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In talks with farmers, Centre agrees to put on hold electricity Bill and withdraw some provisions in NCR air quality ordinance; both sides to meet on January 4

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On December 30, after a five-hour-long discussion that marked the seventh round of talks with representatives of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the

Interview: Satnam Singh Pannu, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee

‘We have only one demand: Repeal the farm laws,’ says Satnam Singh Pannu

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Interview with Satnam Singh Pannu, president, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee.

Interview: Major Singh Punnawale, AIKS (Punjab)

Major Singh Punnawale: ‘We never asked for these laws’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Major Singh Punnawale, general secretary, All India Kisan Sabha (Punjab).

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Farmers' struggle

Farmers' struggle in India offers a lesson in resilience

T.K. Rajalakshmi at Singhu, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur

A month into the protests, farmers are determined not to yield. And they have alternative media, books, songs and a similar protest in history to keep

Farmers' Protests

Hannan Mollah: ‘The poor farmers know they have no other option but to peacefully protest as long as they can’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Hannan Mollah, working group member, All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee.

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Farmer organisations refute Prime Minister’s comments on Kerala with hard facts and fix December 29 for the seventh round of talks

T.K. Rajalakshmi

On December 26, as the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws entered its 31st day and the government refused to back down on their demand for

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Armed with facts, unrelenting farmers counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charge that opposition parties are misleading them

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a fresh offensive against opposition parties a day after Vivek Agrawal, Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry of

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The number of protesting farmers at the protest points around Delhi swells even as the unions reject another set of eight proposals put forward by the government

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On December 20, Vivek Agrawal, Joint Secretary in the Agriculture Ministry, sent a letter to the farmer organisations inviting them for consultations.

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Protesting farmer leaders send an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urging them not to discredit the farmers’ protest by spreading disinformation and rejecting the ‘assurances’ given by the government

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), which represents over 500 farmer organisations, has sent a strongly worded letter to Pr

Farmers reject Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s proposals even as Supreme Court upholds their right to protest

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The protests by farmers under the banner of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha entered its 23th day on the borders of Delhi at Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur, and at

Inderjit Singh: ‘Modi regime the most anti-farmer government we have seen’

T.K. Rajalakshmi

Interview with Inderjit Singh, vice president, All India Kisan Sabha (Haryana).

Scenes from the farmers' protest

At ground zero: Determined farmers protest at the Delhi borders

T.K. Rajalakshmi from Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders

Braving cold weather, official antipathy and media hostility, lakhs of determined farmers have arrived at the borders of Delhi in a do-or-die battle t

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Editor’s Note

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A rare moment when one can pause, look back, and take stock.

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Captured in time

As independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.