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Ravi Kaushal
AIF, a Cosmetic Change to Woo People Unaware of Agrarian Distress, Say Farm Leaders
11 Jul 2021
"It is interesting to note that there are no budgetary provisions supporting the announcement. How can farmers believe them?" questioned Ashok Dhawale, president, AIKS.
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Farmers’ Protest: Centre Invites 40 Unions for Next Round of Talks on December 30
28 Dec 2020
The farmers’ unions had proposed December 29 as a meeting date. So far, five rounds of talks have failed to break the impasse.
Tarique Anwar
Farm Laws: How Bihar’s Peasantry was Pushed to the Brink after APMCs were Scrapped
28 Dec 2020
Eradication of the APMC-regulated mandi system and the entry of private players led the farming community to losing a favourable marketplace. Farmers were left with no option but to sell their…
Subodh Varma
The Year That Was….People Fight Back a Hostile Government
27 Dec 2020
Like the rest of the world, India too has gone through a turbulent year – the agony of a sweeping pandemic that has afflicted over one crore people till now, as per official records – though the ac
PTI
SC Seeks Centre's Reply on Pleas Challenging Constitutionality of New Farm Laws
12 Oct 2020
Petitions have been filed by lawmakers -- RJD’s Manoj Jha; Congress’s TN Prathapan, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva -- and Rakesh Vaishnav of Chhattisgarh Kisan Congress.
Amey Tirodkar
Imposing e-NAM: APMCs to Be the Next Battleground in Maharashtra?
18 Nov 2019
In Maharashtra, APMCs—especially those with high turnover—are mainly controlled by Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tried time and again to…