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"BJP govt killing farmers with impunity": West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party over its "handling of farmers protests", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that after making false promises to the farmers for the past 10 years, Centre has started killing them with impunity.
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Tripura farmers protest in Agartala against tear gas shelling, caning at b
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The Sanyukta Kisan Morcha and the Tripura unit of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on Friday called for protests in the state against the alleged security crackdown on agitating farmers amid their protests at various border points in the country.
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Mayawati urges government to address farmers' demands amid ongoing protest
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
As the farmers' protests continue, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday urged the government to take the demands of the farmers seriously and to consider them with empathy.
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CJI takes note of traffic issues, says SC will accommodate if lawyers face
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Tuesday that the bench will accommodate lawyers if they are facing problems due to road congestion as Delhi faced traffic jams due to farmers' protests
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Farmers to hold rallies for foreign debt write-off in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Farmers in Pakistan will hold protests in a number of towns in the South Asian nation, urging international lenders to cancel loans to Pakistan and other developing nations and compensate Pakistan for economic losses brought on by climate change, according to Dawn.
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Govt of India must have made such attempts: Rakesh Tikait on Dorsey's "pre
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"We had information that the kind of reach on Facebook and Twitter that was expected on farmers' protest, was not coming. They used to try to stop it at their level. The Head (former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey) has said this clearly now. But such companies don't come under anyone's pressu
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Utter lies, blasphemous, little too rich, little too late: Entrepreneur Su
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"What Jack Dorsey has said to a television channel in the United States is nothing short of utter lies, blasphemous, and a little too rich, a little too late. Twitter must understand that it is not a sovereign nation," Entrepreneur Suhel Seth said in a video message to ANI.
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Samyukt Kisan Morcha hold 'rail roko' stir across Punjab over MSP issue
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], July 31 (ANI): Farmers across Punjab are holding a four-hour 'rail roko' protest from 11 am to 3 pm on Sunday in response to a call given for a nationwide protest by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha(SKM), an umbrella group comprising around 40 farm organisations, primar
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Centre asking Telangana to impose electricity bills on farmers, will die b
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 22 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday hit out at the Centre on the issue of farmers alleging that it asked the state government to impose electricity bills on farmers who are being given free electricity in the state.
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Farm distress rising in Pakistan due to tax policies to gain IMF loan
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 17 (ANI): Farm distress is on the rise in Pakistan with various groups staging protests in multiple cities as the Imran Khan government has withdrawn all tax exemptions and imposed fresh taxes to fulfill International Monetary Fund's demand to receive the loan,
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Farmers in Pakistan take to streets as perennial crisis widens
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Narowal, [Pakistan], February 10 (ANI): Farmers in Pakistan took to the streets on Wednesday and blocked the road over the perennial crisis of unavailability of urea, reported local media.
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As Imran govt imposes taxes on agriculture sector, farmers in Pakistan to
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], February 8 (ANI): Farmers in Pakistan have announced to take to streets next week as the Imran Khan government imposed taxes on the agriculture sector, rising prices of fertilisers and other farm inputs, reported local media.
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