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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicFarmers protests

Topic: farmers protests

Farmers fear bandh will hit ration supply as more protesters join from Punjab, Haryana

Farmers said many more protesters are coming on bicycles and carts which will hit their ration supply but they have enough stacked up for another 2-3 months.

Teflon Modi does not have one Achilles heel, but two

In the past six years, Modi has taken a series of controversial decisions not caring for tremendous opposition. But two opponents made him blink.

32-year-old farmer found dead at Delhi’s Tikri border amid protest

The farmer has been identified as Ajay Moor, a resident of Sonipat's Gohana area, who had been sleeping in an open park and was found dead Tuesday morning.

Bharat Bandh brings regions to standstill as Bengal, Maharashtra & Telangana support farmers

Punjab & Haryana shutdown, while in states such as Assam and J&K UT, students, farmer & trader unions as well as political parties observe some form of protest.

Congress, Left supporters block roads, railway tracks in Bengal to back Bharat Bandh

Certain parts of north Bengal, where the BJP has called a 12-hour shutdown over the death of its supporter during a rally Monday, wore a deserted look.

AAP alleges Arvind Kejriwal put under house arrest, Delhi Police says no such order

AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said Delhi Police barricaded Kejriwal's residence from all sides, putting him in a 'house-arrest like situation' at the behest of home ministry.

Bharat Bandh — India’s slide into constitutional grey zone where politics decides right or wrong

No side is playing by the Constitution in letter and spirit, and India is hurtling into a grey zone where rule of law is no longer the yardstick for anything.

Protesters block 3 highways in Gujarat as part of Bharat Bandh, place burning tyres on roads

The state government has imposed section 144 of the CrPC, which bans assembly of more than four persons, in view of the Bharat Bandh.

Pro-farm laws group in Maharashtra plans front of similar bodies to seek more such amendments

Shetkari Sanghatana, a farmers’ group in Maharashtra, has supported the three contentious farm laws and had earlier taken to the streets in celebration.

Sardesai asks if Modi govt on ‘backfoot’ with farmers, ABP, Zee smell Opposition conspiracy

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?