Farmers’ Protest: The focus is now on mass demonstrations in all states to gain support. (Archive) Reflexes Many of the farmers are back in the villages. Having fewer people at the borders is “part of a new strategy,” protesters say The focus now is on mass demonstrations in all states …
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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police is to secure the borders, and how! Roads are being excavated with cranes, iron fences and spikes are being cemented into the ground, layers of barricades are being placed, with concrete poured between two barriers for added stability, and concertina wires and rocks are being placed …
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Several people, including a police officer, were injured in the violence. New Delhi: Delhi police arrested 44 people, including the man who attacked a police officer on Friday with a sword during clashes on the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana, the epicenter of the two-month-long farmers’ protest against three …
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha installed free WiFi hotspots at the Singhu border on Wednesday to help protesting farmers who had been camping there for more than a month protesting the three controversial farm laws. The decision was made by “farmers sevadar Arvind Kejriwal,” Chadha had said on Tuesday …
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“We have another meeting tomorrow to make a decision on the Center’s letter. At this meeting, we can decide to resume talks with the government, as it appears in its previous letters that it has not been able to understand our problems so far,” he said. on Friday. He said …
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Mohali: Peasant leaders in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, say they have had to disguise themselves to evade heavy police surveillance and join protests against agricultural laws. Palbhai Ambaliya, Yakub Guraji and Jayesh Patel, together with other leaders and representatives of Gujarat farmers unions, had formed an umbrella …
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New Delhi: As part of their protest against the recently passed farm laws, the heads of all farmers’ unions will observe a hunger strike from 8 am to 5 pm on Monday, said agricultural leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni at the Singhu border on Sunday. “The farmers will be on a …
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NEW DELHI: One day before the crucial sixth round of government talks with protesting farmer representatives, Minister of the Interior Amit shah on Tuesday he met with a select group of union leaders in an attempt to break the deadlock. Sources said 13 farmer leaders were summoned for the meeting, …
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Farmer groups met with three Union ministers on Saturday for the fifth round of talks amid ongoing protests over the Center’s new farm laws. Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Railways, Trade and Food, Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is a …
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After the eight-hour meeting, Tomar said the government will consider all issues on Friday, and so will union leaders, before returning to the table on Saturday. When asked if the government is ready to amend the three contentious laws, he said: “I am not a fortune teller. When we meet …
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