By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 10:42:51 pm Arhtiyas in Punjab began their four-day strike against the income tax raids, which they allege were carried out to intimidate them for supporting farmers’ agitation against the Center’s farm laws. Even when the protests against the …
Read More »
Written by Anju Agnihotri Chaba, Harikishan Sharma | Jalandhar, New Delhi | Updated: December 22, 2020 7:32:11 am Protesting farmers listen to a speech while camping on a highway on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border outside New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: AP) A day after the government invited farmers’ representatives to …
Read More »
Written by Kamaldeep Singh Brar, Sukhbir Siwach | Chandigarh, Tarn Taran | Updated: December 22, 2020 8:02:31 am Farmers protest against new agricultural laws on the Gazipur border in New Delhi. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha) WITH protests against the Center’s new farm laws approaching its fourth week without any …
Read More »
Written by Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: December 4, 2020 7:07:19 am The farmers’ delegation after Thursday’s meeting. (Express photo by Tashi Tobgyal) On Thursday, the CENTRAL government gave up some ground and said it would reconsider certain provisions of the new farm laws, but the conversations were …
Read More »
Written by Raakhi Jagga | Ludhiana | November 27, 2020 10:24:16 am Policemen use handcuffs to chain the barricades erected to prevent farmers from crossing the Punjab-Haryana border during the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march near Ambala on Thursday. (PTI photo) As farmers associated with 29 farmers’ unions broke through barricades at …
Read More »
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 4, 2020 8:00:45 pm Rahul Gandhi will hold mass public meetings and tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana over three days. (Express photo by Gurmeet Singh) From the heart of the protests against the three controversial farm laws in Moga, …
Read More »
Protesting against the new farm laws, farmers sit at the train station in Jalandhar for an indefinite period as part of their agitation of the roko railway in Punjab on Thursday. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh) The main opposition party in Haryana leaves no stone unturned to turn the demonstration …
Read More »
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 7:59:59 pm Prime Minister Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday that the agricultural reform bills passed by Parliament are “necessary for India in the 21st century.” To allay farmers’ fears, Modi said: “I want to make …
Read More »
Written by Harish Damodaran | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 12:23:43 pm Farmers walk through a rice field when they return after the day’s work in Prayagraj (AP) On many occasions, it is not the law, but what it seems to convey and the context in which it …
Read More »