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Farmers prepare for a rally against India’s newly passed farm laws ahead of Republic Day at Singhu border near New Delhi on Jan. 25, 2021. (Photo: Reyters/Anushree Fadnavis)

Indian farmers ride caravan of tractors into capitol ahead of Republic Day

Farmers reject government's offer to suspend ag market reforms

By Manoj Kumar January 25, 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes New Delhi | Reuters — Caravans of tractors clogged a key highway in northern India on Monday as tens of thousands of farmers protesting against agriculture reforms streamed into the capital ahead of Republic Day, and police said they were prepared to deal with the crowds. India marks its founding as a republic on Tuesday […] Read more

Farmers participate in a tractor rally against newly passed farm bills, on a highway on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on Jan. 7, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

Crops, Reuters

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

By Manoj Kumar, Suchitra Mohanty January 14, 2021

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

Farmers attend a protest during a nationwide strike against newly passed farm bills at the Singhu border near Delhi on Dec. 8, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis)

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

A Flipkart office in Bangalore in 2014. The e-commerce company, founded in 2007, began by selling books and has now branched out into a wide range of products. (VasukiRao/iStock/Getty Images)

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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Indian farmers ride caravan of tractors into capitol ahead of Republic Day

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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