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Farmers

News Reports

Massive locust invasion from Pakistan ruins crops in Gujarat, Centre rushes 11 teams to help

OpIndia Staff - 26 December, 2019

Farmers in Gujarat are now worried as they are facing massive locust attack from Pakistan, the neighbouring country the state shares its border with.

Social Media

Cropped video circulated out of context to mock FM Nirmala Sitharaman over onion prices: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2019

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday stated that her replies on the floor of the Lok Sabha are being quoted out of the context to mislead the public.

News Reports

Bajaj sugar mills owe crores of rupees to sugarcane farmers. Is this why Rahul Bajaj ‘afraid’?

OpIndia Staff - 3 December, 2019

Rahul Bajaj, in a recent media event, expressed his 'fears' to HM Amit Shah that people are afraid to criticise the government.

News Reports

‘PoK do, tamatar lo’: Madhya Pradesh farmers offer to resume tomato export to Pakistan, but with some interesting conditions

OpIndia Staff - 29 November, 2019

Pakistan is reeling under economic crisis with prices of daily essentials such as tomatoes hitting the roof

News Reports

Inputs from RSS and farmers association stopped Modi govt from being a part of RCEP, world’s largest free trade agreement

OpIndia Staff - 5 November, 2019

On Monday, India announced that it will not be part of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, which will be the world's largest free trade pact of 16 nations.

News Reports

SP leader Azam Khan faces threat of arrest as 13 FIRs registered against him in land grabbing cases

OpIndia Staff - 18 July, 2019

Rampur police said that criminal case against Azam Khan and Alay Khan was registered after verifying all the facts

Government and Policy

Here are the 5 major decisions taken in the first 24 hours of the new Modi government being sworn in

OpIndia Staff - 1 June, 2019

A day after swearing in, Prime Minister Modi met with the new Cabinet met on Friday and made some key decisions fulfilling the election promises that were made in the manifesto.

Law

PepsiCo sues potato farmers for growing the variety used for Lays Chips

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2019

In a letter sent to Ministry, the activists have said that the farmers have every right to produce and sell a protected variety of seeds and that Pepsico can't claim intellectual property right on it.

Politics

Even if our potatoes get dumped or we die of hunger, we will vote for Modi ji: Potato farmers in Hathras

OpIndia Staff - 18 April, 2019

The farmers said that they had no problem with schemes like demonetisation or GST and that the PM Modi needs more than five years to change the country.

Government and Policy

Prime Minister Modi formally launches PM-Kisan Yojana, 12 crore small farmers to be benefited from the scheme

OpIndia Staff - 24 February, 2019

The NDA government led by PM Narendra Modi had announced the PM-KISAN scheme in the interim Budget 2019-20, under which Rs 6,000 per year will be given in three instalments to 12 crore small and marginal farmers.

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