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Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers
While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard
Delhi Police to decide on Farmers’ entry into Delhi for Republic Day rally: SC
The Delhi Police had filed a plea in the top court seeking a ban on the proposed tractor rally by farmers citing security issues
Kisan Parade will showcase floats and tableaus reflecting state of agriculture: SKM
Farmers organisations appealed for city and state police’s cooperation to ensure no anti-social element infiltrates the parade.
Those summoned may not appear before NIA as a mark of protest: Farm union leaders
Khalsa Aid urges international bodies, monitoring agencies to hold India to account, say summons are politically motivated
Not just a farmers struggle, but a fight for democracy: P. Sainath
On Saturday, Magsaysay award winner P. Sainath addressed masses in Patna about the significance of the farmers movement and the three laws opposed by the peasantry
10,000 people assemble at Azad Maidan! Mumbaikars put Centre’s claim to shame
Punjab farmer leaders who travelled to the city for the Saturday event thanked attendees for refuting the ‘only-Punjab-Haryana-protest” narrative of the Government of India.
Farmers organisations begin maintaining record of the fallen
As the death toll reaches 120, volunteers in the farmers’ struggle begin a blog to honour and record the people who had lost their lives during the movement.
Jai Kisan, say veteran jawans now stationed on Delhi’s borders in solidarity with farmers
The armed forces veterans’ presence at the protest sites has added a sense of security, national pride, hundreds come to meet the ‘heroic faujis’.
Jan 15 talks inconclusive: Centre and farmers remain at loggerheads
Farmer leaders said they will not budge from their demand for repeal of the three laws and legalisation of MSP
NIA summons farmers union leader Baldev Singh Sirsa for questioning
Sirsa the president of Lok Bhalai Insaf Welfare Society, says National Investigation Agency action is bid to derail protest
Delhi Police cracks down on MPs, MLA sitting on farmer solidarity protest at Jantar Mantar
Police action comes after Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi visited their party colleagues at the site, and also accused the government of being anti farmer
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