As nation-wide protest by thousands of farmers is still intensifying, a group of farmers from Haryana approved the Centre’s request for the required changes to those laws, which are at the centre of the deadlock. More than a dozen farmers from the Haryana FPO (Farmer Producer Organization) and Jagruk and Pragatiseel Kisan Union signed a written agreement with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar during a meeting with him in his Ministry of Agriculture. They approved the Government’s request for amendments to the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Price Assurance…
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For the first time three countries India, Iran and Uzbekistan will conduct a trilateral dialogue on Monday to explore the shared use of the strategically placed port of Chabahar, which is increasingly seen as a hub for connectivity to Central Asia. Announcement of the meeting was made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA). “The first trilateral working group meeting between India, Iran and Uzbekistan on joint use of Chabahar Port will be held virtually on December 14,” said the MEA. The port is being established by India, Iran and Afghanistan to improve trade relations between the three countries following…
A BJP worker was beaten to death and six others were wounded when a group of people assaulted them during a door-to-door campaign in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Saturday, the police said. Saikat Bhawal had been beaten to death. As he was admitted to the hospital, the doctors said he was “brought dead” the police said, adding that the matter was being investigated. Six others who were also wounded during the attack, were taken to the hospital. Arjun Singh reported that goons, sheltered by the Trinamool Congress, killed Saikat Bhawal, but the ruling party refuted the charge.…
Union Minister of State Anurag Singh Thakur, on Saturday, accused the PDP and NC of abusing the wealth of Jammu and Kashmir and said they had not witnessed any growth in the area. However the area is now undergoing radical changes, and the Narendra Modi regime at the Center has been instrumental in raising many parts of society, he said. The BJP government had given insurance to all Rs 5 lakhs and made sure that no one in the newly sculpted Union Territory had died of malnutrition during the Covid-19 lockdown, he said. Addressing a public meeting in Kashmir’s Budgam…
Speaking for the first time on the latest farm legislation since the continuing agitation broke out, PM Modi defended the law on Saturday that it would break down barriers in the agriculture sector and raise farmers’ incomes. “If you place barriers, which previous governments did, an industry or sector cannot grow. The recent agriculture reforms are a part of that barrier-breaking process. We are removing the barriers within agricultural, food processing, storage and cold chain,” said PM His announcement comes only as thousands of farmers have been demonstrating against the laws for the last two weeks, demanding that the government…
Although the central government maintained that it was open to dialogue with the protesting farmers’ outfits, the farmers’ representatives declined to budge on their demand for the repeal of the farm legislation. Farmers from Punjab and Haryana, demanding the abolition of the Center’s three recent farm regulations, threatened to stir up as the agitation began on Saturday, day 17. With demonstrators deciding to withdraw, the Chilla (Delhi-UP) border was opened for traffic late on Saturday night. One of the demonstrators at Chilla Border. Responding to allegations that the agitation has been “hijacked” by anti-social elements, farmer leader Rakesh Takait said…
Hyderabad witnessed an explosion at a drug manufacturing plant that set fire on Saturday. The explosion took place about 1 p.m. at Vindhya Organics in the Bollaram Industrial Development Area in the Sangareddy district of Telangana, part of the Hyderabad metropolitan area. “A solvent was kept for some reaction after which it caught fire. The injured have been shifted to hospital. A rescue operation is on,” the police said. There were over 100 workers in the warehouse who tried to get out and the fire was quickly brought under control.
Voting for the zilla panchayat (ZP) election in Goa, which has 203 contestants from 48 electoral districts, started on Saturday morning. The voting procedure begun at 8 a.m. and is expected to end at 5 p.m. The ZP survey is the first major state polling exercise since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. 43 candidates were nominated by the BJP, while 38 candidates were nominated by the Congress, led by the Aam Aadmi Party and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party with 17 each. There are also 79 independent candidates in the group. “We are confident of winning these elections. I have…
https://twitter.com/biditabag/status/1337468306622566400?s=20 https://twitter.com/theanshumanjha/status/1337576870418788354?s=20 Arya Banerjee, who starred in Milan Luthria’s 2011 film The Dirtry Image, was found dead on December 11 at her home in Kolkata. The actress played the part of Shakeela in Vidya Balan-Starrer. According to sources, the police had to crack open the door to her home in Kolkata and find the body of a 33-year-old actress lying in the bedroom. The police were summoned after Arya Banerjee’s domestic help had become suspicious, as she had not responded to door bells and phone calls since morning. Remembering the late actress, Bidita Bag wrote, “Rest in peace Arya Banerjee…In…
in the past six years, grains were not being procured, MSP rates were not being announced or the number of items covered under MSP was coming down. But if you compare the last six years with any six years ever before or the six years before us, the quantum of procurement, the price given and the price announced well in time for the farmer to prepare, has risen by at least one-and-half-times,” Nirmala Sitharaman said. https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1337408133598101504?s=20 Asked regarding the accusation that the government did not hold adequate consultations to bring trust to stakeholders prior to introducing these rules, the Minister…