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Locals distribute tea to protesting farmers at Singhu border
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): Locals distributed tea to protesting farmers stationed at the Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border), on Friday night.
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Not just farmers, whoever commits suicide is coward, clarifies K'taka Min
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kodagu (Karnataka) [India], December 4 (ANI): I had said that whoever commits suicide is a coward, never said farmers are cowards, they are the nation's backbone, clarified Karnataka Agriculture Minister, BC Patil on Thursday.
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Speculations about closure of Mandis, Support Price System misleading: Shi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 4 (ANI): Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the speculations about the closure of mandis and support price system are misleading and untrue and farmers should not pay attention to such speculations.
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Government has talked of amendments, we want repeal of farm laws, say farm
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3(ANI): The government has talked of some amendments to farm laws, farmer leaders said on Thursday as they continued to press for their demand for repeal of the laws.
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MSP will continue, government will consider demand for registration of tra
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday reached out to protesting farmers over their demands, saying MSP will not be touched, the government was open to their suggestions for parity between mandis under APMC Act and those outside, f
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MSP will not be touched, Tomar assures farmer leaders
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday told the farmer representatives during their meeting here that the minimum support price (MSP) "will not be touched and no changes will be made to it", official sources said.
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Farmers seek special Parliament session, abolition of farm laws at Vigyan
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): In the fourth round of meeting held with the Centre here at the Vigyan Bhawan on Thursday, farmer leaders suggested the government to hold a special session of the Parliament and sought abolition of the three farm laws.
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Nihang Sikhs reach Singhu border in support of farmers protesting 'black l
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): Nihang Sikhs on Thursday reached the Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border) to express solidarity with the farmers protesting against the newly enacted farm laws.
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Punjab's local Kabaddi team joins farmer protest at Delhi's Singhu border
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): A local kabaddi team from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab on Thursday reached Singhu at the Delhi-Haryana border to join in the farmers protest.
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Centre should suspend 'controversial' farm laws, says former Union Ministe
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): The central government should suspend the three 'controversial' farm laws and respect the sentiments of the community for whose benefit the laws are stated to have been passed, senior Congress leader and former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said on Thursd
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Amarinder Singh passed similar farm laws 3 years ago: Sukhbir Badal
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 3 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, three years ago, passed the same farm laws in the state Assembly that the union government promulgated recently, said Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday.
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Farmers have 'langar' at Vigyan Bhawan meet, refuse govt's offer of food,
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): Farmer leaders refused to accept tea or food offered by the government during the fourth round of talks with the Centre at Vigyan Bhawan on Thursday, amid the ongoing protest to repeal the new agricultural laws.
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