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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicFarmers agitation

Topic: farmers agitation

At Singhu border, iron rods put between barriers, makeshift wall built to restrict protesters

The move comes days after the violent clashes between some protesters and police on 26 January during the tractor parade by the agitating farmers.

SAD to deploy workers at Singhu, Tikri, says NDA govt ‘stooping low’ to fail farmers’ protest

SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia demands filing of criminal cases against Delhi Police personnel and BJP ‘goons’, who attacked farmers in Singhu Friday.

PM says offer to farmers stands, opposition questions handling of protests at all-party meet

Parties such as Congress, TMC, Shiv Sena want discussion on farm laws in Budget Session. Chirag Paswan's LJP and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party didn’t attend the meeting.

As Rakesh Tikait dominates farmer protests, a look at the Jat community’s rise and fall 

In episode 672 of #CuttheClutter, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta says that Jats in the states that they have resided in, have always ‘punched above their weight’ in electoral politics.

Hoisting Khalsa flag ‘not a crime’ — Akal Takht head says farmer leaders must ensure peace

Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh advises farmers to continue to talk to govt & instead of indulging in blame game, efforts should be made to retain peace.

BJP MLAs, workers masqueraded as farmers & indulged in vandalism, alleges Rakesh Tikait

Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Tikait said that two BJP MLAs came along with 400 people to malign the image of farmers on 26 January.

Centre deploys additional paramilitary forces in Delhi after violence during farmers’ rally

Rapid Action Force personnel have also been repositioned as protesting farmers on tractors barrelled through police barricades to enter central Delhi areas.

Samyukta Kisan Morcha disassociates from violent protesters, blames ‘anti-social elements’

The union thanked farmers for their unprecedented participation, but said it regretted the 'undesirable and unacceptable' events that turned the tractor rally violent.

Hoisting any religion’s flag on Red Fort is anarchy. This isn’t the 18th Century

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Mumbai Police stop protesting farmers from marching towards Raj Bhavan

The All India Kisan Sabha's Maharashtra unit Sunday said the protesters will march to the Raj Bhavan and submit a memorandum to Governor B.S. Koshyari over their various demands.

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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.