Tag: Farmer Protests

Investment in technology must be prioritised and barriers to adoption must be addressed through essential government interventions. Published Date - 9 April 2024, 11:50 PM -By Sucheda Sardar, Amarnath Tripathi In the wake of the ongoing farmer protests, the spotlight has once again turned to ...

The scenes of farmers and agriculture workers protesting at Delhi’s borders are a throwback to 2020-21: long lines of about 1,000 trolleys attached to brightly-coloured tractors, large dekchis of sweet chai boiling on wood-fuelled stoves to serve hundreds, voices of peacefully organised dissent. In this time’s Delhi Chalo call, though, police ...

A look at the headlines right now:Farmer unions take out a victory march as year-long protests come to an end: Thousands of farmers on Saturday vacated the sites at Delhi’s Singhu and Ghazipur borders where they had built tent cities during a year-long agitation against the agricultural laws.Punjab moves ...

The Opposition parties on Monday closed ranks in accusing the Yogi Adityanath Government in Uttar Pradesh of ‘throttling democracy’ by preventing the Opposition leaders from visiting Lakhimpur Kheri in which eight people including four farmers were killed during a protest on Sunday.Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party ...

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 ...

At Bahadurgarh near one of the largest farmer protest sites on the Delhi border, a small group of women lay on charpoys in the afternoon sun in mid-February, listening to an article being read out to them. It was about young labour activist Nodeep Kaur, who has been in ...

A look at the headlines right now:Night-long tunnel operation under way to rescue 39 trapped inside after Uttarakhand glacier disaster: The Uttarakhand chief minister, who reached the site to review the rescue operation, said that a comprehensive analysis of the whole episode was being done. Meanwhile, experts said flash ...

2.16 pm: Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge accuses the Centre of lying about minimum support price, The Hindu reports. “You said you will double farmers income, in six years they have not given 50% above production cost to farmers,” Kharge says. The senior Congress leader adds: “They lie ...