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New Delhi: Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesting farmers at the Haryana-Punjab Shambhu Border. Reportedly, 6 farmers have been injured and are being taken to a local hospital. A group of 101 farmers resumed their ‘Delhi chalo’ foot march at 12 pm on Saturday, pressing the government to fulfill their long-standing…
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Farmers are set to resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ foot march on Saturday, 12pm. Chandigarh: A ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers will resume their foot march to Delhi at 12 noon on Saturday from the Shambhu border point to press the Centre for various demands including a legal guarantee for minimum support price. The Haryana government suspended…
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New Delhi: Protesting farmers will resume their ‘Dilli Chalo’ march today, two days after the police used tear gas to stop them from proceeding towards Delhi at the Shambhu border between Haryana and Punjab. Here are the top 10 points in this big story: Punjab farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said the farmer bodies, Samyukta…
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Farmers Protest in Delhi: Traffic into and out of the national capital was affected. New Delhi: The Congress on Friday called on the Bharatiya Janata Party to respond proactively to protesting farmers’ demands about a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price, or MSP, and warned the government, “Do not allow the farmers of this country…
Over 100 farmers are preparing to march towards Delhi on Friday to press for their demands. New Delhi: Ahead of the farmers’ march to Delhi scheduled for Friday, security has been tightened at the Shambhu border on NH-44, with both Haryana and Punjab police deploying significant resources to manage the swelling crowds of protesters. Over…
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The Supreme Court said farmers will be free to shift their peaceful agitations to alternative sites. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday constituted a committee headed by former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Justice Nawab Singh to amicably resolve the grievances of protesting farmers at the Shambhu border. A bench of Justices Surya…
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Supreme Court to soon form a committee to amicably resolve the grievances of farmers “for all times” New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said it would soon constitute a multi-member committee to amicably resolve the grievances of farmers “for all times”. A bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, which…
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New Delhi: Farmers pushing the government to revamp the MSP, or minimum support price, policy met Congress MP Rahul Gandhi inside the Parliament complex Wednesday morning. Mr Gandhi, who is also Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, met a delegation of 12 farmer leaders from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and…
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Farmers had clashed with security personnel during their march to Delhi in February Protesting farmers will march to Delhi after the Haryana government clears roadblocks at Shambhu border separating Haryana and Punjab. Jagjeet Singh Dallewal, president of Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta Sidhupur, told NDTV they will continue their peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar or Ramlila…
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The heavily fortified Shambhu border crossing between Punjab, Haryana (File). New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked tough questions of the Haryana government after a High Court order this week directing the re-opening of the Shambhu border crossing, which has been locked down since February to block farmers protesting the centre’s agricultural policies from marching…
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