Farmers Protest
- Telangana
Telangana: Protest puts a halt on Kaleshwaram Irrigation Scheme
Hyderabad: Package 21 of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) was halted for three days in Byrapur village in Mugpal mandal by Nizamabad Additional Collector B Chandrashekar on Thursday. Residents in the…
- Telangana
Warangal farmers stage protests against land acquisition
Hyderabad: Protest by farmers against the proposal to acquire land in 27 villages around Telangana’s Warangal city led to huge traffic jam on Hyderabad-Hyderabad highway on Wednesday. The farmers staged the sit-in…
- Telangana
Telangana: Agriculturalists demand more power supply for farmers
Hyderabad: To examine the power supply crisis in the state, officials of TS Genco, TS Transco and the Discoms arranged a meeting at chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s office on Tuesday. The…
- News
Piyush Goyal’s remarks irk farming community in Telangana
Hyderabad: The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal’s recent comments on Telangana farmers has sparked anger in the state. Following a meeting with the Telangana government delegation…
- India
UP elections: Despite farmers’ protests, BJP leads in Lakhimpur Kheri
Lakhimpur Kheri: BJP candidate from Nighasan, where the Lakhimpur Kheri violence had taken place in October, is leading in the elections, counting of which is underway. BJP’s sitting MLA Shashank Verma had…
- India
Manmohan Singh slams BJP for blaming Nehru for today’s problems
Chandigarh: The BJP had been in power for more than seven years and was still blaming first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the problems of the people, former prime minister and Congress…
- India
Lakhimpur incident: Ashish Mishra gets bail after four months
Lucknow: Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, and the prime accused in the mowing down four farmers in Lakhimpur on October 3, following a protest by farmers, has been…
- India
Salesman at Mahindra showroom insults farmer, here’s what he did next
Humiliated and judged for his looks by a salesperson at a Mahindra showroom in Karnataka, a farmer returned back with 10 lakh rupees, demanding an apology and same-day delivery as promised by…
- Telangana
Telangana: Revanth Reddy demands compensation to farmers for crop losses
Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President & MP A Revanth Reddy on Friday demanded that the State Government immediately pay compensation to the farmers who lost their crops due to unseasonal…
- India
Punjab CM Channi hits out at BJP with quote from Sardar Patel
Chandigarh (Punjab): Amid a war of words between the Centre and the Punjab government over the security breach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the state on Wednesday, state…