000 Farmers March

Large gatherings have been banned across Delhi for a month - till March 12 - ahead of a mega protest by farmers starting Tuesday, with over 200 farmer unions - around 20,000 farmers in all - are expected to converge on the city in the next few days.

Amid the farmers' march to Jantar Mantar in support of the protesting grapplers in the national capital, over 2,000 security personnel have been deployed on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released Rs 18,000 crores as the next instalment under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to over 9 crore farmers.

20,000 farmers from western UP will march to Delhi Thursday to highlight their support of the farm laws, setting up a potential face-off with thousands of others who have been camped around the city borders for nearly a month in protest of those laws

Farmer union Kisan Sena said thousands of its members from western Uttar Pradesh will march to Delhi on Thursday in support of the Centre's new agriculture laws.

Over 50,000 farmers on Wednesday embarked on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to protest against what they termed as the "betrayal" of peasants by the BJP governments at the state and centre. The Kisan Long March-2 -- expected to take over nine days to complete -- is being organised by the CPI(M)'s All ...

The government has, in all, budgeted Rs 74,140 crore in dividends from the RBI and the state-run lenders in the year ending March 31 and has penciled in Rs 82,910 crore for the next year.

Denied permission by police to march to Parliament, around 35,000 farmers from across the country have converged near Parliament Street Police station in the national capital today, where their leaders addressed the protesters. The national secretary of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), Asish Mittal, said farmers from 2...

With hopes of being heard in the country's capital and to send a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government just months before it seeks re-election, nearly 8,000 farmers from across India have begun their march to parliament. The farmers began a two-day protest in Delhi on Thursday with demands including loan waivers and better prices for...

Thousands of farmers from Maharashtra ended their agitation on Thursday evening, after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis gave a written assurance that most of their demands would be met within three months. The agitators -- comprising farmers as well as members of the tribal community -- had reached Mumbai's Azad Maidan that afternoon, two days afte...

Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...

To woo the farmers in West Bengal ahead of Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the Mamata Banerjee government has decided to disburse farm loans worth around Rs. 7,000 crore at a low interest rate of 2 per cent, state minister Arup Roy said today. The interest rate has been reduced from the existing 4 per cent. The loans would be disbursed through coopera...

Yasin Khan, 45, is the father of six kids. He is the sole breadwinner in his family of eight and works as a sugarcane farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar. The government sugarcane mill has not given his total payment of Rs 10,000 for the last four months.

Seven policemen, including an assistant commissioner of police, were injured today during the protest by farmers on Delhi-UP border, Delhi Police said.

After an overnight march in Delhi, farmers have called-off their protest after reaching Kisan Ghat, the memorial of Chaudhary Charan Singh, news agency IANS reported. They were allowed to enter the national capital late in the night after police unsealed the border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

Large gatherings have been banned across Delhi for a month - till March 12 - ahead of a mega protest by farmers starting Tuesday, with over 200 farmer unions - around 20,000 farmers in all - are expected to converge on the city in the next few days.

Amid the farmers' march to Jantar Mantar in support of the protesting grapplers in the national capital, over 2,000 security personnel have been deployed on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released Rs 18,000 crores as the next instalment under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to over 9 crore farmers.

20,000 farmers from western UP will march to Delhi Thursday to highlight their support of the farm laws, setting up a potential face-off with thousands of others who have been camped around the city borders for nearly a month in protest of those laws

Farmer union Kisan Sena said thousands of its members from western Uttar Pradesh will march to Delhi on Thursday in support of the Centre's new agriculture laws.

Over 50,000 farmers on Wednesday embarked on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to protest against what they termed as the "betrayal" of peasants by the BJP governments at the state and centre. The Kisan Long March-2 -- expected to take over nine days to complete -- is being organised by the CPI(M)'s All ...

The government has, in all, budgeted Rs 74,140 crore in dividends from the RBI and the state-run lenders in the year ending March 31 and has penciled in Rs 82,910 crore for the next year.

Denied permission by police to march to Parliament, around 35,000 farmers from across the country have converged near Parliament Street Police station in the national capital today, where their leaders addressed the protesters. The national secretary of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), Asish Mittal, said farmers from 2...

With hopes of being heard in the country's capital and to send a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government just months before it seeks re-election, nearly 8,000 farmers from across India have begun their march to parliament. The farmers began a two-day protest in Delhi on Thursday with demands including loan waivers and better prices for...

Thousands of farmers from Maharashtra ended their agitation on Thursday evening, after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis gave a written assurance that most of their demands would be met within three months. The agitators -- comprising farmers as well as members of the tribal community -- had reached Mumbai's Azad Maidan that afternoon, two days afte...

Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...

To woo the farmers in West Bengal ahead of Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the Mamata Banerjee government has decided to disburse farm loans worth around Rs. 7,000 crore at a low interest rate of 2 per cent, state minister Arup Roy said today. The interest rate has been reduced from the existing 4 per cent. The loans would be disbursed through coopera...

Yasin Khan, 45, is the father of six kids. He is the sole breadwinner in his family of eight and works as a sugarcane farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar. The government sugarcane mill has not given his total payment of Rs 10,000 for the last four months.

Seven policemen, including an assistant commissioner of police, were injured today during the protest by farmers on Delhi-UP border, Delhi Police said.

After an overnight march in Delhi, farmers have called-off their protest after reaching Kisan Ghat, the memorial of Chaudhary Charan Singh, news agency IANS reported. They were allowed to enter the national capital late in the night after police unsealed the border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.