Farm Bills

'Toolkit' case: Judge Rana's stern castigation of Delhi Police in Disha Ravi's arrest points to flaws in action against her

Disha's arrest itself raises a host of questions – both with regard to the manner in which the Delhi Police picked her up from her home in Bengaluru and the charges levelled against her.

To give the (unseen) woman farmer a land of her own

The mahila kisaans of Bundelkhand are visible everywhere in the fields, but rarely seen in official policy. Khabar Lahariya imagines a world which places women farmers at the centre of agriculture policy rather than at the peripheries.

Bar Council of Delhi urges PM to repeal farm laws, raises concern over transfer of power to bureaucrats

Senior advocate Ramesh Gupta said the government should have taken lawyers into confidence as 'farm laws are simply not related to routine revenue matters, but contractual and commercial ones too'

MSP is an admin mechanism, not legislative one; new agro laws will unshackle farmers, boost competition: BJP economist

MSP was started in the 1960s when India was a food-deficit nation and it has skewed India's farm economy towards a handful of crops.

Ready to resign or be dismissed than bow to 'injustice' to farmers, says Captain Amarinder Singh

The Punjab chief minister said he was uneasy and upset over the situation and wanted to understand the Centre's decision to cause such 'suffering' to farmers amid the COVID-19 crisis

Karnataka court directs police to file FIR against Kangana Ranaut for 'anti-farmer' tweets

In a tweet on 21 September, the actress had said that people who opposed CAA are "now spreading misinformation about Farmers bill and causing terror in the nation, they are terrorists"

Farmers' organisations in Punjab reject agriculture ministry's invite for talks on three farm laws

The protesting farmers also gave an ultimatum to Punjab CM Amarinder Singh to convene a special session of the Assembly for passing a resolution rejecting the new laws within a week

Hathras gangrape victim's family faced most unimaginable assault, says Rahul Gandhi

Commenting on videos of him being manhandled by the police, Rahul Gandhi "The entire country is being assaulted right now, and so, if I got pushed around a bit, it is not a big deal"

Farm laws protests: Rahul Gandhi to hold second round of tractor rallies in Haryana on 6, 7 October

The Congress leader addressed a tractor rally against the farm laws in Punjab on Sunday during a three-day to the state

To counter Opposition on new farm laws, Delhi BJP to hold tractor rallies in 365 villages till 15 Oct

The BJP also criticised the Congress for its "symbolic" act of torching a tractor near the India Gate on Monday