Farmers' protest: SC to hear PIL seeking clearance of highways in Punjab on Dec 9The Supreme Court will address a plea to clear blockades on Punjab highways caused by farmer protests. Farmers resumed their 'Delhi Chalo' ...
Supreme Court seeks govt response on PIL for implementation of MSP recommendationsThe Supreme Court has requested a response from the government regarding a PIL urging the implementation of the M.S. Swaminathan-led Nation...
Delhi High Court declines to hear PIL alleging discrimination against jawans"We are not inclined to entertain the PIL. Dismissed," a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said while noti...
Aim to double farmers' income by 2022 to tackle suicides: Government to Supreme CourtThe Ministry of Agriculture also proposed to make special efforts to ensure adequate flow of credit in under-serviced areas, eastern states...
Compensation for farmers suicide can't deal with farm debt: Supreme CourtAn SC bench said "paying compensation is not the solution to deal with farmers' suicides" as the key reason for these suicides was indebted...
Why no national policy to help calamity-hit farmers, asks Supreme CourtThe bench suo motu decided to convert the appeal into a PIL and issued notices to the Centre, states and Union Territories. It asked them t...
No plan to tax agricultural income: GovernmentGovernment is committed to double the income of farmers in five years and that it would not only be done through increasing minimum support...
Enough cereals, but need to import oil, pulses: Centre to Supreme CourtThe Centre also rubbished the view that agriculture was still dependent on monsoon and said that approximately 48% of the land is irrigated.
Former Punjab CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal slams Modi government over land ordinance"Land acquisition ordinance promulgated by Narendra Modi government is anti-farmer and impinges on the right of farmers to preserve their l...
Can't raise MSP of cereals by 50%: Agricultue Ministry tells Supreme CourtThe working group had said that the methodology used by the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Pricing for calculating cost of cultivatio...
- Maharashtra BJP dismisses Cong-NCP charges against Gujarat govt
Addressing a press conference, BJP spokesman Madhav Bhandari said the issue was between two agencies - Gujarat-based Mehsana milk federatio...