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Saturday, August 16, 2025
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Topic: Farmers

Nandigram, Singur farmers angry with Mamata as getting land back hasn’t improved their lot

Farmers in Singur, Nandigram got their land back, but it is ‘uncultivable’. They’re angry because Trinamool didn’t help them, say the agitation was just politics.

BJP taps aspirational classes, promises ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ – once again

While the BJP manifesto or ‘Sankalp Patra’ includes a bit of populism, it largely projects the party as a facilitator for aspirational classes.

Why 175 turmeric & jowar farmers are fighting Telangana CM’s daughter in Lok Sabha polls

The farmers have filed their nominations from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat, hoping it will help highlight their cause nationally.   

The buzz in UP about Modi govt’s farm incentive — Rs 2,000 not enough, just a poll gimmick

Farmers say annual Rs 6,000 under PM-KISAN is too little, too late. They highlight stray cattle menace and believe that Balakot air strikes will help BJP.

38 Delhi-Amritsar trains cancelled as farmers protest on railway tracks

Farmers in Punjab have been protesting on rail tracks to demand loan waivers and payment for sugarcane crop with 15% interest among other issues.

PM Modi’s plan to provide Rs 2,000 to small farmers might not give much relief

Modi’s surprise cash ban and introduction of GST hit the rural economy hard, and by the time he came up with fixes, the rural distress had penetrated deeper and wider.

Haryana’s please-all budget in election year includes sops for farmers & govt employees

The Khattar govt plans to distribute Rs 1,500 crore as special financial & social security to families of farmers who possess less than 5 acres of land.

With eye on polls, PM Modi transfers first instalment of income support scheme to farmers

Funds were transferred to the accounts of more than 10 million farmers.

Want to help farmers, remove middlemen? Scrap the law governing agri markets

Model APMC laws suffer from the same economic problem as the old ones. We should repeal APMC laws and not replace them.

Farmers talks with Maharashtra govt inconclusive, to continue march to Mumbai

Farmers are on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the past year over the BJP govt's 'betrayal' of peasants.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

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?