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Feb
22
2024
By SUNIL KATARIA and ADNAN ABIDI
Police fire tear gas on Indian farmers marching to capital, government offers talks

Police fire tear gas on Indian farmers marching to capital, government offers talks

WORLD
INDIAN farmers demanding higher prices for their produce paused their protest after the government made a new offer to resume talks, hours after police fired tear gas and used water cannons to scatter thousands staging a march to Delhi. The farmers, mostly from the northern state of Punjab, have been demanding higher prices backed by law for their crops. They form an influential bloc of voters Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot afford to anger ahead of general elections due by May. Farmers' leader Sarwan Singh Pandher told reporters they would pause their protest for two days and deliberate their next…
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Sep
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Delhi orders ban on pollutive firecrackers ahead of Diwali to ‘save lives’

Delhi orders ban on pollutive firecrackers ahead of Diwali to ‘save lives’

WORLD
NEHA ARORA and SAURABH SHARMA DELHI authorities ordered a ban on the storage, use and sale of firecrackers in the Indian capital late on Wednesday ahead of the Diwali festival to curb air pollution levels which cause thousands of deaths each year. India is among the most polluted countries in the world, and air quality in Delhi and neighbouring northern states normally begins to deteriorate at the end of September as farmers set off crop fires to prepare for a new sowing season. Delhi recorded some of the worst pollution levels globally in its latest peak pollution period between October…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Protesting Indian farmers vow to amass more supporters outside capital Delhi

Protesting Indian farmers vow to amass more supporters outside capital Delhi

WORLD
DANISH SIDDIQUI MORE than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India's northern Punjab state on Sunday in a show of strength against new farm laws, where union leaders called on supporters to amass outside the capital New Delhi on February 27. Tens of thousands of Indian growers have already been camped outside Delhi for nearly three months, demanding the repeal of the three reform laws that they say will hurt them and benefit large corporations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which introduced the laws last September, has offered to defer the laws but refused to abandon them, arguing that…
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Dec
05
2020
By The African Mirror
India’s multi-billion-dollar food programme is at the heart of farmers’ protests

India’s multi-billion-dollar food programme is at the heart of farmers’ protests

WORLD
MAYANK BHARDWAJ THOUSANDS of Indian farmers angered by farm laws that they say threaten their livelihoods have intensified their protests by blocking highways and camping out on the outskirts of the capital Delhi. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of protesting farmers' unions have held several rounds of talks but have not made any progress in breaking the deadlock over the set of laws passed by parliament in September. Although various farmer unions have supported the protest, the agitation is largely led by the growers of relatively well-off states of Punjab and Haryana in India's north. Every…
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