The eleventh round of talks between protesting farmer unions and three central ministers in Delhi ended on Friday, once again with no solution on the deadlock. The Centre conveyed it to the farmers that the government has placed its best proposal forward and now the onus lies with them.
Agitating farmers on Thursday rejected the Modi government’s offer to suspend the three farm laws for 18 months and insisted on complete rollback of the agricultural reforms, dashing hopes for an end to the 58-day protests.
Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said the talks with protesting farmers regarding the Centre's three contentious farm laws are 'progressing in the right direction' and 'there is a possibility of finding a resolution on January 22'.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stirred controversy by lauding China's clear strategic vision amid the faceoff at the Line of Actual Control.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that she would contest West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 from Nandigram. Suvendu Adhikari has accepted the challenge thrown by Mamata Banerjee to contest from his Nandigram assembly seat, asserting to that he said 'i will defeat her in the election or quit politics'.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the grand old party will not relent till the three farm laws are repealed. Rahul who led the party's protest in the national capital in support of the agitating farmers, said that the farm laws are not to help farmers, but to finish them.
They will undergo a two-week quarantine as well as a throat swab test and an antibody test for Covid-19. They are to start working with Chinese experts via video conference while in quarantine.
The Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 13 approved a Rs 48,000-crore deal for the purchase of 83 Light Combat Aircraft Tejas from the HAL.
Farmer unions have turned downed the Supreme Court's proposal of discussing the issues concerning the three farm laws in a special committee. Farmer leaders refused to appear before the committee.
The Supreme Court on Monday heard a batch of petitions, including those filed by DMK MP Tiruchi Siva, RJD MP Manoj K Jha, challenging the constitutional validity of the three farm laws, passed by the Centre along with the plea to remove protesting farmers.
The eighth round of talks between three Union ministers -- Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal and Som Parkash -- and the 40 protesting farmer unions ended without any breakthrough on Friday.
A second dry run for COVID-19 vaccination will be held in all the states on Friday, sources have said. The first massive dry run was held on January 2.
The decisive mandate the BJP got in two consecutive general elections in 2014 and 2019 indicated voters' preference for political stability, according to former President Pranab Mukherjee.
England has gone under a new national lockdown as Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said the UK would remain under restrictions until at least mid-February, to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus.
The seventh round of talks between protesting unions and government ended inconclusively on Monday as the farmers remained adamant on the repeal of the three contentious farm laws. The next meeting has been scheduled for January 8.
An expert panel on COVID-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Friday recommended to grant emergency use authorisation for the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, being manufactured by Serum Institute of India, sources said on Friday.
India may begin vaccinating people against Covid-19 in January and the government’s first priority has been safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
The sixth round of talks between the government and farmers ended on a fruitful note on Wednesday. The Centre agreed on two of four demands raised by the farmer leaders while the remaining issues including that of the MSP will be discussed in a meeting scheduled on January 4, 2021.
Thousands of protesting farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at three Delhi border points - Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri - for over a month now demanding a repeal of three farm laws and legal guarantee for minimum support price.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Monday that his government has undertaken historic reforms in the farm sector to boost agriculture and strengthen farmers.
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