scorecardresearch
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
TopicFarmer protests

Topic: Farmer protests

Punjab Congress LoP protests against removal of farmers, hopes to meet governor today

Punjab police had cleared the Punjab-Haryana Khanauri Border and Shambhu Border and removed the temporary structures erected by the protesting farmers.

Farmer leader Pandher appeals to people of Punjab to join ‘Rail Roko’ on Dec 18

A tractor march will also be organised Monday, the leader says. The announcement came after a group of 101 farmers, blocked by police at Shambhu border, was withdrawn for the day.

Farmer’s death during protest against BJP candidate Preneet Kaur sparks row in Punjab

Bhartiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal alleges 60-year-old Surinder Singh died after BJP workers pushed him. BJP rebuts allegations, says he collapsed on his own.

BJP Kisan Morcha to hold ‘awareness campaign’ on govt policies, says its chief amid farmer protests

Kisan Morcha chief Rajkumar Chahar calls ongoing farmer protests ‘political in nature’, asks why such protests ‘start only from Punjab’.

Wave of farmer protests to rise of Far Right — challenges Macron faces back home as he visits India

A high-voltage December saw split in French President’s party during vote on an immigration law. He had to replace his PM and has indicated right-ward tilt to regain political momentum.

SKM facing factionalism, rebellions in unions. What it means for farmers’ movement

The Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Dakaunda) is currently facing an internal rebellion. But SKM, the farmer coalition which includes the outfit, says it won’t affect the larger cause.    

Protests over, 32 farmer unions of Punjab begin to split on whether to take political plunge

The 32 farmer unions that spearheaded anti-farm laws agitation in Punjab were to gather at Golden Temple, but many prominent ones decided to give it a miss.

Gen. Rawat’s chopper crash, Nagaland killings, farm protests: Page 1 news from Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

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.

Cracks appear in Samyukt Kisan Morcha as some unions make ‘political moves’ ahead of Punjab 2022

Farm leaders like Gurnam Singh Chaduni say agitations and political activities can go hand in hand, but other Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) say politicking farmers will be shown “black flags”.

On Camera

No other city is like Gurugram—’so mismanaged, yet so highly spoken of’

Gurugram has a problem of structural abandonment, whether you’re a domestic worker speaking an alien language, or the much-celebrated CEO of the new hot startup.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.