Tag Archives: Farm bills 2020

The Center will resume rail services in Punjab only when blockades along the railroad tracks are cleared, rail board chairman and chief executive VK Yadav said Thursday, adding that the state government has ensured that all locks will be removed on Friday. As of Thursday night, 14 of the 32 …

Amarinder Singh has risen to the occasion in this crisis. Even in the past he has spoken out on key issues, even if that meant going against the Center or his own party. For example, he resigned from Congress after Operation Bluestar in 1984 and took on the UPA government …

CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi party The MLAs spent Monday night indoors Punjab assembly demanding copies of the farm bill that the state Congress government is now expected to present on Tuesday. On Monday, the opposition criticized the Punjab government for failing to introduce a bill to counter the Center’s new …

By: Express News Service | Bangalore | Updated: October 10, 2020 9:27:41 am Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut. (Proceedings) A Karnataka court on Friday ordered a local police station to hire actress Kangana Ranaut for her tweet about farmers protesting new laws in the agricultural sector. The ruling came after lawyer …

Written by Navjeevan Gopal | Chandigarh | Updated: October 7, 2020 7:21:11 am Sukhbir Badal at the Idea Exchange on Tuesday Shiromani Akali Dal Chairman and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Tuesday that the BJP had been cold allies since winning a gross majority in 2019, and from the …

Written by Varinder Bhatia | Updated: October 6, 2020 10:16:45 pm Dushyant Chautala interacts with farmers in Sirsa. (File / PTI) Haryana’s young Senior Deputy Minister Dushyant Chautala and his Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) have been much more in farmers’ line of fire and Opposition on the contentious new farm …

Six days after Akali Dal severed ties with the BJP over agricultural laws, the newly appointed national secretary general of the saffron party, Tarun Chugh, said on Friday that the party will contest all 117 seats in the 2022 assembly elections in Punjab. . The state will have a BJP …

The 2015 Shanta Kumar Committee found that only about 6 percent of farmers actually sell their crops at MSP rates. This is because MSP acquisitions by the government do not occur uniformly and because it is the same across India it does not necessarily benefit all farmers. For example, C2 …

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 27, 2020 8:57:17 pm Women sit on the train track during the ‘rail roko’ protest in the Amritsar village of Devi Dasspura on Sunday (Express photo by RANA SIMRANJIT SINGH) President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday gave his consent to …

Written by Anju Agnihotri Chaba | Jalandhar | Updated: September 26, 2020 8:04:11 pm Farm workers planting rice seedlings at Kajjal Majra Village in Fatehgarh Sahib district. Express photo of Jasbir Malhi In order to nullify the negative impact of the Draft Farm Bill on the Trade and Trade of …