NEW DELHI / BATHINDA: Dramatically upping the ante while rejecting the Center’s proposals as “pointless amendments”, agricultural unions agitated on Wednesday saying talks could be restarted only if all three are repealed new agricultural laws was on the agenda and added a revised cost of production demand that will increase …
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NEW DELHI / BATHINDA: Dramatically upping the ante while rejecting the Center’s proposals as “pointless amendments”, agricultural unions agitated on Wednesday saying talks could be restarted only if all three are repealed new agricultural laws was on the agenda and added a revised cost of production demand that will increase …
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NEW DELHI: Amidst farmers’ agitation against central agricultural laws, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday he said that whenever groundbreaking reform was launched, there was a tendency to first scoff at it, then oppose and finally accept it. “We are currently going through this process,” Tomar said in a …
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Kisan Ekta Morcha’s Facebook page had more than 7 billion followers. The page had more than 7 lakh followers. According to protesting unions, the account was taken down shortly after Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav announced in live video that farmers will go on a relay hunger strike on Monday. …
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Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, UP and some other states are protesting against the Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services for Farmers (Empowerment and Protection), the Agricultural Products Trade and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Act and the Act Essential Products (Amendment) Act. Enacted in September, the three agricultural …
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NEW DELHI: One day before the celebration of the ‘Shraddhanjali Diwas’ (Day of Tribute) in memory of protesting farmers who died during the ongoing upheaval, agricultural unions wrote a joint ‘open’ letter to the Prime Minister on Saturday Narendra Modi and the Minister of Agriculture. Narendra Singh Tomar saying that …
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Written by Sukhbir Siwach | Chandigarh | Updated: December 19, 2020 8:43:13 am Birender Singh said he is very interested in going to the borders of Delhi, where farmers have been protesting the new laws for more than three weeks. (Express photo by Jaipal Singh) Stating that the farmer’s protest …
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Written by Manjit S Kang | Updated: December 19, 2020 9:54:20 am Farmers protesting against new agricultural laws on the Singhu border. In the early 1960s, near-famine conditions prevailed in India and about 10 million tonnes of wheat had to be imported from the United States under the PL480 program. …
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BHOPAL: One day after the Supreme Court asked the Center If he new agricultural laws Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it had been more than six months since the laws were passed and nothing was done to stop MSP or disassemble mandis. “Now all of a sudden a web of …
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NEW DELHI: The farmers“The agitation against the three new agricultural laws of the Center is entering its third week and the end of the stalemate is not in sight. The matter has reached the Supreme Court, which said the protests must be allowed to continue and called on the government …
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