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Passengers from Gujarat perform a garba dance in solidarity with the farmers’ agitation, after their train was halted at Jalandhar Railway Station during a four-hour rail roko protest on February 18.

Popular resentment against the BJP-led Centre rises as ongoing farmers' agitation spreads, shows effects in Punjab local body elections

The spread of the farmers’ agitation to many parts of northern India, the traction it gets from other sections of society and the decimation of the BJ

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Barricades erected by the police on the highway in Ghazipur on February 3.

The BJP government's Goebbelsian campaign against the farmers’ agitation

The BJP government has resorted to a Goebbelsian campaign against the farmers’ agitation. But the protesting farmers are firm that they will overcome

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Farmers arrive to join the ongoing protest by farmers at the Singhu border, on January 31.

Farmers’ protest gets a second wind with people in Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh drawing up new strategies

Even as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre persists with its attempts to grind down the agitation of the farm

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Farmers’ leaders break for lunch during the 11th round of talks with the Central government on the controversial farm laws, at Vigyan Bhavan on January 22.

Government running out of options in face of resolute farmers' agitation

Agitating farmers reject the government’s ‘abeyance ploy’, leaving the BJP with no room to save its face, while the opposition gets ready to grill the

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Akhilesh Yadav , president of the Samajwadi Party, at a press conference in Lucknow on January 2.

Diversion vs determination: Government plan to overshadow farmers' protest with COVID-19 vaccine dry run fails

The Modi regime’s latest attempt to overshadow the growing farmers’ agitation with a grandiose vaccine dry run hits a roadblock, with many experts rai

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Ravneet Singh Bittu, Congress MP from Ludhiana.

Case against Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu for his comments on television on the farmers' protests

The Sangh Parivar’s and the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s efforts to brand the farmers’ siege on the borders of De

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At Badhni Kalan village in Punjab’s Moga district, farmers tend to the farming needs of those agitating in Delhi against the farm laws.

Farmers in Punjab stand in for those involved in the Delhi agitation by fulfilling their farming roles

Giving a boost to the agitation, the practice of friends and neighbours standing in for the agitating farmers by collectively carrying out farming act

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At the SRM Medical Hospital at Kattankulathur in Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu, on August 6. It was one of several institutions across India that were tasked with carrying out phase II human clinical trials of Covaxin, the coronavirus vaccine indigenously developed by Hyderabad’s Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the ICMR.

COVID-19 patients are being treated with drugs such as itolizumab even though there is insufficient evidence on their efficacy against the disease

Some pharma companies appear to be using the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to bypass some of the necessary steps to get government approvals so that t

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The police barricade the border between Delhi and Haryana to prevent the agitating farmers from moving towards the national capital on November 27.

Political impact of the farmer unions’ Delhi siege and Modi government’s deceitful games

Farmers emerge as a major political entity as their Delhi siege mounts a concrete challenge to the BJP and the Narendra Modi government even as the Pr

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At a road blockade in protest against the farm reform bills, in Bathinda on November 5.

Despite the Central government's strong-arm tactics, farmers stand their ground against new farm laws

Despite economic distress, tragic deaths of fellow fighters and the Central government’s strong-arm tactics such as starving Punjab of train services

Ziya Us Salam ,Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader, addressing a press conference in Patna on November 12.

Lessons from the Bihar Assembly election

The resonance the Mahagathbandhan’s campaign has generated will have a bigger impact on the national polity than the BJP-led National Democratic Allia

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Farmers burn the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the pictures of industrialists Mukesh Ambani (right) and Gautam Adani to protest against the farm laws passed in Parliament, in Amritsar on October 23.

A different Dasara: Farmers use unconventional methods to protest against the farm laws

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh use unconventional methods to protest against the Centre’s farm laws.

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