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Farmers continue to protest at Delhi borders amid heavy police deployment

With the protesting farmers sticking to their demand for the repeal of the Centre's new farm laws, thousands remained at the national capital's border points amid heavy police deployment

India's answer to angry farmers is not to reverse course but to go further

Policies designed for an India on the edge of starvation don't fit the India of today, which should be more worried about quality of its nutrition

Time for non-farmers to join protests against new agri laws: P Sainath

It is time now that the "non-farmer" section of the society join peasants in their protest against the three farm laws, said agriculture expert-journalist P Sainath

Bar Council of Delhi writes to PM Modi, urges repeal of new farm laws

Extending support to farmers' protest against new farm laws, the Bar Council of Delhi has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to repeal the new farm laws

No outside person allowed to interfere in India's issues: Farmer leader

No outside person is allowed to interfere in India's internal matters, one of the agitating farmer leaders said about Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's support to protest against the farm laws

Delegation of farmers to meet agriculture minister amid agri laws protests

A delegation of farmers will meet Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar, said Spokesperson, Bharatiya Kisan Union while adding that all farmer organisations across the country should hit the streets now

Farmers protest: Rahul Gandhi slams Centre, calls it govt of 'lie and loot'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Union government over farmers protest against the new agriculture laws and termed the Centre a government of 'lie and loot'

Farmers' protest over Central govt's new agri laws enters seventh day

The farmers' protest against the three agricultural sector laws passed by the central government in the last monsoon session entered seventh day

Farmers unions, ministers begin talks on agri laws as protests continue

Farmer unions decided to attend a meeting with the Centre as protesters continued their agitation at Delhi border points against the government's new farm laws

Protesting farmers try to enter Delhi by breaking barricades at border

Agitating farmers on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border near Ghazipur tried to enter the national capital by breaking the barricades. However, they were soon pacified by their own leaders

Union ministers to meet and discuss demands of farmers ahead of talks

Ahead of the meeting with the farmer leaders at 3 pm today, amid protests against the recent farm laws, several Union Cabinet Ministers are meeting at the residence of BJP President JP Nadda

Agri laws: Protesting farm unions to decide on govt's offer to hold talks

Protesting farmers have called a meeting later in the day to take a decision on the Centre's offer to hold talks as they continue their agitation at Delhi border against the new agri laws

Govt invites farmers for talks today; PM says they are being misinformed

The Centre invited agitating farmer unions for talks on Dec 1, two days ahead of a scheduled meeting. At the same time, PM Modi said the protests are based on creating doubts through misinformation

Farmers' protest over agri law enters 5th day, traffic disrupted in Delhi

The ongoing protests by thousands of farmers against the Centre's new farm laws entered the fifth day on Monday, with the protestors threatening to block all five entry points to the national capital Rejecting the Centre's offer to hold talks once they move to the Burari ground, the farmers said they will not accept any conditional dialogue and have called a meeting to discuss their next course of action later in the day. Farmers, who had reached Nirankarai Samagam Ground in Burari on Saturday, continued their protest there. Traffic continued to be disrupted in the city due to the protests. Taking to twitter, the Delhi Traffic Police on Monday alerted commuters to take an alternate route since Singhu and Tikri borders continued to remain closed. "Singhu Border is still closed from both sides. Please take alternate route.Traffic has been diverted from Mukarba Chowk & GTK road.Traffic is very very heavy. Please avoid outer ring road from signature bridge to Rohini & vice versa, .

Tikri, Singhu borders shut for traffic movement amid farmers' protest

Tikri and Singhu borders have been closed for any traffic movement as the farmers continue their protest against the Centre's farm laws, said Delhi Traffic Police

Adding value to your food

There are speculations on whether the government's policy on genetically engineered products has undergone a subtle, even if undeclared, change. If it is so, it is welcome

Agri reforms will link farmers directly to market, send middlemen out: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the agriculture reforms introduced by the government will connect farmers directly to the market and "send middlemen out of the system"

Healthy, well-spread rainfall raises hope amid Covid-19: CRISIL DRIP

But DRIP scores show some stress for three states and three crops

Wholesale-retail inflation gap in perishables highest during lockdown

Divergence seen narrowing in June as lockdown restrictions are eased

Farmers tap into agritech start-ups to overcome pandemic-induced woes

Apart from helping the cultivator sell his produce at a time when the markets are under lockdown, these start-ups are also using AI and IoT to help him get better yields and employ efficient sowing te