Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) will block the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway connecting various protest sites outside Delhi for five hours on March 6. This will be between 11am to 4pm

'Reduce fuel prices by partially rolling back excise duty': Sonia Gandhi to PM Modi Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reduce fuel prices by partially rolling back excise duty, saying that the prices of petrol and diesel are at 'historic and unsustainable' high. She said that the central government has unreasonably levied excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 33 and Rs 32, respectively, which is higher than the base price of these fuels....

The 'Model Bill' intends to ensure protection of farmers from exploitation by middlemen and large corporate entities

According to ICRA, even if the farmers' protest end by February, there would still be a steep decline of 30-35 per cent in toll collection on national highways in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi-NCR region for FY21, as compared to 5-7 per cent drop for rest of India

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A number of Twitter accounts that were tweeting or sharing information on farmers' protests in India have been blocked or withheld in the country by Twitter India.

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

\"While it is difficult to reduce the economic cost of food management in view of rising commitment towards food security, there is a need to consider the revision of CIP to reduce the bulging food subsidy bill,\" says Economic Survey 2020-21

The tractor parades will start from the Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri border points of Delhi, but details will be finalised tonight, farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar said after attending a meeting between the unions and the police

In the tenth round of talks with protesting farmer leaders, the government proposes to suspend the three farm laws and set up a joint committee to discuss the Acts

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The Monday hearing on the pleas by a bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde assumes significance as the Centre and the farmer leaders are scheduled to hold their next meeting on January 15

President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat, has promised to lift the suspension on H-1B visas, saying Trump's immigration policies are cruel

After five rounds of inconclusive talks, the government and 40 farmer unions reached some common ground during the sixth round of negotiations on December 30 to resolve protesting farmers' concerns over rise in power tariff and penalties for stubble burning

Farmers' protest: Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav said that farmers who have been protesting at the Haryana-Rajasthan border will move towards the national capital if the government does not accept the demands

The Centre on Wednesday said there has been a \"mutual consensus\" on two of the four demands raised by the farmers' union

The meeting between representatives of the Centre and 40 farmer unions began at 2:00 pm on Wednesday at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi

Farmers' protest: The agitating farmers have said they'll stick to their position that discussion will take place only on the modalities of repealing the Agri laws and giving a legal guarantee on MSP, among other issues

Minimum support prices (MSP) across the board surpass international prices, in the range of 119 per cent to 11 per cent, making Indian crops uncompetitive in the global export market

Farmers' protest: Darshan Pal, farmer leader and Punjab President of the Krantikari Kisan Union said that they have not received any communication from the government