In a three-page letter, the govt asked farmers to give a date and time for the next discussion. The previous five rounds of talks have failed to break the deadlock with the cultivators.
Sompal Shastri has told Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar that farmers' trust in govt has diminished as incomes have constantly dropped, and that's why they are protesting.
Agriculture Minister Tomar also asserted that the new farm laws are beneficial for farmers & the govt is ready to give a written assurance that MSP & mandi system will continue.
Researchers associated with Pennsylvania University’s India study centre looked at agricultural markets of Bihar, Odisha and Punjab. They found that intermediaries are a rational response to the dominant structure of Indian farming.
With measures like MSP, India has been carefully treading the thin line between food and livelihood security and practices classified as 'trade distorting' under the WTO law.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh is leading the negotiations with 40 farmer unions and has discussed the issue with Home Minister Amit Shah earlier today.
Forget comparing it with classics like Hrithik’s Ek Pal Ka Jeena or the slick title track of Dhoom 2, Janaab-e-Aali does not even come close to Ghungroo.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
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.
Not a single self certified environmentalist has objected to farmers’ demand on these two issues – stubble burning and electricity subsidy. What hypocrisy! And the next time The Print’s politician of the decade, Shri Arvind Kejriwal raises the issue of pollution in Delhi, will The Print have the intellectual honesty to remind him of his position here?
Not a single self certified environmentalist has objected to farmers’ demand on these two issues – stubble burning and electricity subsidy. What hypocrisy! And the next time The Print’s politician of the decade, Shri Arvind Kejriwal raises the issue of pollution in Delhi, will The Print have the intellectual honesty to remind him of his position here?