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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicFarmers protests

Topic: farmers protests

Farmers’ unions reject govt offer to set up committee, next round of talks Thursday

Modi government has asked the protesting farmer unions to furnish a list of the objections they have with the three farm laws at the next meeting. 

Modi trying to ‘prove himself’ to farmers, Delhi politicians meet in ‘quiet’ fields

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Canada will always defend rights of peaceful protest’ — Justin Trudeau on farmers’ agitation

BJP leader Ram Madhav questions Trudeau's 'locus standi', asks 'isn’t it tantamount to interference in India’s sovereign matters?'

Centre invites farmers’ unions for talks today on new agri laws

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Monday had invited leaders of farmer unions for talks on Tuesday, instead of 3 December, citing Covid and cold.

Won’t budge till Modi listens to us, say women farmers braving winter chill at Delhi border

Women farmers are among protesters from Punjab and Haryana who are camping at Singhu and Tikri borders of Delhi, defiant in their resolve to make the government listen to them.

This is how Modi govt plans to address farmers’ problems, end protests

BJP, the main party in the ruling coalition, seems to be following a two-pronged strategy to deal with farmer protests, which have been on since the laws were passed in September.

BJP leaders suffer ‘jet lag’ after Hyderabad, and the Parliament’s ‘safety moat’

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

BJP ally RLP threatens to quit NDA if Modi govt doesn’t withdraw farm laws

RLP convenor and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal also said that recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission should be implemented.

Amit Shah, Narendra Singh Tomar hold talks with BJP chief JP Nadda over farmers’ protest

Home Minister Amit Shah has already said the Centre will hold discussions with the farmers as soon as they move to the designated place in Burari ground in Delhi.

I am from a farmer’s family, not using these protests for stardom, actor Deep Sidhu says

In interview to ThePrint, Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu also says he only campaigned for BJP's Sunny Deol as he is a brother to him.

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Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.