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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicPunjab farmers

Topic: Punjab farmers

Amarinder asks Amit Shah to intervene as train suspension in Punjab causes ‘colossal losses’

The trains were stopped after farmers launched a 'rail roko' stir over farm laws, but Punjab CM has assured Shah that protesters have cleared train tracks.

Why farmers’ protest against farm laws has led to a power crisis in power-surplus Punjab

The protest by farmers in Punjab began as a fight against the farm laws but has since galvanised as a campaign against corporates that extends to toll plazas, petrol pumps and malls.

Modi govt’s farm bill talks with Punjab farmers fail as delegation walks out of meeting

Farmer leaders from Punjab, who met Union Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal for an hour Wednesday, were incensed about the absence of any Union minister at the talks.

Punjab farmers begin ‘rail roko’ agitation in protest against farm bills, trains suspended

As many as 31 farmers' outfits have called for a complete shutdown of Punjab on 25 September to protest the bills.

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.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.