Tag: Farmers

Source:-https://www.ndtv.com Dehradun/Chandigarh: Farmers protesting the central government’s agrarian reforms clashed with the police in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district on Friday, with dramatic footage showing the demonstrators running a tractor over a barricade as dozens of policemen try to hold them back.A video posted on Twitter by news agency ANI showed a large crowd of

Source:-https://www.ndtv.com New Delhi: The government today said farmers have no reason to worry over amendments to a law on electricity. Some farmers have raised concerns over any plan to change the existing system of power subsidy.“The fears of farmers about the Electricity (Amendment) Bill are unfounded. There is no provision or proposal to change the

Source:-https://www.freepressjournal.in Patna: Nityanand Rai, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs, on Sunday alleged that the forces supporting the farmers’ protest were working against the nation’s interests and sabotaging transportation of food materials meant for the armed forces stationed in hilly areas. Speaking at the kisan rallies at Patna and Vaishali, the Minister claimed

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com Farmers’ agitation against the three contentious farm laws entered day 23 on Friday and, as of now, impasse continues between the government and farmers’ unions. Amid the continued deadlock, prime minister Narendra Modi will on Friday virtually address the farmers of Madhya Pradesh in a ‘Kisan Kalyan Sammelan.’ The program will be telecast across

Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court stepped in on Wednesday to try and end the impasse between farmers’ unions and the Centre over the contentious new laws to open up trade in agriculture, observing that the protest will soon become a national issue and that recent events suggest government negotiations with the unions were “bound to fail

Source:-https://www.ndtv.com Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday sought the stand of the state government on a plea challenging its decision to exclude two important crops of the state from the ambit of procurement on the minimum support price mechanism.A Jodhpur bench of the High Court issued notices to the Centre and state governments at

Source:-https://indianexpress.com A group of farmers in Kutch, who are originally from Punjab and Haryana and have settled here, are embroiled in a legal battle with the Gujarat government over their agricultural land. The dispute dates back to 2010 when many farmers were told that records of their land were being frozen as they were not

Source:-https://pledgetimes.com In Delhi-NCR these days the haze has once again sparked debate about all kinds of pollution. In the midst of the day-to-day pollution taking place in the capital and surrounding areas, the process of stubble burning in Punjab is still going on and the farmers here are busy pouring water on the Delhi government’s

Source: dnaindia.com Unhappy with the verdict of the Gujarat High Court in the petitions challenging the acquisition of their land for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, the farmers and other similarly situated project affected persons on Thursday decided to approach the Supreme Court against the high court’s verdict. Notably, the division bench of Justice AS

Source:- newsclick.in New Delhi: The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday issued a strong order in one of the cases of non-payment of crores of rupees to apple growers of Shimla. The High Court said in its order that one Pradeep Chauhan — the “aarthi” (commission agents), has to deposit at least 50% of the over