'You strangulated the city, now want to come inside': Supreme Court's rebuttal to farmer protests - Advocate Ajay Choudhary, appearing for the farmer unions said in defence that it was the police and not the farmers who were blocking the highways.
Amid war of words, Koo is India s answer to Twitter
#kooapp was the top Twitter trend in India on Wednesday with nearly 21,000 posts, followed by #BanTwitter.
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Updated: Feb 10, 2021, 08:18 PM IST
As the Indian government and social media giant Twitter locked horns with each other over the former ordered Twitter to remove more than 1,100 accounts and posts which it says are spreading misinformation about widespread protests by farmers against new agricultural laws, many Indian politicians and users are joining the indigenous Twitter-like social media platform Koo launched last year.
Koo had won the Aatmanirbhar App challenge. The app was developed by Aparameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka. The app is available in several languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Odiya and Assamese.
DNA Special: How farmers protest has been hijacked by political opportunists, Khalistanis
Whenever a movement deviates from its purpose or is hijacked by anti-social elements, the Opposition takes advantage of such a situation.
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Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 06:31 AM IST
Since Thursday night, Ghazipur border (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border) has become the centrestage of the farmers agitation. Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who is spearheading the movement, had on Thursday that the agitation wouldn t ened, no matter what. Tension at the border has increased even as the Ghaziabad administration is trying to remove the farmers from the protest site.
Hundreds of farmers gathered at a Muzaffarnagar town on Friday for the Mahapanchayat in support of the BKU-led protest at the Ghazipur border. The farmers at the Mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar have decided that they will begin proceeding towards the Ghazipur border to support and strengthen the farmers movement the
Farm laws: 10th round of talks between Centre, farmer leaders underway in Delhi
On January 12, the Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the Centre s three farm laws. Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh arrive at Vigyan Bhawan for a meeting with union agriculture minister over new farm laws in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: IANS)
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Updated: Jan 20, 2021, 04:20 PM IST
The tenth round of talks between farmer unions and the Central government over the three farm laws began at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Wednesday. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Union Minister Piyush Goyal, among others, were present at the meeting. The talks were earlier scheduled for January 19 (Tuesday) and were later postponed to Wednesday.
Centre ready to put new farm laws on hold for about 18 months, says Agricultural Minister Narendra Singh Tomar - "I feel that talks are progressing in the right direction and there is a possibility of finding a resolution on January 22," Tomar added.