The Hindu Morning Digest, March 03, 2024

The Hindu Morning Digest, March 03, 2024

RJD chief Lalu Prasad . | Photo Credit: ANI Now in the Opposition, mahagathbandhan to hold its first mega joint rally in Bihar on March 3 The stage is all set at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan for March 3’s Jan Vishwas Maharally, the new Bihar Opposition’s first joint rally after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar snapped ties with their mahagathbandhan alliance … Read more

Farmers’ protest 2024 Updates: Centre-farmers to hold fourth round of meeting on February 18

Farmers’ protest 2024 Updates: Centre-farmers to hold fourth round of meeting on February 18

“We appeal to PM again… not a question of Punjab or Haryana alone”: 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

Farmers at the bottom of the food chain

Farmers at the bottom of the food chain

The scenes of farmers and agriculture workers protesting at Delhi’s borders are a throwback to 2020-21: long lines of about 1,000 trolleys attached to brightly-coloured tractors, large dekchis of sweet chai boiling on wood-fuelled stoves to serve hundreds, voices of peacefully organised dissent. In this time’s Delhi Chalo call, though, police and paramilitary forces are ‘better prepared’: … Read more

Farmers’ protest 2024, Delhi Chalo LIVE Updates: Union Ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai to meet farmer representatives in Chandigarh today

Farmers’ protest 2024, Delhi Chalo LIVE Updates: Union Ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai to meet farmer representatives in Chandigarh today

Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher criticised the centre’s 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 centre’s way of handling the protests pointing out the high-level security measures involving even para-military forces. ”There … Read more

Farmers protest 2024 live updates | Farmers have been invited for yet another round of dialogue after two rounds collapsed

Farmers protest 2024 live updates | Farmers have been invited for yet another round of dialogue after two rounds collapsed

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

SKM welcomes Bharat Ratna for Charan Singh, Swaminathan, slams govt for not keeping MSP promise

SKM welcomes Bharat Ratna for Charan Singh, Swaminathan, slams govt for not keeping MSP promise

In this combo of file photos of (L-R) former Prime Ministers P.V. Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh, and agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan, who will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna – country’s highest civilian award. | Photo Credit: PTI Samyukt Kisan Morcha on February 10 welcomed the conferring of Bharat Ratna on Chaudhary Charan Singh … Read more

Morning Digest | PM Modi, President Xi call for speedy disengagement along LAC; Trump arrested in Georgia racketeering case, and more

Morning Digest | PM Modi, President Xi call for speedy disengagement along LAC; Trump arrested in Georgia racketeering case, and more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping engage in a brief interaction at the 15th BRICS Summit, in Johannesburg on August 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Trump arrested in Georgia racketeering case Former U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail on August 24 on racketeering and conspiracy charges for … Read more

Teach BJP, allies a lesson in elections: Samyukt Kisan Morcha in UP capital

Teach BJP, allies a lesson in elections: Samyukt Kisan Morcha in UP capital

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha has exhorted farmers to ‘teach BJP and its allies a lesson’ in the forthcoming assembly polls. The umbrella body of farmers reiterated its demand for a legal guarantee to ensure minimum support price for farm produce at its rally in Lucknow on Monday. The rally drew thousands of farmers from east … Read more

Samyukt Kisan Morcha postpones its Lucknow Kisan Mahapanchayat to November 22

Samyukt Kisan Morcha postpones its Lucknow Kisan Mahapanchayat to November 22

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha has decided to postponed its October 26 Kisan Mahapanchayat in Lucknow due to adverse weather conditions and the ongoing harvest season. After the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed, the SKM announced a Kisan Mahapanchayat to be organised in Lucknow on October 26. On Thursday, … Read more

Lakhimpur incident: Samyukt Kisan Morcha to hold ‘Rail Roko’ on Oct 18 to demand dismissal, arrest of minister Ajay Mishra

Lakhimpur incident: Samyukt Kisan Morcha to hold ‘Rail Roko’ on Oct 18 to demand dismissal, arrest of minister Ajay Mishra

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday said ‘Rail Roko‘ protests will be held across the country on October 18 to demand the dismissal and arrest Union Minister Ajay Mishra in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. In a statement, the umbrella body of farmer unions spearheading the farmers‘ agitation against the Centre’s three agri … Read more