A land-owning class, the Jats are a powerful community and account for 28 per cent of Haryana's population. The time, they believe, has now come for them to take revenge. IMAGE: Congress leader......
Unemployment, farmers' demand for a legal guarantee to minimum support price, the Agnipath scheme, and law and order are some of the key issues in the high-stakes Haryana assembly polls slated for......
Eyeing a third consecutive term in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released its manifesto for the assembly polls, promising a Rs 2,100 monthly assistance for women, two lakh......
Ahead of the Haryana Assembly polls, the Congress on Wednesday announced seven guarantees, including the promises of a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) and a caste survey, if voted......
Observing that farmers' protest should not be politicised, the Supreme Court on Monday constituted a high-powered committee headed by former Punjab and Haryana high court judge Justice Nawab Singh......
The government on Wednesday raised the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy by 5.35 per cent to Rs 2,300 per quintal for the 2024-25 kharif marketing season. Photograph: Rajendra Jadhav/Reuters......
During the last few weeks, the Indian wheat market has been all agog with talk of an imminent relaxation in import norms to allow the country to import the grain — after a gap of six years......
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday pledged to make 30 million ‘Lakhpati Didis’, up from the 10 million rural women who have already achieved the feat. Photograph: Shrikant......
The protesting farmers’ main demand to legalise the minimum support price (MSP) regime has divided opinion. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters One school of thought says it would lead to crop......
If states have to fall in line with MSPs declared by political parties, they will have to do so in violation of central order or bear the full expense of the surplus procured at above MSP rates.......