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Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with farmers at a fund release event today New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi released 18 billion rupees today to more than nine million farming families under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) program. With the push of a button, Prime Minister Modi enabled …

A day after farmers’ unions, protesting on the Delhi borders against the new farm laws, said they are open to talks if a more concrete proposal is made, the government responded on Thursday saying it is ready for a “resolution. logic “of all the problems raised by farmers. . In …

Washington: A group of seven influential US lawmakers, including Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging him to raise the issue of the farmers’ protest in India with his Indian counterpart. India has called the statements by foreign leaders and politicians about the farmers’ …

WITH PRESSURE mounting on the BJP-JJP government in Haryana from farmers’ protests, Senior Vice Minister Dushyant Chautala offered on Thursday to act as a mediator between farmers and the Center to resolve the standoff. This happened on a day when a group of villagers used shovels to damage a temporary …

For now, farmers’ protests in Punjab against the Center’s three agricultural laws are bringing together, despite their differing and often conflicting interests, sectors of farmers large and small, landless farm workers and commission agents. It is also a time of unity for Punjab’s notoriously fragmented agricultural unions. The turmoil is …

Even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been coordinating with opposition leaders to hold a joint rally by anti-BJP leaders in Kolkata, on Thursday the CPM worked behind the scenes to get 11 parties, including the NCP, DMK and Congress, issue a joint statement against the BJP government …

Chandigarh: A Punjab farmer on Tuesday objected to the BJP’s alleged use of his photograph to express that the minimum support price (MSP) will continue, saying that he himself was part of the farmers’ protest against the three farm laws. A poster with a photo of Harpreet Singh appeared on …

A few days ago, driving back from Berkeley to San Francisco, I was delayed for a while in a traffic jam on the other side of the Bay Bridge. The cause of the jam was a mobile procession organized by the Sikh community, with messages of support for Indian farmers …

Written by Abhinav Rajput, Anju Agnihotri Chaba | Jalandhar, New Delhi | Updated: December 23, 2020 7:38:22 am British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (archive) Agricultural leaders said on Tuesday that they have asked British and Punjabi leaders to call on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to come to India …

Tents have already crossed the 200 figure from just 50 on December 12. New Delhi: A drop in the minimum temperature in the capital and dozens of women joining the ongoing farmers’ protest has resulted in a makeshift “tent town” propped up at a gas pump in the Singhu border …