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Sunday, July 20, 2025
TopicFarm laws

Topic: farm laws

Lesson from year-long protest: No govt, not even Modi-led BJP, can afford to annoy farmers

From the siege of Red Fort to ‘toolkits’, pizza langar to foot massage – the farmers’ year-long protest was like no other in India.

Who are farmers thanking as they prepare to go home, and a surprise in Justice Gogoi’s book

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Farmers end protests at Delhi borders, will return to their homes on 11 December

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh had been protesting against the three laws at the national capital's borders since November last year.

SubscriberWrites: Farm laws were a failure of the public policy process. The govt forgot a vital step

After a problem has been identified by govt, for which a public policy has to be made, a typical policy process from beginning to execution could be broken down into 9 logical steps.

No dearth of laughs in India, and a bill to repeal parliamentary debate

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Repealing farm laws without debate shows govt ‘terrified’ of discussion, says Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi said his party predicted the govt will have to take back the farm laws as the power of 'three-four crony capitalists cannot withstand the strength of farmers and labourers'.

Parliament passes bill to repeal farm laws without discussion amid protests by Congress, TMC

Introducing the bill in Rajya Sabha, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar regretted that Modi govt couldn't convince the agitating farmers about the laws' benefits.

SubscriberWrites: Farm laws repeal is a setback to India’s agricultural economy

The unfortunate part of this repeal is that India's agriculture is now condemned to be controlled and profited byaffluent farmers, dealers and middlemen, writes Mubiyana Koirala.

MoS Ajay Mishra should’ve been sacked right after Lakhimpur speech, says Satya Pal Malik

In an interview to ThePrint, Meghalaya governor talks about Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the impact of Modi govt's decision to repeal farm laws, and scrapping of Article 370.

Samyukt Kisan Morcha suspends tractor march to Parliament slated for 29 Nov

Farmer unions’ body says it has written to PM Modi asking to withdraw cases against farmers and suspend MoS Ajay Mishra. Reply is awaited and SKM will meet again on 4 December.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.