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New Delhi: Farmers during their ongoing agitation over new farm reform laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021.
Attempts are being made to threaten farmer leaders through notices by agencies like the NIA, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday said. He also accused the Centre of being insincere in talks over the farm laws and said the government is only trying to tire out farmers .
âSimultaneously, it (Centre) is intimidating farmers by issuing notices to them through various agencies like the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Farmers are not anti-nationals. We condemn this,â said Badal.
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Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal, and other dignitaries during the ninth round of talks with farmer leaders over the new farm laws at Vigyan Bhawan on Friday.
The ninth round of talks between the government and protesting farmer unions ended without any major conclusion on Friday. The meeting which continued for over five hours failed to break the deadlock over the three farm laws. Both the sides will now meet again on January 19. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Railways, Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal and Minister of State for Commerce Som Parkash, who is an MP from Punjab, were present during the meeting with the representatives of around 40 farmer unions which was held at the Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.
Live Updates: 110 lakh doses of Covishield are being procured at Rs 200 per dose. (File)
New Delhi:
PM Modi will likely virtually interact with health workers at some locations on the day of the launch of the vaccine drive, sources said, adding select hospitals in states like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi have been asked to make preparations.
Health and frontline workers at Delhi s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital - one of the country s biggest Covid hospitals - will get vaccinated first. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and minister Satyendar Jain will attend the inaugural event.
The country s drug regulator has approved Covishield, the Oxford vaccine being manufactured by Serum Institute of India, and Bharat Biotech s homegrown Covaxin for restricted emergency use.
Farmers Protest in Delhi: Farmers have planned a massive tractor march on January 26.
New Delhi:
Hitting out at the centre over an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court against the farmers parade on Republic Day, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today referred to the deaths of those who have died after thousands started camping near Delhi s borders.
In its affidavit, the centre has underlined that Republic Day parade disruption will be an embarrassment to the nation . Amid deadlock over the three new agricultural laws, which have now been put on hold by the Supreme Court, the farmers have threatened to intensify their agitation by taking out a massive tractor rally in the heart of the national capital and other parts of the country.