The story so far: As farmers protest on Delhi borders, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved ₹340/quintal as the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane for sugar season 2024-25 at 10.25% sugar recovery rate. Affirming its ‘guarantee’ to double farmers’ income, the Centre pointed out that the new FRP was 8% … Read more
Farmers engaged in harvesting and loading of sugarcane in Belagavi district of Karnataka. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu Centre increases Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, met here on Wednesday, approved ₹ 340/quintal as the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane for Sugar Season 2024-25 at … Read more
According to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, from the 2025-26 academic session, students will get an opportunity to appear for 10th and 12th class board exams twice. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu PM Modi to to launch projects worth ₹30,500 crore in Jammu and Kashmir on February 20 All eyes in J&K are … Read more
Farmers at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border during their âDelhi Chaloâ protest, near Patiala district, on February 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI After the fourth meeting between Union Ministers and farmer representatives to deliberate on their demands, in which the government proposed to give a guarantee on procuring five crops on Minimum Support Price (MSP), … Read more
West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) Chairperson Tulika Das arrives in Khulna, Sandeshkhali to meet the woman whose child was snatched and thrown away by unknown persons, in North 24 Parganas on February 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI 10 dead in blast at fireworks unit in Tamil Nadu’s Sattur Ten workers … Read more
âWe appeal to PM again… not a question of Punjab or Haryana aloneâ: Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher Amid a third round of talks with the central government ending in a stalemate, the General Secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher on Friday urged an intervention on part of Prime Minister Narendra … Read more
Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher criticised the centreâs way of handling the protests A meeting of the farmer unions and the central government has been scheduled for today at 5 pm. Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher criticised the centreâs way of handling the protests pointing out the high-level security measures involving even para-military forces. âThere … Read more
Offering a legal guarantee for the procurement of all crops at minimum support prices would leave very little money in the government’s coffer for other development and social goals, unnamed government officials told the Times of India. They said it would be a fiscal disaster for the country. Farmers Protest: Check Live Updates The officials … Read more
Traffic slowed down to a crawl at several places in the national capital on Tuesday due to the restrictions imposed by the police in view of a ‘Delhi Chalo’ call issued by farmer associations from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab. Movement of traffic was hit especially hard at the city’s borders with Uttar Pradesh and … Read more
File image used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: PTI Six trains have been cancelled due to a ” rail roko” protest of farmers’ group Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) that entered its second day on April 3 at the Batala railway station in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district. The farmers launched their indefinite protest on … Read more