-The Telegraph New Delhi: Prices of farm produce remained high and stocks of vegetables and milk precarious in Cities across northern and central India as the ongoing farmers' strike across several states entered its fourth day. The June 1-10 boycott of wholesale markets - called "Gaon Bandh" or "Kisan Avkaash" - has been called by 172 farmer organisations in eight states to demand minimum support prices at one-and-a-half times the cost of...

-The Telegraph Ludhiana: Six peasant bodies in Punjab on Monday said they would walk out of the ongoing 10-day farmers' strike across several states following reports about minor clashes between some protesters and milkmen over the past two days. The associations said they would discontinue their participation in the June 1-10 agitation from Wednesday onwards to avoid dispute. "The protests have been peaceful so far. In several places farmers set up shops to...

-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The prices of vegetables have gone up by 10 to 15 per cent in some Cities as farmers belonging to a coalition of 104 farmer organisations have stopped supplying vegetables and milk to urban areas sporadically hitting their availability. “The impact of the farmer agitation is more or less felt in 7-8 States, mostly in the north and central India,” said K V Biju, national coordinator...

-Livemint.com Farmer unions are divided over whether to inconvenience Cities with their protests, and as a result the strikes have been limited to a few regions in Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra New Delhi: The ongoing protests by farmers attempting to restrict the supply of milk and fresh produce to Cities has highlighted differences between farmer unions on modes of protest, especially on the question of whether to risk rattling urban...

-The Indian Express The bullet train project, planned after discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, is being built with a Rs 88,000-crore soft loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Palghar: As politicians across party lines gathered on stage together in Palghar on Sunday calling for the ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project to be cancelled, they repeatedly cited the word ‘vikas’, qualifying it with the...