Farmer Protest
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Farm laws are beneficial and are in favour of farmers, says Agriculture Minister NS Tomar
News | Jul 22, 2021, 12:20 PM ISTCountry has witnessed that these farm laws are beneficial & are in favour of farmers. We have had discussions about these laws. If they express their issues with the laws point-wise, we can discuss it: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
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Farmers Protest: Police take farmers inside a resort before escorting them to protest venue
News | Jul 22, 2021, 11:40 AM ISTAfter initial resistance, police took farmers inside a resort to count their numbers before escorting them to protest venue. Only 206 allowed each day as per conditions.
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Police on alert as farmers set to hold protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi
News | Jul 22, 2021, 11:00 AM ISTFarmers protesting against three Central farm laws since last November will today begin a Kisan Sansad at the national capital's Jantar Mantar. The agitation will be held in groups of 200 every day while Parliament is in session, they said.
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Farmers to hold 'Kisan Parliament' at Jantar Mantar
News | Jul 22, 2021, 06:44 AM ISTThe Delhi Police on Wednesday gave permission to farmers to stage demonstrations at Jantar Mantar demanding scrapping of the Agri laws during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament, official sources said. They said farmers will travel to Jantar Mantar from the Singhu border in buses with police escort.
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Delhi govt rejects city police’s panel of lawyers for cases related to farmers' protest
India | Jul 16, 2021, 01:56 PM ISTIt was decided that the Delhi government's lawyers will be public prosecutors in court matters related to the farmers' agitation.
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Muqabla | Is the Farmers Protest slowly becoming anarchic?
News | Jun 18, 2021, 06:25 PM ISTThe deceased, Mukesh, reportedly told his brother and a villager that he had been drinking with four men who claimed to be part of the farmers' protest and they set him on fire.
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Watch Haryana Minister Anil Vij on Man set ablaze at Tikri protest site
News | Jun 18, 2021, 03:27 PM ISTIn an exclusive conversation with IndiaTV, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij spoke on the death of a 42-year-old man who died of burn injuries after four men allegedly sprinkled some inflammable material on him and set him ablaze at Tikri protest site.
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Farmers hold protest against Punjab govt over power shortage
News | Jun 15, 2021, 06:09 PM ISTFarmers under the aegis of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee protested against Punjab government in Guruwali Village, Amritsar over power shortage issue during paddy sowing season.
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Muqabla | Opposition target Centre over farmers' protest
News | Jun 09, 2021, 07:09 PM ISTThe protest against new Farm Laws chugs on, despite media neglect, fears of pandemic outbreak and periodic threats from an intransigent government.
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Protesting farmers in Delhi to celebrate Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Diwas today
India | May 01, 2021, 08:22 AM ISTFarmers protesting against the Centre's three farm laws in the national capital, will be celebrating May 1st as Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Diwas.
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Rakesh Tikait gets vaccinated in hospital near protest site
India | Apr 13, 2021, 07:11 PM ISTBhartiya Kisaan Union Spokesperson and Leader Rakesh Tikait recently got his vaccination done at a hospital near the Delhi-UP border.
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Target of doubling farm income won't be achieved if new agri laws not implemented: Ramesh Chand
India | Mar 28, 2021, 02:01 PM ISTNiti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand on Sunday said the target of doubling farmers' income by 2022 will not be fulfilled if the three new farm laws are not implemented immediately.
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BJP MLA thrashed, clothes torn by protesting farmers in Punjab's Muktsar
India | Mar 28, 2021, 09:21 AM ISTA BJP MLA in Punjab was allegedly thrashed and his clothes torn by a group of farmers at Malout in Muktsar district on Saturday, police said
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Farmers' protest: Ghazipur border reopens for traffic movement
India | Mar 15, 2021, 09:54 AM ISTThe Ghazipur border (Delhi-UP border), which was closed due to farmers' protest, reopened for traffic movement on Monday.
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If this government remains, we will lose our land: Naresh Tikait
India | Feb 24, 2021, 08:24 AM ISTWhen Naresh Tikait, the national president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, reached the Ghazipur border to meet farmers agitating against the three farm laws on Tuesday, he was given a traditional welcome with drum beats.
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About 60,000 vehicles passed through Delhi before farm stir, traffic now halved
India | Feb 20, 2021, 08:07 AM ISTProtests have been continuing for nearly three months on Delhi's borders against the new farm laws.
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Rahul Gandhi to address 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' in Rajasthan today
India | Feb 12, 2021, 09:15 AM ISTCongress leader Rahul Gandhi will address 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' in Rajasthan on Friday over farmers' protest against Farm laws.
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After PM Modi's appeal, farmer leaders say ready for talks; want govt to choose date
India | Feb 09, 2021, 10:10 AM ISTFarmer unions agitating against the three agri laws on Monday asked the government to fix a date for the next round of talks, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged them to end their stir and invited them to resume the dialogue.
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Centre complicating issue, says Rakesh Tikait
India | Feb 09, 2021, 08:24 AM ISTIt has been over two months since the farmers have been protesting at Delhi's borders against the three farm laws enacted by the Centre.
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Farm union's legal cell writes to UN on farmers' illegal detention
India | Feb 09, 2021, 07:52 AM ISTThe Internet has been snapped at Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri protest sites to "maintain public safety and for averting public emergency".