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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicFarmers protests

Topic: farmers protests

SUV that crushed Lakhimpur Kheri farmers not in Ajay Mishra affidavit, SP slams EC’s ‘double standards’

Lucknow: While his son is on trial for the 2021 incident of a Mahindra Thar SUV running over four farmers and a journalist in Lakhimpur...

Week after farmer’s death, no FIR or inquest. Punjab & Haryana Police look the other way

Shubhkaran Singh was allegedly killed in a police firing on 21 February. It’s now learnt that Punjab Police may have no jurisdiction over the case. 

Farmers and Modi govt have reached ‘point of no return’. Violence has made the protest worse

Around the world, farmer protests are being dismissed as a new form of ‘culture war by far-right political groups.’ Modi govt should avoid the buildup of such narratives in India.

‘We will withhold, but we disagree’: X on govt’s order to block accounts linked to farmers’ protest

The social media platform said that a writ appeal challenging govt’s blocking orders remains pending and called for making the order public to enhance transparency.

21-yr-old Punjab farmer died in police action, claim Congress & SAD; Haryana police deny

Haryana police, however, says it has no such information yet about death of a farmer during the confrontation earlier Wednesday at Khanauri between cops and agitating farmers.

Govt invites farmers for 5th round of talks, ‘ready to discuss all issues’, says minister

Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda, one among the team of Union ministers holding talks with farmer leaders, says farmers yet to respond to invite.

Tear gas fired at Shambhu border as farmers resume march, Centre makes fresh call for talks

Monday, the farmers’ groups had rejected the government’s previous proposal for five-year contracts and guaranteed support prices for produce such as corn, cotton and pulses.

Union ministers ‘tricked us’, say farmer leaders, lash out at Punjab CM Mann as well

Protest leaders say ministers told them offer of legal guarantee of MSP for 5 crops was for all farmers but it later emerged that it was only for those who shifted from paddy cultivation.

Why is India’s Left backing farmers’ protests? It’s a kulak agitation

This unique ability to ally with anybody purely in order to destroy is in some respects the fundamental tenet of Bolshevik morality.

Farmer leaders reject Centre’s proposal on MSP, march towards Delhi to resume on 21 February

The farmers said that the Centre's plan to buy maize, pulses and cotton crops on MSP for five years in unlimited quantity was 'not in favour' of the farmers.

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Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘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.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.