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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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Feb
17
2021
By The African Mirror
Inspired by protests, India’s women farmers revive their own demands

Inspired by protests, India’s women farmers revive their own demands

WORLD
ANURADHA NAGARAJ AS protests against agricultural reforms catch global attention, India's neglected women farmers are seizing the moment to dust off their own long-standing demands - from land rights and farm credit to grains subsidies. Hundreds of miles from the sit-in demonstrations near the capital, Ponnuthai said the protests were helping her and other women farmers gain recognition - spurring her local collective to draft new petitions for demands first made decades ago. "The protests in Delhi have given us our identity as women farmers," Ponnuthai, who goes by one name, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from her home in…
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Feb
16
2021
By The African Mirror
India’s arrest of activist tied to Greta Thunberg’s movement sparks outrage

India’s arrest of activist tied to Greta Thunberg’s movement sparks outrage

WORLD
CHANDINI MONNAPA and RUPAM JAIN INDIAN politicians and activists on Monday condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of helping edit and distribute an online document that Sweden's Greta Thunberg had promoted in support of farmers protesting in the country. Thunberg had shared a "toolkit" on Twitter which listed ways to help Indian farmers, who have been protesting agricultural reforms they fear will ruin their livelihoods. Over the weekend, police brought Disha Ravi, a leader of the Indian arm of Thunberg's climate crisis-related Fridays for Future movement, to the capital from her home in the southern city of…
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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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