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Saturday, September 13, 2025
TopicFarmer protests

Topic: Farmer protests

BJP stages sit-in at Punjab CM’s house after farmers ‘rough up, rip clothes off MLA’

The BJP protesters, some of whom took their shirts off, raised slogans against state's Congress govt, alleging failure of law and order.

Farmers gather near national highways, key roads in Punjab, Haryana on Bharat Bandh call

According to the Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, Bharat Bandh is being observed from 6am-6pm to mark 4 months of the farmers' agitation at Delhi's three borders — Singhu, Ghazipur & Tikri.

Rakesh Tikait asks farmers to ‘turn Bengaluru into Delhi’, lay siege with tractors

Tikait was speaking at a mahapanchayat in Karnataka's Shivamogga. He said until the farm laws are repealed, farmers will have to continue their agitation.

Why alarm bells are ringing in Punjab over Deep Sidhu and Lakha Sidhana’s growing support base

The two have emerged from the farmers’ agitations and are known to harbour extremist views. With the protests prolonging, police fear the duo are gaining a following in Punjab.

Greta Thunberg’s comments on farmers’ protests not bilateral issue with Sweden, says India

Last month, the MEA had said that some 'vested interest groups' were trying to enforce their agenda on the farmers' protests.

Why Dushyant Chautala will stick with BJP rather than appease Jat farmers, his core vote bank 

Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala has been under pressure to resign from within his party as well as protesting farmers. 

Khap panchayats — the role & history of complex social institution in Haryana & western UP 

Outside certain rural parts of Haryana and western UP, there hasn’t been much understanding about the complex khap system and khap panchayats.  

Out on bail, Dalit activist Nodeep Kaur accuses police of using caste slurs, torture

Activist Nodeep Kaur claims she was told that Dalits 'can't rise high in society' by police while in custody, alleges she was beaten up before being taken to the police station.

Chidambaram slams Centre for treating protesting farmers as ‘enemies’ of state

Criticising Centre over farmers protest, Chidambaram said that the reward to farm sector for growing at 3.9% in a recession year is to treat protesting farmers as enemies of state.

How Nodeep Kaur rose from an activist Left, Dalit Punjab family to a cause herself in jail

Nodeep comes from a family of vocal women activists associated with Left groups. She joined Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan soon after she got a job at a bulb factory in Kundli.

On Camera

Charlie Kirk’s killing has America at war with itself. Foreigners & visa-seekers ‘warned’

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, gunned down this week, was no ordinary influencer. He helped bring the Trump administration to power. His death has deepened America’s Left-Right divide.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

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.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.