continued their protest against the agricultural …

Barricades and a riot squad have been placed in front of the residence of former Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow to prevent him from going to Kannauj to lead a farmers’ protest. The chairman of the Samajwadi Party had announced Kisaan Yatra throughout the state – on …