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Traffic on Delhi borders continues to remain affected as farmers' protest
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): Commuters in the national capital region continued to suffer as multiple borders between Delhi and neighbouring states remained closed with the ongoing farmers' agitation entering the ninth day on Friday.
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Locals distribute tea to protesting farmers at Singhu border
Updated : 5 years, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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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Kangana Ranaut: 'I am with farmers' after tweet war on farmers protest
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 4 (ANI): Actor Kangana Ranaut has got herself mired in yet another controversy after she said that an elderly woman, who was seen protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh in the national capital in December-March, was see
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DSGMC member sends legal notice to Kangana Ranaut for tweet on farmers' pr
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): A legal notice has been sent to Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut by a member of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), Jasmain Singh Noni for her tweet, which she subsequently deleted, in which she "wrongly" identified an old woman at farm
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury writes to Lok Sabha Speaker, seeks short winter ses
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), December 3 (ANI): Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for convening a short winter session of parliament to discuss pressing issues including farmers protest, preparation of COVID-19 vaccine and standoff along LAC in easte
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Government has talked of amendments, we want repeal of farm laws, say farm
Updated : 5 years, 7 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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NCP Chief Sharad Pawar targets Centre for farmer protests
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 3 (ANI): While addressing an event in Mumbai to mark the first anniversary of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief, Sharad Pawar targeted the central government and blamed it for the ongoing farmer protest.
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MSP will continue, government will consider demand for registration of tra
Updated : 5 years, 7 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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PM Modi should address farmers' concerns: Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 3 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic) chief and Rajya Sabha member Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, on Thursday announced that he will be returning the Padma Bhushan conferred on him in 2019 in solidarity with protesting farmers said that he hoped that Prime M
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MSP will not be touched, Tomar assures farmer leaders
Updated : 5 years, 7 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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