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Farmers in Maddur, Mandya also held a protest inside the Water Management Board campus, demanding drinking water for irrigation. (Photo: ANI)

Bengaluru: Mandya farmers' protest over water crisis enters 6th day

The farmers have been demanding diversion of Cauvery and Hemavati waters to their canals in order to save their produce.

26 Jun 2019 4:08 PM IST

Priyanka Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

'Why are they not being let in?': Priyanka question to BJP as farmers...

The farmers, protesting under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Sangathan (BKS), had started their march from Saharanpur on...

21 Sept 2019 6:58 PM IST

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh speaks during the second day of the Special Vidhan Sabha Session, in Chandigarh, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. (PTI)

Punjab 'negates' central farm laws, passes 4 bills

The move comes after a directive from Sonia Gandhi to states ruled by Congress to pass separate laws negating the effect...

21 Oct 2020 12:56 PM IST

Farmers who came from Punjab and Haryana to protest against the new Farmers Law reached at Burari ground raising slogans to withdraw the anti-farmers law, in New Delhi on Saturday, 28 Nov 2020. (DC Image: D Kamraj)

Pavan K. Varma | At best, farm laws pass reform buck to big biz

The question is not that agricultural commerce needs to be opened up, but what is going to replace it

29 Nov 2020 9:53 AM IST

Farmers stage a protest on the national highway over farm reform laws, in Bulandshahr. (PTI)

After night halt, Punjab farmers resume march towards Delhi

By Friday evening, all Haryana Police barricades at the border with Punjab and along the highway to Delhi had been...

28 Nov 2020 11:46 AM IST

2021: A magical bridge across troubled waters

The enhanced vaccine cover will, we hope, diminish social and economic disruptions.

31 Dec 2020 4:43 AM IST

Over 1,500 mobile towers targeted during farmers stir in Punjab

Over 1,500 mobile towers targeted during farmers' stir in Punjab

Chief Minister Amarinder singh issues stern warning against vandalisation and disruption of telecom services

29 Dec 2020 2:13 AM IST

o make farming profitable, two things need to happen. One is that fewer people be involved in it, and the other is that farm produce gets higher prices (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers' stir link with rural distress tenuous

The suicide rate in India, an agrarian economy, was 13 per 100,000, the rate in industrialised, rich countries was often...

29 Dec 2020 4:06 AM IST

The decision to resume talks was taken at a meeting of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 40 farmer unions protesting at various Delhi border points against three farm laws (AFP)

Farmers to talk with centre on December 29

Farmers have proposed December 29 as the date for the next round of negotiations with the government

27 Dec 2020 4:24 AM IST

Farmers shout slogans during their protest against the new farm laws, at Singhu Border in New Delhi, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. (PTI)

Centre lukewarm to SC suggestion on keeping farm laws on hold

Centre says the farmers would not come forward for negotiations if the implementation of the farm laws was put on hold

18 Dec 2020 10:04 AM IST

Farmer leaders had said that thousands of farmers will start their Delhi Chalo march with their tractors from Rajasthans Shahjahanpur through the Jaipur highway at 11 am on Sunday. (Representational Image: AP)

Heads of protesting farmer unions to go on hunger strike from Monday

Kejriwal asked the BJP-ruled Centre to shun 'arrogance' and scrap the three farm laws as demanded by the agitating...

13 Dec 2020 9:29 PM IST

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikiat addresses media after a meeting with representatives of farmer organizations regarding the Centres farm reform laws, near Singhu border in New Delhi, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Shiv Kumar Kakkaji is also seen. (PTI)

Farmers reject govt proposal, to intensify agitation with nationwide...

According to the union leaders, a new Â‘Delhi chalo' (march to Delhi)' call is being given to all farmers in the north...

9 Dec 2020 8:11 PM IST