Karnataka Farmers Agitation

Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy today performed a delicate act over the ongoing farmers' agitation against the new agricultural laws: On one hand, he asked the Narendra Modi government to "protect India's international reputation" by solving the issue earlier. Yet, the Janata Dal Secular leader also asked the protesters to give Defen...

The BJP plans to hold a huge rally in northern Karnataka's Belagavi district next month as part of its efforts to keep the pressure on the Congress-Janata Dal(Secular) government amid an ongoing farmers' agitation.

Protests continue to rage in Karnataka, with sugarcane farmers from Belagavi insisting that the Congress-Janata Dal(Secular) government fix a respectable adequate minimum support price for their crop in view of falling prices and the glut in production.

After pressure from farmers and opposition parties, the Karnataka government today announced crop loan waiver of up to Rs 50,000 per farmer, that will cost Rs 8,165 crore to the state exchequer.

Demands for a court-ordered ban on a traditional animal-based sport to be lifted; protests on the street; talk of an ordinance to circumvent laws on animal cruelty. Sounds familiar? These are not pro-Jallikattu protests in Tamil Nadu, but an ongoing agitation for the return of Kambala - a traditional buffalo-racing event in neighbouring Karnataka w...

In Karnataka, farmers are threatening to go on an agitation demanding better price for the sugarcane crop.

India's sugar belts are on the boil as anger and desperation spills out on the street as farmers agitate for a higher price for their cane.

The pressure is mounting in Karnataka against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu as directed by the Supreme Court. Complying with the top court's directives, the state government began releasing water late on Saturday night, but this has not gone down well with farmers' groups in Mandya and Mysore districts who continue the agitation they s...

Local farmers staged an agitation in Mandya on Tuesday against the release of water to Tamil Nadu and demanded 'justice' for Karnataka at the Cauvery Regulatory Authority meeting at New Delhi on Wednesday.

Keeping in mind the ongoing state-wide farmers' agitation against acquisition of their land by the state government, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda declared that there will be no forcible acquisition of cultivable land.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy today performed a delicate act over the ongoing farmers' agitation against the new agricultural laws: On one hand, he asked the Narendra Modi government to "protect India's international reputation" by solving the issue earlier. Yet, the Janata Dal Secular leader also asked the protesters to give Defen...

The BJP plans to hold a huge rally in northern Karnataka's Belagavi district next month as part of its efforts to keep the pressure on the Congress-Janata Dal(Secular) government amid an ongoing farmers' agitation.

Protests continue to rage in Karnataka, with sugarcane farmers from Belagavi insisting that the Congress-Janata Dal(Secular) government fix a respectable adequate minimum support price for their crop in view of falling prices and the glut in production.

After pressure from farmers and opposition parties, the Karnataka government today announced crop loan waiver of up to Rs 50,000 per farmer, that will cost Rs 8,165 crore to the state exchequer.

Demands for a court-ordered ban on a traditional animal-based sport to be lifted; protests on the street; talk of an ordinance to circumvent laws on animal cruelty. Sounds familiar? These are not pro-Jallikattu protests in Tamil Nadu, but an ongoing agitation for the return of Kambala - a traditional buffalo-racing event in neighbouring Karnataka w...

In Karnataka, farmers are threatening to go on an agitation demanding better price for the sugarcane crop.

India's sugar belts are on the boil as anger and desperation spills out on the street as farmers agitate for a higher price for their cane.

The pressure is mounting in Karnataka against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu as directed by the Supreme Court. Complying with the top court's directives, the state government began releasing water late on Saturday night, but this has not gone down well with farmers' groups in Mandya and Mysore districts who continue the agitation they s...

Local farmers staged an agitation in Mandya on Tuesday against the release of water to Tamil Nadu and demanded 'justice' for Karnataka at the Cauvery Regulatory Authority meeting at New Delhi on Wednesday.

Keeping in mind the ongoing state-wide farmers' agitation against acquisition of their land by the state government, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda declared that there will be no forcible acquisition of cultivable land.