Ram Iqbal Singh also urged Modi govt to enact a law guaranteeing MSP to farmers, adding that denial of MSP to farmers for their produce should be made a cognisable offence.
PM Modi paid floral tributes to former PM Vajpayee on his birth anniversary. As Modi was leaving the venue, AAP's Sanjay Singh & Mann raised slogans, demanding repeal farm laws.
Farmer leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said that a meeting of farmer leaders from across India would be held Wednesday where a decision on the govt's talks offer will be taken.
Joined by Congress and Left parties, the RJD leader extended support to the nationwide strike called by the farmers organisations on 8 December against the new farm laws
The Modi govt claims the three new laws are re-creating the 1991 moment for agriculture. But those reforms were premised on decentralisation and deregulation.
The consequence of the Modi govt skipping steps of a deliberative democracy is that the farm bill’s policy argument plays out in emotions instead of economics.
This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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