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The Bengaluru City Police Commissioner said that the free movement of people will be guaranteed. Karnataka farmers are holding a statewide bandh on Monday, September 28, in protest against state and union governments ruled by the BJP for the controversial recently introduced farm and land use laws. The call for …

As a political battle rages to open up the agricultural sector and the procurement of agricultural products to large private players, farmers in one of the largest grain and vegetable producing states, Uttar Pradesh, are in a bind. Unlike the farmers of Haryana and Punjab, in UP the community, while …

In a historic rejig, the government has enacted a new set of laws that seek to liberalize agricultural trade, give farmers freedom to sell their products outside of regulated mandis, and enter into contracts with buyers at a previously agreed price, in the hope of Los Markets will help producers …

The Shiv Sena attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday for its silence on Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut’s tweet calling farmers protesting government-approved agricultural bills “terrorists.” El Sena, in an editorial in Saamana, said that the political party that “slithered like snakes” to what the actress said is now …

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, whose wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigned as minister of food processing industries to protest against contentious farm laws, speaks with Sunetra Choudhury on SAD’s resistance to the bill. Edited excerpts: He is about to go see the president to ask him not to …

NEW DELHI: The political dispute over the approval of two farm bills escalated dramatically on Monday with the BJP firmly defending the new agrarian reforms and the opposition intensifying its offensive against the Center. Leading the charge on the opposition, Congress announced today that it will organize nationwide protests against …

Farmers shout slogans as they block a national highway during a protest against agriculture-related bills presented by the central government, in Beas, Punjab, on September 16, 2020 (NARINDER NANU / AFP). BJP chief JP Nadda and Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar have briefed party ministers and parliamentarians to engage …

The Jammu and Kashmir Youth Congress unit on Monday organized a protest against the agricultural bills passed in Parliament on Sunday, claiming the bills were against the country’s farmers. Dozens of Youth Congress leaders and activists gathered at the Jammu Press Club while holding anti-BJP posters and raising slogans against …

NEW DELHI: With Prime Minister Modi leading the government counteroffensive from the front lines and dismissing the opposition’s accusation that soon-to-be enacted agricultural sector laws will lead to the dismantling of the MSP regime, the Center will announce a higher MSP for the rabbi (winter sown) crops next week. The …

New Delhi: On Sunday, new political dividing lines were drawn between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposition parties, which saw two key agricultural bills win Parliament’s approval amid uproar and great drama. The bone of contention between the two sides is Rajya Sabha’s vice president and the conduct …