Tag: Farm Laws

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana will on August 5 hear a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over 142 potential ...

Seven Opposition parties have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention to direct the government to discuss farmers’ issues and Pegasus phone-tapping in Parliament on Tuesday. According to reports, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC), ...

Ahead of the protests by agitating farmers on Saturday, intelligence agencies have alerted the Delhi police and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) about a possible ‘sabotage attempt’ by Pakistan-based groups.In a letter to the Delhi police, the CISF that secures airports and Delhi Metro, and other agencies concerned, the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that false narratives were being created around his government’s farm laws, the Citizenship Amendment Act and other legislations to create political instability in the country. While speaking at an event to mark the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 41st foundation day, Modi claimed that ...

A profound contradiction lies at the heart of contemporary India’s political economy. On the one hand, it embraces economic liberalism. In September 2020, it legislated laws aimed at liberalising agriculture from state-guaranteed protections. The recent budget, passed in February, was high on promises of accelerating divestment of public sector ...

A fire lit by government: NC. Ambedkar, Syama Prasad Mookerjee opposed it: Minister The discussion on the supplementary demands for grants for Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry in the Lok Sabha became the site of an intense debate between the ruling BJP and the Opposition on the events in ...

London: The UK parliamentary debate called on Monday over safety of protesters and the right to report the protests freely turned out to be as one-sided as expected. The Indian High Commission condemned the debate as such. Seen another way, this meant that just about every MP who turned ...

Police fires teargas shells as farmers attempt to march towards Delhi during the 'Kisan Gantantra Parade', amid the 72nd Republic Day celebrations, at Akshardham in New Delhi, Tuesday. (PTI)Jammu and Kashmir United Kisan Front Chairman Mohinder Singh, a resident of Chatha area of Jammu city, is the first person ...

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure that the farmers’ protest against the agriculture laws is urgently resolved, reported PTI. A state government released said that Singh also expressed concerns about the threat to Punjab’s agriculture sector, resulting from the “disruptions caused ...

The Centre has directed Twitter to block nearly 1,200 accounts with suspected links to Khalistan sympathisers or Pakistan, The Hindu reported on Monday. The government said these accounts were causing a threat to public order amid the farmers’ protest against agricultural laws.An unidentified official told the newspaper that many ...