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The Union Government will hold the sixth round of talks with protesting farmers today. New Delhi: The sixth round of talks between the government and farmers to demand the repeal of the Center’s new agricultural laws will take place today at 2 pm. The government expects a breakthrough to resolve …

Referring to farmers as the backbone of the nation’s economy, Union Minister Rajnath Singh said he is hurt by farmers holding demonstrations and the government is striving to increase farmers’ income. Speaking on a variety of issues, including the confrontation between India and China and religious conversion, Rajnath Singh, during …

The Union government will hold the sixth round of talks with protesting farmers’ unions on Wednesday, a fresh attempt to resolve a politically defiant strike by farmers who have surrounded the capital and want three recent farm laws in favor of reform. Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal had sent a letter …

Before the resumption of talks with the Center on Wednesday, farmers’ unions, protesting outside Delhi against the new farm laws, wrote to the government saying that the discussion can only be on a four-point agenda that includes modalities to repeal laws and provide a legal guarantee on the minimum support …

The Center and protesting farmers’ unions will hold talks on Wednesday, the sixth round of dialogue between the two sides to resolve the deadlock. The talks will take place in Delhi after farmers’ unions agreed to restart negotiations. The Center had sent an invitation to these unions on Monday to …

The supreme and former PNC Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday accused the Center of demolishing three new agricultural laws without consulting the states and stated that agriculture cannot be managed “sitting in Delhi” as it involves farmers working in distant villages. As farmers protest on the borders of Delhi …

NEW DELHI: The protesting farmers’ unions wrote a letter to the Center on Tuesday, saying that talks between the two sides on December 30 should be strictly limited to the agenda items they had previously specified. Meanwhile, Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal met with Interior Minister Amit …

The head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar, criticized the Center on Tuesday for excluding state governments and not consulting them on the three contentious new farm laws, prompting protests from farmers since last month. The passage of the laws has led thousands of farmers to camp on …

Thousands of farmers have camped in Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border for more than a month (archive) New Delhi: Farmers gathered in Singhu, on the Delhi-Haryana border to protest against the center’s agricultural laws, will receive free Wi-Fi, AAP leader Raghav Chadha said Tuesday afternoon. Chadha said the Aam Aadmi …

The traffic situation on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border and on the Delhi-Noida border remained the same on Tuesday, with normal vehicular movement for motorists leaving Delhi, but blocked for those heading towards the capital. The Singhu and Tikri borders, however, remain completely blocked due to ongoing farmer agitation. Deputy Police Commissioner …