Farmers' protest LIVE Updates: Centre to hold 4th round of talks with farm leaders today

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• 18 Feb 2024, 02:08 PM

  Due to farmer protests, mobile internet connections have been temporarily suspended in seven districts of Punjab till February 24 midnight.

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 02:08 PM

  Due to farmer protests, mobile internet connections have been temporarily suspended in seven districts of Punjab till February midnight.

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 01:15 PM

  Here’s what farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal said during a press conference at the Shambhu border.

  “On the one hand, they (central government) are showing that they are trying to find a solution by having a conversation with us (farmers), but what we can see is that the government doesn’t have good intentions,” he said.

  February 18, 2024

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 11:23 AM

  The farmer body also held protests at 21 toll plazas in 13 districts in the state, extending support to the farmers' 'Delhi Chalo' call. 

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 10:00 AM

  Amidst the ongoing agitation by farmers demanding legal recognition of Minimum Support Price and implementation of the Swaminathan Committee report including on pricing mechanism, prominent agricultural economist Dr Sardara Singh Johl has said that giving MSP on all crops "is not practical".Dr Johl, a former Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University, said that farmers should adopt the path of negotiation over their demands and also added that they should be allowed to go to Delhi. (ANI)

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 09:59 AM

  "It is our sixth day at the Shambhu border. Today we are also holding fourth round of talks with the government. The government has asked for some time and said that it will discuss the matter with the union ministers and find a solution to it," the committee's general secretary Sarvan Singh Pandher said on Sunday. (ANI)

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 09:37 AM

  Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has announced that farmers will stage dharnas in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand on February 21 to press their demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP. 

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 08:48 AM

  Leaders of the Punjab Farm Union said on Saturday that the government should introduce an ordinance to guarantee farmers the minimum support price (MSP), ahead of a crucial meeting with Union Ministers on Sunday to try and resolve concerns that prompted them to call for a protest march to Delhi.

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 07:24 AM

  The farmers have been demanding a legal guarantee for MSP for crops, implementation of Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pension for farmers, farm debt waiver, among other things.

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 07:24 AM

  BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday announced that farmers will stage dharnas in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand on February 21 to press their demands, including a legal guarantee of MSP, news agency PTI reported.

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 06:52 AM

  Farmers' protest LIVE Updates: Next round of talks on Feb 18

  The next round of talks is expected to take place on Sunday (Feb 18). Union Minister Arjun Munda, said, "We will have a fourth round of talks next Sunday:"

  
• 18 Feb 2024, 06:41 AM

  The Haryana government on Saturday extended the ban on mobile internet and bulk SMS services in seven districts till February 19 in view of the 'Delli Chalo' call given by farmers' organisations. The government had earlier extended the suspension of mobile internet from February 13 till February 15.