Farmers Protest
- India
Rail, road traffic hit as farmers stage protests in Punjab, Haryana
Chandigarh: Farmers on Sunday squatted on railway tracks and blocked roads at several places in Punjab and Haryana as part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s nationwide protest against the Centre “reneging on…
- Telangana
Telangana continues disbursement of investment support among farmers
Hyderabad: The government of Telangana on Tuesday started disbursing financial assistance to farmers owning over five acres of land under Rythu Bandhu. Authorities began depositing the amount under the investment support scheme…
- Bangalore
Karnataka farmers protest against RBI, demand change in loan policy
Bengaluru: Demanding a change of loan policy and delinking CIBIL score for extending the agricultural loan, thousands of farmers staged a protest against the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Bengaluru on…
- Telangana
Telangana government issues orders to procure Rabi jowar crop
Hyderabad: In a major victory for the jowar farmers of the state and for Rythu Swarajya Vedika’s Minimum Support Price (MSP) campaign, the Telangana government finally issued a government order authorizing procurement…
- India
Agnipath threat to Indian security: Haryana farmers, khap panchayats
Chandigarh: The agitation against the Central government’s Agnipath recruitment scheme continued for a second day on Friday, with protesters blocking roads and railway tracks in parts of Haryana, largely close to the…
- Telangana
Telangana cancels land acquisition for ORR after farmers protest
Hyderabad: The Telangana government has cancelled the land pooling process for development of Outer Ring Road (ORR) in Warangal in wake of protests by farmers. An order to this effect was issued…
- Telangana
Telangana: Protest puts a halt on Kaleshwaram Irrigation Scheme
Hyderabad: Package 21 of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) was halted for three days in Byrapur village in Mugpal mandal by Nizamabad Additional Collector B Chandrashekar on Thursday. Residents in the…
- Telangana
Warangal farmers stage protests against land acquisition
Hyderabad: Protest by farmers against the proposal to acquire land in 27 villages around Telangana’s Warangal city led to huge traffic jam on Hyderabad-Hyderabad highway on Wednesday. The farmers staged the sit-in…
- Telangana
Farmers can shift power away from the Centre: CM KCR in Delhi
New Delhi: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Sunday said that it is not a difficult task for farmers to shift power from the central government. He said that all…
- Telangana
Telangana: Agriculturalists demand more power supply for farmers
Hyderabad: To examine the power supply crisis in the state, officials of TS Genco, TS Transco and the Discoms arranged a meeting at chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s office on Tuesday. The…
- News
Piyush Goyal’s remarks irk farming community in Telangana
Hyderabad: The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal’s recent comments on Telangana farmers has sparked anger in the state. Following a meeting with the Telangana government delegation…
- India
UP elections: Despite farmers’ protests, BJP leads in Lakhimpur Kheri
Lakhimpur Kheri: BJP candidate from Nighasan, where the Lakhimpur Kheri violence had taken place in October, is leading in the elections, counting of which is underway. BJP’s sitting MLA Shashank Verma had…
- India
Manmohan Singh slams BJP for blaming Nehru for today’s problems
Chandigarh: The BJP had been in power for more than seven years and was still blaming first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the problems of the people, former prime minister and Congress…
- India
Lakhimpur incident: Ashish Mishra gets bail after four months
Lucknow: Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, and the prime accused in the mowing down four farmers in Lakhimpur on October 3, following a protest by farmers, has been…
- India
Rakesh Tikait slams govt, says farmers would observe ‘Betrayal Day’ on Monday
Noida: Alleging betrayal by the Centre, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday announced a country-wide observance of “Betrayal Day” on Monday over farm issues. The national spokesperson of the…
