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A 22-year-old Indian climate activist who is facing sedition charges for her alleged role in the creation of an online document intended to help amplify farmer protests did not get bail Saturday ...
Santosh Singh’s earliest memory is of tilling soil on his family’s farm. Now, the 70-year-old farmer’s eyes gleam with pride as he recalls watching his grandson do the same.
Farmers young and old headed in cars, trucks and tractors to the highway for a five-hour roadblock to oppose three farm laws enacted in September 2020. Reuters NEW DELHI – Indian farmers began ...
CHENNAI, India, Dec 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian farmers ended a year of protests on Thursday after winning unexpected concessions from government that have raised hopes of higher ...
Mr. Agrawal, a 41-year-old businessman in Delhi, ... Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Defiant Indian Farmers Burn Their Own Fields To Protest Modi Reform.
Stocks of new notes haven't replenished the old ones fast enough, and many of India's 119 million farmers are reeling in the new financial reality. (SOUNDBITE OF ENGINE IDLING) ...
Four protesting farmers and a journalist were killed Sunday in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after a convoy of SUVs—including one owned by a minister in Narendra Modi’s far-right BJP ...
More than 85% of Indian farmers are categorised as small, meaning that, like Sharma, they own about four acres or fewer. Together, they control 47% of the country's crop area, government figures show.
"The farmer dies feeding this country, but no one fights for the farmer," says a woman whose son, a farmer, died by suicide. He was $40,000 in debt. Her husband died of a heart attack days later.