'The people preferred Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar...' IMAGE: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) workers celebrate at Sena Bhavan in Mumbai on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo......
'Seven hundred farmers lost their lives.''The protesting farmers were demonised and called names like andolanjiwi, Khalistani, anti-national.' IMAGE: A farmer shouts slogans during the protest......
'Why did the government not include a provision in the bills which categorically stated that no crop will be sold below the MSP in the open market?' IMAGE: Members of various farmer organisations......
'Political parties are following the Divide and Rule policy to break the unity of farmers.' IMAGE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and other leaders......
'He is not looking at the interest of farmers. He only wants to do the politics of elections.''This Budget is for the new super India. It is exploiting the villages of Bharat.' Farmers in their......
Farmer interest groups predict that unless the government corrects its agricultural pricing and procurement policy, it will face a political blowback, notes Aditi Phadnis. Image: NDA needs to......
When activists of the Right to Food campaign attacked Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia over the Rs 32 per capita per day cut-off for poverty line, Vijay Jawandhia -- a......
Ultimately, it boils down to whether a loan waiver will help without taking action to improve irrigation facilities and to ensure remunerative prices for farmers.Vijay Jawandhia, President,......
Why are Indian farmers killing themselves? For Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), part of the Geneva-based International Institute for Sustainable Development, the key to this question is shut in......