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PM Modi releases Rs 18,000 cr to farmers under PM-KISAN
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday released Rs 18,000 crores as the next instalment under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to over 9 crore farmers.
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Dialogue only solution, ready to clear doubts of protesting farmers: Anura
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday said that the government is ready to talk and clear doubts of the farmers who are protesting against Central farm laws and asserted that a solution can be found only through dialogue.
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Punjab farmers protesting against Central agri laws shut power supply to J
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Mansa (Punjab) [India], December 25 (ANI): Farmers protesting against the three farm laws in Punjab's Mansa have shut the power supply to several Reliance Jio towers here, disrupting the telecom giant's services in parts of the state.
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Shah to listen PM Modi's address to farmers at gaushala temple in Delhi's
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be present at Gaushala temple in Kishangarh village, Mehrauli, South West Delhi at 11 am to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's virtual address to farmers today.
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Khalsa Aid sets up Kisan Mall at Delhi's Tikri border for protesting farme
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 25 (ANI): The international NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) Khalsa Aid has been set up Kisan Mall at Tikri border to provide items of daily use for free of cost to protesting farmers.
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Dissenters fully participate in Congress protest march on farm laws as the
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): Even as they continue to press for issues raised by them, the leaders who wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in August for sweeping reforms in the party, fully participated in the programme today over demand for the repeal of three farm
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Makeshift stalls to cater women-specific needs set up at Singhu border
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): To cater to the basic need of women, a makeshift stall has been built at the Singhu border where farmers including women are protesting against the new farm laws imposed by the Centre.
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Paddy procurement shows increase of 23.67 pc over last year
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare announced on Thursday that paddy procurement for Kharif 2020-21 session showed an increase of 23.67 per cent with purchase of over 436.20 lakh metric tonnes of paddy up to December 23, 2020 against 352.70 L
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PM must stop baseless accusations, repeal farm laws: 11 opposition parties
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): As many as 11 opposition parties, in a joint statement on Thursday, demanded that the central government should repeal the new farm Acts and stop "baseless accusations" against them, even as farmers continued to protest against the Centre's recently e
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Farmer union from Baghpat meets Tomar, says new farm laws should not be re
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): Members of Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, a farmer union from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday met Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and gave a letter in support of farm laws.
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PM Modi to interact with farmers on Dec 25, union ministers to be present
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): In a reach out over the government's efforts for the farm sector, several central ministers, MPs, MLAs and BJP office bearers will be present among the electorate to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction with farmers on the birth annive
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Farmers' protest: If laws were changed by blocking roads, country would go
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): As the farmers have decided to continue their protest until the government repeals three agricultural laws, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tarkishore Prasad said that if laws were changed by blocking roads, the country would go into a "mode of anarchy".
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