The power situation has turned grim in Punjab with thermal plants nearly running out of coal stock, with movement of coal rakes suspended for about a month —first because farmers protesting agai...

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Members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Sunday held protests against the Centre’s new farm laws at various places in Haryana and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At Shahbad...

Farmers’ organisations from Punjab, who had gone to Delhi on Wednesday after the Centre invited them for talks to address their concerns over the new farm laws, walked out of the meeting when th...

At a time when I see euphoria among mainstream economists over the new set of agricultural reforms, media reports say that the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices has observed that only 12 pe...

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Mihir Sarkar, 51 Place: Chapduar, Subhashganj, North Dinajpur Land: 1.5 acres Cultivates: Paddy and vegetables Annual income: Rs 2 lakh Why he opposes the farm bills: There is a huge uncertainty ...

Karnataka protests Meanwhile, farmer organisations backed by a number of other social and political outfits on Monday staged protests across Karnataka against amendments to the Karnataka Land Reforms...

About 400 members of the Sikh community in Calcutta marched in protest on Sunday morning against the Centre’s farm bills, saying those would ruin the livelihoods of over eighty per cent farmers ...

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