Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana members stopped the Chennai-Ahmedabad Navjeevan Express at Malkapur station in Buldhana district while protesting against the farm laws.
Badri Narayan Choudhary, general secretary of RSS affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, tells ThePrint they support the farmer agitation but will not be part of the Bharat Bandh tomorrow.
Statement is being seen as an attempt to drive a wedge between protesting farmers from Punjab and Haryana, because SYL Canal is a long-standing issue between the two states.
The petition filed Friday stated that commuters are facing hardships due to road blockades and has sought directions on social distancing at protest site to contain spread of Covid.
Reading the ‘Writings on the Wall’, Shekhar Gupta has foreseen Punjab’s angry revolt from its descent into complacent, lazy, decadent trance of perpetual balle-balle.
The farmers protesting at the national capital's borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh continued to swell at Ghazipur, prompting the police to close the Delhi-UP border on NH-24.
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.
Retired justices Mehtab Singh Gill, Ranjit Singh & Nawab Singh appeal to Modi govt to consider farmers’ demands with ‘open mind’, hit out at Haryana Police ‘brutality’.
Haryana’s JJP is having a hard time explaining its stance on farm laws. Deputy CM Dushyant has backed partner BJP, but other MLAs have sided with farmers.
Discriminatory laws limit firms from hiring willing women, and removing such barriers can help narrow the economic gap between developing and developed countries.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
A panel of experts moderated by ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta drew connections between insights of 1965 Indo-Pak War and strategic takeaways highlighted by Op Sindoor.
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?
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