-The Hindu They have not got many of the benefits that the new laws threaten to take away. As the movement against the agricultural reform laws builds towards its one year anniversary, it is clear that the bulk of farmers in eastern Indian States have not been as motivated to join the agitation as their counterparts in the northwest, as they have not even experienced many of the benefits that the laws...
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Centre imposes stock limits on edible oils to soften the prices of edible oils in the domestic market
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution The Department of Food and Public Distribution in a landmark decision has imposed stock limits on Edible Oils and Oilseeds for a period upto 31st March, 2022. The Removal of Licensing Requirements, Stock Limits and Movement Restrictions on Specified Foodstuffs (Amendment) Order, 2021 has been issued with immediate effect i.e. from 8th September, 2021.Future trading on Mustard Oil and Oilseeds was...
More »CM KCR announces plan to settle podu lands issue, alternative land to be allotted
-IANS/ TheNewsMinute.com The decision comes in the wake of increasing incidents of conflict between tribals and forest officials. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday, October 9, directed officials to launch an action plan from the third week of October to settle the podu land (shifting agricultural land) issue in the state. The decision comes in the wake of increasing incidents of conflict between tribals and forest officials. KCR made it...
More »Samyukt Shetkari Kamgar Morcha endorses call for Maharashtra bandh
-The Hindu The Congress, the NCP and the Shiv Sena have called for a Maharashtra bandh on October 11 against the killings of the farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri Three days after all three ruling parties in Maharashtra — the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena — called for a State bandh against the killings of the farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, the Samyukt Shetkari Kamgar Morcha...
More »Lakhimpur: SC pulls up UP police over delay in arrests -Utkarsh Anand
-Hindustan Times Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, has been named as an accused in a murder first information report (FIR) lodged on Monday. The court was exceptionally harsh while commenting on the police’s lenient handling of Mishra, although it didn’t name him. The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for not immediately arresting Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister...
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