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Peasants protesting have threatened to intensify their protests Rewari (Haryana): Haryana police and farmers protesting on Sunday came close to a clash on the Rewari-Alwar border after hundreds of protesters began marching towards Delhi to join the main agitation against the center’s controversial agricultural laws. The police reportedly fired several …

With the farmers agitation now in its sixth week, Congress President Sonia Gandhi launched a tirade against the Center on Sunday, saying it was for the first time since Independence such an “arrogant” government that it had come to power that it cannot see the sufferings of ‘annadatas’. In a …

Farmers have been protesting against the new agricultural laws near the Delhi border points (archive) New Delhi: Punjab farmers have sent legal notices to Union Minister Giriraj Singh, Gujarat Senior Deputy Minister Nitin Patel, and BJP Leader Ram Madhav for their alleged defamatory / derogatory statement about ongoing turmoil at …

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar. (AND ME) Khattar’s comments follow the defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections to three of the five municipal corporations in the state. Haryana farmers are up in arms against the three controversial farm laws passed by the Center. News18.com Last update: December …

Written by Raakhi Jagga | Chandigarh, Ludhiana, New Delhi | Updated: December 31, 2020 7:05:12 am With mounting pressure on the congressional government in Punjab, Reliance Jio and ASSOCHAM separately wrote to Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday with the telecommunications giant seeking his intervention to take action against …

The government has maintained that multiple consultations were held with farmers before approving the bills New Delhi: Despite the center repeatedly claiming that it conducted multiple ‘stakeholder’ consultations before passing the three controversial farm laws, a response to an RTI query submitted by NDTV says the government “has no record …

NEW DELHI: One day before the next round of talks between the Center and the farmers protesting against the three new agricultural laws, Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Piyush Goyal I met the BJP leader and the Minister of the Interior Amit shah on Tuesday. The sources said they …

NEW DELHI: The government on Monday invited protesting farmers’ unions to dialogue on December 30 to end the stalemate on the three new farm laws. The previous five rounds of talks between the government and farmers have failed to break the stalemate on contentious legislation, and the turmoil is now …

New Delhi: The Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations are once again in the spotlight amid the agitation by farmers across the country against the three controversial farm laws passed by the Narendra Modi government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar recently claimed once again that the Congress-led …

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government is ready to hold talks on “issues, logic and facts” with farmers protesting against the new farm laws, farmers’ unions announced the resumption of talks on 29 from December. Following deliberations on the government’s offer for the talks, farmers’ unions, …