Articles Written by Manoj Kumar

India’s top court orders stay on farm laws that riled growers

By Manoj Kumar, Suchitra Mohanty 4 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute New Delhi | Reuters — India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered an indefinite stay on the implementation of new agricultural laws that have triggered widespread protest from farmers, saying it wanted to protect farmers and would hear their objections. For more than a month, tens of thousands of farmers have camped on the outskirts of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Farmers protest across India against Modi’s farm market reforms

By Manoj Kumar, Nigam Prusty, rajendra-jadhav December 9, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi/Mumbai | Reuters — Farmers’ protests against new laws liberalizing agricultural markets spread across India on Tuesday, as farm organizations called for a nationwide strike after inconclusive talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. In eastern and western states, farmers blocked roads and squatted on railway tracks, delaying hordes of people getting to work, […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

By Aditi Shah, Manoj Kumar May 10, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi | Reuters — A day after U.S. retail giant Walmart struck its largest deal with a big ticket investment in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, a right-wing Hindu group that fears small traders will suffer staged a protest in New Delhi calling for the deal to be scrapped. Walmart said on Wednesday it would […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

India toughs it out in WTO food-stockpiling dispute

By Manoj Kumar, Tom Miles November 5, 2014

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi/Geneva / Reuters — India defied the world on Wednesday in a row over food stockpiling that has crippled attempts to reach a global trade agreement, raising doubts that backroom talks can reach a compromise before a Group of 20 summit this month. At the end of July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pulled the […] Read more

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India’s top court orders stay on farm laws that riled growers

Farmers protest across India against Modi’s farm market reforms

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

India toughs it out in WTO food-stockpiling dispute

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