The names of hundreds of farmers, who died being part of the protest against the farm laws, were read out aloud at a meeting in south Kolkata to mark the first anniversary of the movement.
“The...
Over the past year, Bengal has lent active support to the farmers’ movement at the gates of Delhi and amid the jubilation on Friday at the promise of a repeal of the contentious farm laws, many ...
Hindol Mazumdar, a research scholar at JU who participated in the tour, said the fight by the farmers has encouraged them to resume the protest against the citizenship matrix.
“There is no alte...
The Delhi Police has removed the blockade put up by it on one of the carriageways of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, a site of the anti-farm laws protest at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border whe...
The Supreme Court on Thursday said farmers have a right to protest but cannot be allowed to block roads as other citizens have a right to unhindered passage on public roads.
“The law is clear. ...
The five men were returning from a farmers’ protest on October 3 when they were mowed down by a convoy of cars led by a Thar jeep belonging to local MP and Union minister of state for home Ajay ...
Farmers backed by the Left parties held candlelight marches in Jharkhand and lit candles at their homes in memory of the martyred soldiers and the farmers killed in recent violence.
“It was an ...
The Supreme Court has decided to hear on Thursday the Lakhimpur Kheri case of Uttar Pradesh in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed as violence erupted during a farmers' protest...
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday warned the BJP that it will have to pay a heavy price for the Lakhimpur Kheri incident and asserted that the entire Opposition is with the farmers.
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The response to the bandh call in Punjab and Haryana was near-complete, with traders downing shutters in solidarity with the farmers, who used their tractors to block roads and highways. Only emergenc...