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Group of volunteers provide food to protesting farmers at Singhu border
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): A group of over 20 volunteers is providing food to the agitating farmers at the Singhu border as they continued their protest at the borders of Delhi against farm laws amid the cold weather conditions.
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Urdu Bulletin: Farmers' agitation, JDU chief's appointment used prominentl
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Various Urdu publications on Monday highlighted the continued farmers' protests, and prominently used the banging of utensils by protestors against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio programme Mann ki Baat on Sunday.
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Amid cold wave, farmers protest enters 32nd day
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Amid the prevailing deadlock between farmers and the Central government over the new farm laws, the agitation of farmers entered the 32nd day on Monday.
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Some farmers start sowing onions at protest venue in Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Several farmers from Punjab who are protesting against the recently enacted central farm laws are keeping themselves engaged by sowing onion crops at the Burari ground here with protests now stretching for a month now.
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Talks on December 29 will resolve issues only if done with farmers perspec
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Minister of State (MoS) Agriculture Kailash Choudhary has said that talks scheduled on December 29 will resolve issues if they are conducted from farmers' perspective, and not from the perspective of politicians who are politicising the issue.
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MSP will continue, no one can take away land from farmers: Rajnath Singh
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday assured that farmers that the minimum support price (MSP) for their agricultural produce and mandis will continue and asserted that no one can take away land from farmers.
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Rahul Gandhi's 2015 speech on Amethi Food Park circulates on social media,
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told the Lok Sabha in 2015 that the farmers should be allowed to sell their produce directly to the companies, contradicting his current stand on the new farm laws where he has been sternly slamming the Centre to revoke the "
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Protesting farmers use Nirankari Samagam ground in Burari to grow crops
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Farmers who are protesting against the new farm laws, are using Nirankari Samagam ground in Burari to grow crops.
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait receives death threat over phone
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait who has been participating in the agitation against the farm laws alleged that he has received a death threat over the phone.
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Farmer unions ask centre to resume talks on agri laws on Dec 29
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27(ANI): The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a joint front of almost 40 farmer organisations, wrote a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare accepting the Centre's offer for dialogue and proposed December 29 as the next date for the meeting.
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Farm laws are in interest of farmers: Dharmendra Pradhan
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Dhenkanal (Odisha) [India], December 27 (ANI): Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that the new farm laws brought by the BJP-led government are in the interest of farmers.
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Digvijaya Singh asks Congress members to 'Wake up' and join farmers' prote
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 26 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday asked his party members to "wake up" and join the farmers' protests and raise their voice against the new farm laws.
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