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Saturday, December 13, 2025
TopicFarm laws

Topic: farm laws

PM Modi rebranding is due. He should begin with land acquisition and farm laws

PM Modi looks determined to follow up on his Red Fort speech on reforms, but he is still looking diffident when it concerns farmers.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?

Dhaka is replacing Bangabandhu with Jinnah. It’s slipping into denial mode

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

‘Take my words back,’ says Kangana after BJP miffed over her ‘farmers laws’ comments

The actor had said the three laws repealed by the Modi government after prolonged agitations should be brought back.

Haryana BJP distances itself from Kangana’s support of repealed farm laws. ‘She keeps saying things.’

Congress party construes her comment as an attempt by BJP to bring back controversial laws & says it will never happen however much Modi tries.

A ‘jai jawan, jai kisan’ trap awaits Modi. In a 5-year Test match with revived Opposition

Modi govt will need to address massive challenges without the total power it got used to, in the face of relentless electoral challenges, one after another.

Farmers’ protest has moved MSP debate from ‘why’ to ‘how’. Now we await final stage of ‘when’

There are many who stick to textbook economics and ask why MSP should exist. But the debate has moved on to concrete discussions on how MSP can be realised.

New criminal laws shouldn’t go the way of farm fiasco. Govt must resist political cartels

The government must establish a strong damage control mechanism to address criticism of withdrawing good legislations under pressure from politically motivated cartels.

Punjab-Haryana farmers mark 3rd anniversary of farm protest with sit-in. MSP, loan waiver on agenda

Raj Bhawan officials say governors of Punjab and Haryana have met representatives of the agitating farmers to accept their memorandum to the Centre.

On Camera

A shame-faced modesty pervades 1991 reforms. This is strange and inappropriate: Ashok Desai

Liberty is not accepted in India as the ultimate goal of political systems. This is why, for instance, there is so much paranoia about foreign investments, wrote economist Ashok V Desai in 1995.

Goa, Kerala lose sheen as more foreign tourists pick Maharashtra & Bengal, shows RBI data

RBI data shows 26 states and Union Territories couldn’t regain pre-pandemic foreign tourist footfalls in 2024, but domestic tourism surged 27 percent compared to 2019.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.