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Read more about Farm laws designed to destroy agri, repealing them only solution: Rahul on Business Standard. He said the chats on the Pulwama attack in which the journalist said that "this is good for us" is distressing and an "anti-national"

New Delhi, January 18 Noting that its intervention to resolve the deadlock over farmers protests against farms laws has been misunderstood, the Supreme Court on Monday said it was for the Delhi Police to take a call if farmers should be allowed to enter the national capital with their tractor rally.  "Our intervention has been strongly misunderstood...Who will come in the city and who will be allowed will not be seen by us," a Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde told the Centre while hearing a plea f...

Farm Ordinances Passed Without NITI Aayog Appraising High-Powered CMs Panel Report: RTI Minister of State for Food Danve Raosaheb Dadarao had stated before Lok Sabha that the high-powered committee had approved the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, a claim denied by the Punjab CM. Farmers at the Singhu border, Saturday, January 16, 2021. Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma Government17/Jan/2021 New Delhi: The Farm ordinances – which consequently paved the way for the three controversial farm laws...

Satya Prakash Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 15 The Supreme Court’s four-member committee on farmers’ agitation appears to be in limbo after the lone farmers’ representat

Ninth Round of Centre-Farmer Talks Ends in Deadlock Again The unions, while agreeing that they too wanted the impasse to end, reiterated that the government’s proposal was nothing new. Bharatiya Kisan Unon (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikiat leaves after the ninth round of talks with the government over the new farm laws, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Friday, January 15, 2021. Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma Government15/Jan/2021 New Delhi: Days after the Supreme Court attempted to broker a truce bet...

Farmer organizations to observe Women Farmer’s day on January 18 By Fatima Hasan|   Published: 15th January 2021 7:20 pm IST New Delhi: Women belonging to Muslim community from Punjabs Malerkotla join farmers protest against Centres farm reform laws at Tikri border, in New Delhi, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (PTI Photo) Several women farmer organizations’ in the country have joined hands with Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) in its national call of Mahila Kisan Divas (women farmers day) a...

No headway in Centre-farmers dialogue January 15, 2021 Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal address the media after meeting with the farmers’ leaders in New Delhi on Friday   -  Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Piyush Goyal address the media after meeting with the farmers’...

January 15, 2021 Says Modi is working ‘for the people, and for the farmers’ BJP chief JP Nadda on Thursday lashed out at the Opposition for criticising the farm laws, saying they did not have the political will and courage to take decisions. However, it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi who takes decisions and has brought laws in favour of the farmers. The Opposition parties, in their election manifestos, said that reforms would be brought in, the APMC needed change, the age-old Essential Co...

The government on Friday asked protesting farmers to form an informal group to prepare a concrete proposal about their objections and suggestions on the three farm laws for further discussion at their next meeting on January 19 to end the long-running protest at various Delhi borders, but unions stuck to their main demand of a complete repeal of the three Acts. As nearly five hours of talks between 41 unions and three central ministers did not reach a decisive stage in the ninth round of talk...

: Friday, January 15, 2021, 2:30 AM IST First, laws enacted without farmers consent, now panel set up without their consent, writes Olav Albuquerque Allegations that the microphones of opposition MPs were muted when the farm laws were passed have also been levelled against the Government. Whether true or false, what is a fact is these three farm laws were not referred to either a standing committee or a select committee in either the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha before getting Presidential assent ...