Mathura Farmers

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday cautioned people not to allow certain forces wanting to disturb peace in this pilgrim city to succeed.

Kosi Kalan-based PepsiCo plant would become a source for the progress of farmers as well as create employment opportunities, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mr Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stopped mid-speech at a farmers' meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Tuesdaywhen a rape survivor's mother in the crowd shouted slogans demanding justice. The woman was from Rajasthan, where the Congress is in power.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's Kisan panchayat' scheduled in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on February 19 has been postponed to February 23, due to the demise of former Union Minister Captain Satish Sharma.

The thousands of protesting farmers are being instigated against the agricultural laws since they themselves don't know what they want or what was wrong with the new Acts, Bollywood actor and Mathura MP, Hema Malini, has said. At the same time, she has also welcomed the Supreme Court decision to hold the three contentious laws in abeyance as she fe...

Farmers from different parts of Uttar Pradesh have blocked the Delhi-UP border towards Noida and Ghaziabad. Delhi Police and RAF (Rapid Action Force) have been deployed to keep the situation in control. Farmers from districts in UP like Mathura, Bulandshahar, Mainpuri, Atah, Kasganj, Firozabad, Agra and Etawah have come here.

Sixteen farmers have been arrested for allegedly burning stubble, while two revenue officials suspended for dereliction of duty in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, officials said on Tuesday.

Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini started her election campaign amid golden harvests in a farm in Mathura on Sunday. Sickle in hand, draped in a saree matching the colour of her background, the BJP Lok Sabha lawmaker is seeking a second term from Mathura. In 2014, she had won from the same constituency by over 3,30,000 votes.

When this farmer from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district received a certificate waiving one paisa of his outstanding farm loan of Rs 1.5 lakh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's much-hyped farmer loan waiver scheme, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the notes ban issue, saying farmers were forced to deposit their money in banks and a limit on withdrawal was imposed so loans could be given to his "favourite business barons".

Farmers in Mathura, protesting against alleged official callousness, have urged President Pranab Mukherjee to permit them to commit mass suicide on Independence Day.

First, Satish Chand, a farmer from Chhata village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, lost his entire wheat crop worth Rs 80,000, because of the unseasonal March rains and hailstorms. Then, to add insult to injury, the meagre Rs. 18,000 compensation cheque he got from the state government, bounced, yesterday, because the revenue officer's bank acc...

A 40-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by setting himself on fire after seeing his crops destroyed due to untimely rains in Tarauli village in Mathura district on Wednesday, police said.

The police on Sunday filed cases against 586 people for Saturday's violence in Mathura in which farmers, protesting the delay in payment of compensation for their land, pelted stones at security personnel and set vehicles ablaze. Ten people were arrested on Saturday night.

Twenty people, including five policemen, were injured in Mathura today after hundreds of farmers clashed with the police demanding more compensation for their land acquired for building the Gokul Barrage on the Yamuna.

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday cautioned people not to allow certain forces wanting to disturb peace in this pilgrim city to succeed.

Kosi Kalan-based PepsiCo plant would become a source for the progress of farmers as well as create employment opportunities, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mr Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stopped mid-speech at a farmers' meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Tuesdaywhen a rape survivor's mother in the crowd shouted slogans demanding justice. The woman was from Rajasthan, where the Congress is in power.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's Kisan panchayat' scheduled in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on February 19 has been postponed to February 23, due to the demise of former Union Minister Captain Satish Sharma.

The thousands of protesting farmers are being instigated against the agricultural laws since they themselves don't know what they want or what was wrong with the new Acts, Bollywood actor and Mathura MP, Hema Malini, has said. At the same time, she has also welcomed the Supreme Court decision to hold the three contentious laws in abeyance as she fe...

Farmers from different parts of Uttar Pradesh have blocked the Delhi-UP border towards Noida and Ghaziabad. Delhi Police and RAF (Rapid Action Force) have been deployed to keep the situation in control. Farmers from districts in UP like Mathura, Bulandshahar, Mainpuri, Atah, Kasganj, Firozabad, Agra and Etawah have come here.

Sixteen farmers have been arrested for allegedly burning stubble, while two revenue officials suspended for dereliction of duty in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, officials said on Tuesday.

Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini started her election campaign amid golden harvests in a farm in Mathura on Sunday. Sickle in hand, draped in a saree matching the colour of her background, the BJP Lok Sabha lawmaker is seeking a second term from Mathura. In 2014, she had won from the same constituency by over 3,30,000 votes.

When this farmer from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district received a certificate waiving one paisa of his outstanding farm loan of Rs 1.5 lakh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's much-hyped farmer loan waiver scheme, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the notes ban issue, saying farmers were forced to deposit their money in banks and a limit on withdrawal was imposed so loans could be given to his "favourite business barons".

Farmers in Mathura, protesting against alleged official callousness, have urged President Pranab Mukherjee to permit them to commit mass suicide on Independence Day.

First, Satish Chand, a farmer from Chhata village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, lost his entire wheat crop worth Rs 80,000, because of the unseasonal March rains and hailstorms. Then, to add insult to injury, the meagre Rs. 18,000 compensation cheque he got from the state government, bounced, yesterday, because the revenue officer's bank acc...

A 40-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by setting himself on fire after seeing his crops destroyed due to untimely rains in Tarauli village in Mathura district on Wednesday, police said.

The police on Sunday filed cases against 586 people for Saturday's violence in Mathura in which farmers, protesting the delay in payment of compensation for their land, pelted stones at security personnel and set vehicles ablaze. Ten people were arrested on Saturday night.

Twenty people, including five policemen, were injured in Mathura today after hundreds of farmers clashed with the police demanding more compensation for their land acquired for building the Gokul Barrage on the Yamuna.