Nearly 10,000 farmers from Punjab will take part in a 72-hour protest in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri against the Centre starting today. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha called for the protest to "seek justice" in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. | Read more|
The world’s opinion about him seemed evenly divided. Lawyer, actor, activist Deep Sidhu attracted admirers and critics in almost equal measure. It was the farmers’ tractor march and the Red Fort violence on Republic Day last year that put Sidhu in the limelight and brought him widespread criticism in its wake. Lead | Read more|
Lakhimpur Kheri violence case prime accused Ashish Mishra, son of BJP leader Ajay Misra, and two other accused were granted bail by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday. | Read more|
Youngsters and farmers are pressing buttons of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) hard out of the anger, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary said in a swipe at the BJP today amid several complaints of EVM malfunction in the first phase of Uttar Pradesh polls. | Read more|
Three farmers have been found dead in West Bengal's rice bowl Purba Bardhaman district in the last two days, police said on Sunday. The dead farmers' families claimed that they have died by suicide after Cyclone Jawad-induced untimely rain destroyed potato and paddy crops, while the district administration is probing t | Read more|
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday gave an adjournment of business notice in the Lok Sabha to discuss a report submitted by the Special Investigation Team of the Uttar Pradesh police on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. He stated that the Centre must sack Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra, whose son Ash | Read more|
Singing, dancing and cheering atop their tractor-trolleys, farmers on Saturday began their journey home from Delhi borders after dismantling their tents and other structures at the end of a year-long sit-in protest against the agri laws. They were given a rousing welcome with sweets, garlands, bhangra and langars in th | Read more|
Farmers camping at Delhi's Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders will take out a victory march today as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that forced the centre to withdraw three contentious farm laws. | Read more|
Twelve opposition MPs from Rajya Sabha have been suspended from parliament's Winter Session and the opposition has condemned the suspension, saying it is against the rules. The list of suspended MPs includes Shiv Sena's Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai, Trinamool Congress's Dola Sen and Shanta Chhetri CPM's Elamaram | Read more|
The Union Cabinet is likely to take up for approval on Wednesday the bills for withdrawal of the three farm laws, sources in the government said. These bills shall then be introduced in the forthcoming session of Parliament, they added. | Read more|
For a year, farmers and their families, mainly from Punjab, camped at Delhi’s border protesting against the farm laws. After the Prime Minister announced a repeal, The Indian Express retraces their journey: from the village where the spark of an agitation was lit to one where the earliest death was recorded. Along th | Read more|
The decision to repeal the three farm laws marks the most significant step back by the Narendra Modi government since 2014 and has its roots in the way it misread – and framed – the groundswell against the laws in Punjab since last summer. | Read more|
US Congressman Andy Levin has welcomed the repeal of the three farm laws in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year, and appealed to the protesting farmers to return home. | Read more|
Apologising to the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced the repeal of the three contentious farm laws against which farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting at the borders of Delhi for nearly a year. | Read more|
The government must pursue farmers against stubble burning, the Supreme Court said today as it stressed that it does not want to punish them while Delhi and neighbouring cities see an escalating air quality crisis. | Read more|