People shout anti-farmers slogans and wave India s flags as police officers try to stop them, at a site of the protest against farm laws at Singhu border near New Delhi, India January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
SINGHU, India (Reuters) - An Indian state blocked mobile internet across most of its districts on Friday, following clashes between protesting Indian farmers and groups of men shouting anti-farmer and pro-police slogans.
Mobile internet in 15 of 22 districts in Haryana state bordering the capital New Delhi will be unavailable until 1700 local time on Saturday, according to a circular from the state government.
Authorities used tear gas and batons on Friday to break up the clashes at Singhu in Haryana, one of several protest sites near Delhi.
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DHAKA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bangladesh will step up wheat purchases from Ukraine to make up for any shortfall in supplies from Russia which has announced plans to impose a higher export tax on the grain from March 1, a senior Dhaka-based government official told Reuters.
Russia’s economy minister announced the plans on Friday, in another push to curb a rise in domestic food prices triggered by the COVID-19 crisis.
“We are communicating with Ukraine to import wheat,” said Mosammat Nazmanara Khanum, the top civil servant at the country’s food ministry.
Under a diplomatic deal, Russia was supposed to export 400,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh in the current fiscal year to June. Moscow has so far supplied 200,000 tonnes of wheat to Dhaka.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is likely to announce a five-year plan to cut expensive vegetable oil imports worth $10 billion a year in next week’s federal budget by providing farmers with financial incentives to switch to oilseeds from grains, said three senior government officials.
A vendor fries paani puri , a traditional Indian snack, in an alley at a slum area in Kolkata, India February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files
Higher oilseed production in India, the world’s biggest buyer of cooking oils, will cut palm oil imports from Malaysia and Indonesia and trim soyoil and sunflower oil purchases from Brazil, Argentina, Russia and Ukraine.
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NEW DELHI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - India is likely to announce a five-year plan to cut expensive vegetable oil imports worth $10 billion a year in next week’s federal budget by providing farmers with financial incentives to switch to oilseeds from grains, said three senior government officials.
Higher oilseed production in India, the world’s biggest buyer of cooking oils, will cut palm oil imports from Malaysia and Indonesia and trim soyoil and sunflower oil purchases from Brazil, Argentina, Russia and Ukraine.
The officials, who asked not to be named as the discussions are still private, said the plan could dramatically cut India’s import bills.
Thousands of Indian farmers protesting against agricultural reforms on Tuesday overwhelmed police and stormed into the historic Red Fort complex in New Delhi after tearing down barricades and driving tractors through roadblocks.