The Delhi Traffic Police said on Saturday that two national highways, NH9 and NH24, were closed for the movement of traffic from Delhi to Ghaziabad, as farmers continue their protests against the central government agricultural reforms introduced in September. When updating travelers via Twitter, the police advised them to take …
Read More »A key farmer leader favors conversations, saying ‘goals were changed’
A key leader of the ongoing protests against three new farm laws has expressed dissatisfaction with the upheaval, breaking ranks with his colleagues on the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), a platform that is leading the protests. Sardar VM Singh, convener of the AIKSCC, told HT that the …
Read More »Farmers protest LIVE updates: Amid protests, farmers open makeshift gym on Singhu border
Delhi Police have tightened security at various border points by deploying more personnel and putting up multi-layered barricades as farmers block the Delhi-Jaipur highway today. The protests against the new agricultural reforms of the central government entered on the 18th. The protesting farmers said that the main roads linking Delhi …
Read More »LIVE updates from farmers’ protest: Amritsar-based restaurant offers meals to protesters at Ghazipur border
Farmers ‘agitation against the central government’s agricultural reforms has entered the 16th. Farmers’ unions located on the borders of the national capital have threatened to block the railroad tracks across the country if the reforms are not removed. The unions also said they would occupy the toll plaza and block …
Read More »The farmers’ protest will intensify before December 14; Stalemate Continues As Talks Fail
Farmers have been protesting against the three central government agricultural reforms for the past 15 days. Several rounds of talks have taken place between leaders of farmers’ groups and union ministers, but they have not reached a logical conclusion. The sixth round of talks that were supposed to take place …
Read More »Farmer turmoil: talks between Amit Shah and farmer leaders fail to make a breakthrough
Talks between Interior Minister Amit Shah and a select group of farmers’ representatives failed to achieve any progress Tuesday night, with union leaders insisting on their demand for repeal of three new laws and rejecting the proposed government amendment. Some leaders also threatened to boycott the sixth round of talks …
Read More »SAD and Shiv Sena meet to discuss ties and agricultural stir
The Shiromani Akali Dal delegation met on Sunday with the Prime Minister of Maharashtra and the President of Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, on various issues related to the “interference of the Center in the rights of the states”, in a significant step of the opposition political parties at the national …
Read More »Farmers across the country break language barriers and join the protest
Pooja Morey, a 30-year-old woman from Maharashtra, cheers and applauds as a farmer leader delivers a speech in Punjabi from the Singhu border stage on a warm Sunday afternoon. Morey, who does not speak Hindi very well, understands little of Punjabi, but says it doesn’t matter. “My father is a …
Read More »Opposition parties call back to Bharat bandh
A number of political parties, from Congress to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), have backed on Tuesday the call for a Bharat bandh (closure strike) in support of farmers who have gathered on Delhi’s borders to protest against three agricultural laws introduced. through the Center, as the city’s traffic police braced …
Read More »UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric says farmers ‘have the right to peacefully demonstrate’
People have the right to demonstrate peacefully and the authorities should allow them to do so, said the spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, of the protests by farmers in India. India has called the statements by foreign leaders about the farmers’ protests “misinformed” and “unjustified” as the …
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