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Imperative to counter a false narrative

The laws specifically provide layers of protection to our farmers, giving them legal safeguards to counter any unwarranted claims of corporations

Israel's sales pitch to India: Our artillery gun to support 'Make in India'

Business Standard has reviewed the letter, which was signed last Tuesday by Brigadier General Yair Kulas, director of Sibat - the Israeli defence ministry agency in charge of defence exports

Govt invites farmers for talks on Wed, says it has 'open mind' on demands

The agriculture ministry has invited representatives of more than a dozen unions for the meeting at 2 p.m. in Vigyan Bhawan

LIVE: Listen to our 'Mann ki Baat' too, protesting farmers tell PM Modi

Farmers Protest LIVE updates: Unions say they would join talks but want the government to provide legal guarantee for procurement of crops at the Minimum Support Price.

Stop defaming farmers, hold talks on ways to repeal: Badal to Centre

Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said the Centre should stop defaming farmers and hold talks with them on ways to repeal its contentious agriculture laws.

Farmer unions defer call on Centre's fresh talks offer; Tomar still hopeful

Farmer leaders from across India to meet on Wednesday, decide on govt's talk offer; moves being made to dissuade Boris Johnson from attending R-Day as chief guest

Govt writes to farmer unions inviting them for next round of talks

In a letter to 40 union leaders, Union Agriculture Ministry Joint Secretary Vivek Aggarwal said the Centre is making all efforts with 'an open heart' to find an appropriate solution

Centre's new ethanol policy aims at protecting farmers: Nitin Gadkari

Gadkari said the Union government is very well aware of the plight of the sugarcane and paddy growers

Bold reforms have ensured steady FDI flow even during pandemic: FM

Says govt initiated big reforms in agriculture and labour codes

Quiet mediator: Tomar now in the driver's seat amid farmers' protest

Tomar is a mild-mannered man. Never in his life has he been pitchforked into the kind of controversy in which he finds himself

Unable to bear 'farmers' plight', Sikh cleric shoots himself dead

The deceased was rushed to a hospital in Panipat where doctors declared him brought dead

Single window system for approvals likely from March: Piyush Goyal

Goyal said government policies are towards easing compliance requirements of the industry and making everything digital and online

Govt says no winter session due to Covid, plans Budget session early in Jan

The government has conveyed the decision to the opposition

Opposition parties misleading farmers on agri laws: PM Narendra Modi

Modi was speaking after laying foundation stones of a desalination plant, a hybrid renewable energy park, and a fully automated milk processing and packing plant in his home state Gujarat

Opposition parties misleading farmers as part of conspiracy: PM Modi

Farmers gathered near Delhi are being misled as part of a conspiracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.

Panel on divestment approves privatisation of Shipping Corporation

The Core Group of Secretaries on Divestment (CGD), in its meeting on Monday, approved the conditions for privatising the government-owned company that owns a fleet of bulk carriers, crude oil tankers,

Investment will not come in unviable power sector, says R K Singh

The minister said that he is worried about the sustainability (of discoms) because a large number of them are loss making

Farmer leaders as 'extremists': Govt prepares a fallback narrative

Government leaders are talking about the subversive intent of "Urban Naxalites" or of "Khalistanis" alleged to have infiltrated the movement

Modi govt brought in new farm laws to double farmers' income: Anurag Thakur

"The farmers have been given the freedom to sell their products to anybody in the country at any cost," says Thakur

Swiggy partners govt to build 'world's largest' street food vendor project

In the first phase alone, Swiggy will onboard about 36,000 vendors to whom the loan has been disbursed in 125 cities by the government