Tribune News ServiceNew Delhi, January 27
Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav on Wednesday released a video saying the farmer leaders could not escape the moral responsibility of being unable to mana
Full share of water reaches Rajasthan’s Sidhmukh Canal Project after 18 years
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District administration stopped water theft by guarding the 64-km-long distributary round-the-clock.
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District administration stopped water theft by guarding the 64-km-long distributary round-the-clock. Eighteen years after the construction of the Raslana distributary of the Sidhmukh Canal Project in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district, farmers at the tail-end have started getting their full share of water. The water had become insufficient because of illegal diversion through pipelines to the villages in neighbouring Haryana for its sale.
The district administration formulated a unique strategy to stop the theft of water by guarding the 64-km-long distributary round-the-clock earlier this month. Officers of the Police, Revenue, Agriculture, Fisheries, Zila Parishad and Labour Departments guarded the canal in cold and foggy weather for more than a week as part of a r
Farmers’ R-Day tractor rally on; Supreme Court hearing today
Published : Jan 18, 2021, 4:17 am IST
Updated : Jan 18, 2021, 4:17 am IST
The rally will be “very peaceful” and there will be “no disruption” of the Republic Day parade, says Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav
At the Singhu border, where the farmers have been protesting for over 50 days, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav said the farmers will hold the rally and hoist the tricolour on their tractors on Outer Ring Road on Republic Day. (Photo:PTI)
New Delhi: The farmers’ unions protesting against the Centre’s agricultural reform laws on Sunday decided to go ahead with their proposed tractor parade in the national capital on Republic Day. The decision by the unions has come just a day before the Supreme Court will hear the Centre’s petition seeking an injunction against the proposed tractor rally or any other kind of protest that seeks to disrupt the celebrations on January 26.
Updated Jan 17, 2021 | 13:00 IST
This agitation is against policies of the government and not against Delhi, Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Haryana convenor Mandip Nathwan said. Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Haryana convenor Mandip Nathwan  
New Delhi: Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, Haryana convenor Mandip Nathwan on Sunday dispelled rumours that farmers protesting against the new farm laws would unfurl the Tricolour at Red Fort and that tractors and tanks would roll together on Republic Day. It s being said that farmers would unfurl tricolour at Red Fort and tractors and tanks would roll together (on January 26). No such programme has been finalised by the Morcha. Such statements are not in interests of farmers, he said.
Ninth Round of Centre-Farmer Talks Ends in Deadlock Again
The unions, while agreeing that they too wanted the impasse to end, reiterated that the governmentâs proposal was nothing new.
Bharatiya Kisan Unon (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikiat leaves after the ninth round of talks with the government over the new farm laws, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Friday, January 15, 2021. Photo: PTI/Arun Sharma
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New Delhi: Days after the Supreme Court attempted to broker a truce between protesting farmersâ unions and the Centre, the ninth round of discussions held between the two parties on Friday ended in yet another deadlock.