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

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

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.

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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

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 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

As per the SBI Ecowrap, the monthly income of farmers will go up by a sharp 35 per cent by just revisiting the current Kisan Credit Card (KCC) norms

The five point strategies suggested by the SBI includes setting up contract farming institution, inserting quantity guarantee clause instead of MSP, converting MSP to floor price of auction on eNAM, strengthening APMC market infrastructure and revisiting KCC scheme

Farmers' protest: The tributes will be paid from 11 am to 1 pm in all houses across the country's villages, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) said in a statement on Saturday

The farmer group pointed out that a stay on the farm laws would have been the constructive role expected from the Supreme Court to resolve the deadlock between the farmers and central government

The coordination committee of agitating farmer groups says that by attributing political sides to farmer struggles, PM Modi instead of addressing the issue of repeal of the three contentious farm laws has reduced himself to a party leader

PM Modi speech: Agriculture experts, economists and progressive farmers have been demanding the farm reforms, said PM Modi to MP farmers through video conferencing