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Odisha sets target to achieve 60 pc crop diversification in mega lift poin
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], April 29 (ANI): In a step towards enhancing the cash return to the farmers and creation of subsidiary employment opportunities in the agricultural sector, the Odisha government on Wednesday started initiative of crop diversification in mega lift point ( MILP) ay
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Delhi CM has failed to stop city roads being dug up, barricaded: Amarinder
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh [India], February 3 (ANI): A day after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) walked out of all-party meeting, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said the people of Punjab should not expect anything better from a party whose chief "was on record touting the farm laws as the mos
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India's labour, agricultural reforms can spur medium-term growth: Fitch
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, January 20 (ANI): India's reform agenda may help to support medium-term growth and partially offset downside pressures to investment from renewed asset-quality challenges in the financial sector and damaged corporate balance sheets, Fitch Ratings said on Wednesday.
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MSP in threat as agricultural sector will be privatised under farm laws, s
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
BHOPAL (Madhya Pradesh) [India], January 7 (ANI): Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday said that the central government will privatise the agricultural sector with the help of these farm laws and farmers will not be able to get Minimum Support Prize (MSP) for their pr
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Farm unions will actively arrive at solution after discussion, says Tomar
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said those farmer unions, which are protesting against the farm laws, will understand the idea behind bringing laws for reforms in the agricultural sector and actively arrive at a solution after
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If you want credit, take it and withdraw the farm laws: Yechury to PM
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): After Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested the opposition political parties with "folded hands" to keep all the credit for the agricultural sector reforms on Friday, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury slammed the "mann
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"BJP is real tukde-tukde gang, destroying national unity", says Sukhbir Ba
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday lashed out at his former ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the farmers' protest against the three agricultural sector laws.
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Farm reforms to provide new markets to farmers, bring investments in agric
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 12 (ANI): In a bid to allay farmers' fears over the farm laws as they continue with their protests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the farm reforms will help bring down barriers between agricultural and associated sectors, creating new marke
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Farmers protest: 3,500 police personnel to be deployed at 5 Delhi-Haryana
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Faridabad (Haryana) [India], December 12 (ANI): With farmers gearing up to block the highway and picket toll plazas on the border to Delhi on Saturday in response to a call from protesting farmer unions to intensify their agitation against the three agricultural sector laws, police personnel
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3EA funded Gujarat based agricultural start-up HirenBhai.com
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 9 (ANI/NewsVoir): With the reforms in the agricultural sector and introduction of Farmers Act 2020, Government of India has boosted the overall growth of the sector by building infrastructure and supply chains for farm produce in national and global mar
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140 PAC companies deployed to thwart violence during Bharat Bandh in UP: A
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 8 (ANI): Prashant Kumar, Additional Director General (ADG) of Law and Order in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday said that 140 companies of Pradeshik Armed Constabulary (PAC) have been deployed along with civil forces in the state to thwart any instances of v
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Agitating farmers call for 'Bharat Bandh' today
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): Farmers protesting against the Centre's agricultural sector laws have called a "Bharat Bandh" today after several rounds of talks with the government over the new farm laws remained inconclusive.
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