NEW DELHI: One day before the crucial seventh round of talks between the Center and protesters farmers unions, farming Minister Narendra singh Tomar met with the defense minister Rajnath singh on Sunday and discussed the government’s strategy to resolve the current crisis as soon as possible, the sources said. Tomar …
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NEW DELHI: A day after more than 850 academics spoke out in support of three agricultural laws, the Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the central government’s commitment to the welfare of farmers it is ‘incomparable’. “More than 850 academics from around the country have demonstrated in support of the …
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NEW DELHI: Three union ministers joined agricultural leaders on Wednesday to share ‘langar’ food organized by farmers protesting during their sixth round of talks to resolve the deadlock new agricultural laws. Food from the ‘langar’ (community kitchen) arrived in a van at the meeting place, Vigyan Bhawan, after about two …
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NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Drink On Wednesday he said the government has agreed to resolve concerns of protesting farmers on the increase in the electricity rate and penalties for burning stubble. However, the stagnation of the main contentious issues of the repeal of three agricultural laws …
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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 …
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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 …
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NEW DELHI: Threatening to further intensify their protest, peasant leaders said on Saturday that they are ready to hold talks with the government, but will first discuss repealing all three. new agricultural laws. Address a press conference at Singhu border, farmer leader Kanwalpreet Singh Pannu said that thousands of farmers …
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Pradeep Singh, 37, gave a meticulous breakdown of the amount of money he spends to grow rice on an acre of his farm in Haryana’s Jhajjar district. Pays Rs 4,500 to hire 10 daily salaried workers to plant the seed, Rs 3,600 to rent a tractor, Rs 1,200 for fertilizers, …
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NEW DELHI: Three recently enacted core farm laws, which have implications across India, are at the center of strong opposition that has now drawn non-NDA political parties from across the country to the farmers’ side stirrers. Although the government has tried to explain how these laws will ultimately benefit farmers, …
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More than thirty years after hundreds of thousands of farmers led by Mahendra Singh Tikait brought Delhi to its knees, a new agricultural upheaval has once again rocked Delhi. A government concerned that it could be seen as ‘anti-farmer’ agreed to reconsider recent farm laws, which promised to open rural …
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