UPDATED: January 27, 2021 00:08 IST
Farmers remove police barricades set up near Red Fort during their tractor rally on Tuesday (Source: PTI)
What started as a peaceful demonstration on November 26 last year, when thousands of farmers gathered at the capital s doorstep protesting against the three contentious farm laws,
So far, eleven rounds of talks between the government and farmer unions have failed to break the impasse although Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar has offered a proposal to keep the laws under suspension for 1-1.5 years. The farmers, on the other hand, have demanded a complete repeal of the three black laws and legal guarantee of the government for minimum support price (MSP) of their crops.
Explained: What farmers want and why they are protesting
Protesting farmer march to the capital on the Republic Day
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Thousands of farmers have been camping at several Delhi border points since 26 November
On 11 January, the SC stayed the implementation of new farm laws till further orders and decided to set up a 4-member committee to resolve the impasse between the Centre and farmers unions protesting
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The farmers protesting against the three farm laws, clashed with police at several places in the national capital on Tuesday. The Delhi Police had earlier permitted the farmers to hold their tractor parade on selected routes on the Republic Day. The chaos erupted when the farmers broke through the police barricades in the capital. A protesting farmer died after his tractor overturned at ITO during the farmers’ tractor parade on Tuesday, police said.
Global agricultural research network CGIAR joins forces with World Food Programme to tackle post-pandemic hunger
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26 Jan 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid the pandemic recovery, the climate crisis and the threat of instability.
January 26, Montpellier, FRANCE The world s largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, CGIAR, has united effort with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help tackle hunger and malnutrition in the pandemic recovery.
CGIAR and WFP, winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to continue their long-standing partnership to build resilience and promote sustainable agriculture.
CJI Bobde Was Once Closely Associated With Farmers Group Whose Head is Now in SC Committee
Anil Ghanawat joined the Shetkari Sanghatana after Bobde, as a Nagpur lawyer, stopped representing the group but veterans from the time question his inclusion in the farm laws committee appointed by the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde. Photo: PTI
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Nagpur: Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde used to have a close relationship with the Shetkari Sanghatana, a farmersâ group whose current president Anil Ghanawat is on the Supreme Court-appointed committee to mediate between the government and farmers protesting against three new farm laws. Tens of thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping on the borders outside Delhi in protest for several weeks now, insisting that the government repeal the laws.
Kolkata, Jan 20: At a rally led by BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari in Chandannagar city, the provocative "goli maaro.." slogan was raised on Wednesday. The slogan "desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maaro…" (shoot the traitors) was raised by a few BJP cadres, carrying the party flag along with the Indian Tricolour while they were trailing a truck carrying Adhikari and Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee in the Rathtala area of the city.