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5 deaths [ 11 ] 160 protestors injured [ 12 ] The 2024 Indian farmers' protest is the second round of continuous protests and road blockades initiated by farmers in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana on 13 February 2024, primarily located at Punjab’s Shambhu border. [ 13 ] The main requests of the protests include securing legal ...
2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest. The 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest was a protest against three farm acts that were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. The acts, often called the Farm Bills, [25] had been described as "anti-farmer laws" by many farmer unions, [26][27] and politicians from the opposition who said that ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Police in India fired tear gas on Tuesday at hundreds of farmers and their supporters during a protest march towards New Delhi to pressure the government to honour a promise ...
Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Twitter. Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) (lit. 'Joint Farmers' Force' or 'United Farmers Front'[1]), formed in November 2020, is a coalition of over forty Indian farmers' unions to coordinate satyagragh (non-violent resistance) against the three farm acts initiated in September of the same year. [2]
AMBALA, India (Reuters) -The Indian government has offered guaranteed support prices for pulses, corn and cotton in a bid to break a deadlock with protesting farmers, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal ...
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Each year from June to September, a heavy band of rain makes its way from India's southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers' thirsty fields.
100+. 89 policemen injured [1] Arrested. 200 arrested [2] The 2021 Farmers' Republic Day protest was a protest on 26 January 2021 at Delhi. [3][4] Part of the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest, it turned violent when the police and the BJP goons started to attack protestors. The protestors also deviated from the parade to take the parde ...
The Indian agriculture acts of 2020, often termed the Farm Bills, [1][2] were three acts initiated by the Parliament of India in September 2020. The Lok Sabha approved the bills on 17 September 2020 and the Rajya Sabha on 20 September 2020. [3] The then President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, gave his assent on 27 September 2020.