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Gujarat govt hikes compensation to farmers for land used for power transmission lines, towersGujarat farmers will now receive double the prevailing market value for land used for electricity transmission lines, a significant upgrade...
CM Shivakumar announces one more Karnataka Bhavan in Delhi for civil servant aspirantsKarnataka's Cabinet has greenlit significant developments, including a new Karnataka Bhavan in Delhi for competitive exam aspirants, costin...
Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...
Bengal polls: Tata exit still shapes Singur, 18 years onSingur's landscape is marked by abandoned factory remnants and damaged farmland. The Tata Motors Nano project's 2008 exit reshaped Bengal p...
Export ban lifted before voting in Maharashtra onion beltThe Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Saturday issued a notification permitting the export of onions with the Minimum Export P...
Host farmers at your house like you treated Obama: Asaduddin Owaisi to PM ModiAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to invite protesting farmers to his residence like he had hosted ...
Not even one percent of farmers opposing farm laws: Gujarat Deputy CM"Except in Delhi, there are no protests anywhere in the country. No one is agitating in Gujarat. Some 50,000 persons from a population of 1...
On Gujarat visit, PM interacts with farmers, local self-help group membersThe separate interactions took place on the sidelines of an event where Modi, on a day-long visit to Gujarat, laid foundation stones for a ...
Protesting farmers block highways in various statesA group of 62 farmers' unions had earlier announced that traffic will be blocked for three hours on all national highways across the countr...
Farmer protests doubled in 2015 due to Land BillFarmers in many states remained aggrieved due to alleged anti-farmer provisions in the Land Acquisition Bill, 2015 among other reasons, con...
Congress issues bandh call against Vibrant Gujarat SummitSome farmers organisations protesting against low MSP for cotton & groundnut have called for a march on the very first day of the Vibrant G...
Gujarat AAP launches farmer wing, to oppose investor meetFarmer rights activist and former BJP MLA Kanu Kalsariya said the wing will hold a programme at Nagani's village against the January 11-13 ...
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh withdraws stir seeking cotton minimum support price hikeAs per its new "strategy", BKS plans to invite the Gujarat government to hold fresh talks with six of their representatives to avoid such "...
Gujarat government is concerned about farmers, says BJP leader Dinesh SharmaGujarat govt is aware and are in touch with centre to take appropriate decision for the benefit of cotton growing farmers," Dinesh Sharma s...
Farmers protest against investment regions in GujaratGovt of Gujarat introduced the Special Investment Region Act in 2009 for creating large scale industrial and residential zones.
Another Singur? Gujarat farmers oppose new industries and proposed gas-based power plantFarmers near his home town Vadnagar in Mehsana district are opposing new industries and a proposed gas-based power plant.
Gujarat govt removes 36 villages from special investment regionGujarat government today announced removal of 36 villages from the SIR in Mandal Becharaji region, limiting it only to eight villages.
- Gujarat farmers to intensify their stir if SIR is not scrapped
The Jamin Adikar Andolan Gujarat (JAAG), representing farmers, said here today that it would intensify its agitation against the Mandal-Bec...
Narendra Modi's decision to set up SIRs receives disapproval from farmersNarendra Modi's decision to set up special investment regions - SIRs - has drawn flak from farmers who fear cultivable land will be grabbed...
Farmers rally against Gujarat's plans to develop Mandal as SIR5,000 farmers took out a tractor rally today protesting against Guj govt's decision to develop Mandal-Becharaji as Special Investment Region