Lathicharge On Farmers

Top Haryana officials, including the Karnal district collector, met farmer leaders today over the August 28 lathicharge that left at least 10 persons injured. The use of force against the protesters last week had sparked a furore.

Protesting farmers decided to pitch tents outside the government offices in Haryana's Karnal as talks with the state on their demand justice for victims of August 28 lathicharge -- failed. The police earlier used water cannons on the farmers.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday offered to feed his Haryana counterpart ML Khattar laddoos - but only if he repealed the three farm laws that have triggered waves of furious protests from farmers across the country.

Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said the police action against protesting farmers in Haryana's Karnal is a kind of "Talibani mentality".

Farmers blocked roads and highways in Punjab for two hours on Sunday in protest against the lathicharge on peasants in Haryana.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday termed the lathicharge on farmers in Haryana's Karnal a "government-sponsored attack" and said such a "vicious assault" was not only unacceptable but outright condemnable.

Haryana's main opposition Congress Tuesday demanded Manohar Lal Khattar's apology over the alleged police lathicharge on farmers in Hisar on Sunday when they protested against the Chief Minister during the inauguration of a hospital.

The BJP-Jannayak Janata Party government in Haryana has opened negotiations with farmers' bodies to look into their demands after hundreds of cultivators - protesting against three Central government ordinances - clashed with police in Pipli of Kurukshetra district on Thursday.

Hundreds of farmers protesting against three farm-related ordinances of the central government were lathicharged by the police in Haryana's Kurukshetra a day after they ignored the state and district administration's warnings and marched towards a rally ground. Farmers from across the state, who were headed to the Pipli protest ground in trucks, we...

Delhi Police personnel on lathicharged members of a 'tractor march', led by ex-Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav, protesting the Centre's proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition Bill in the heart of Delhi on Sunday night.

Angry protests by farmers have spread in Maharashtra as their demand for better prices for sugarcane became louder. Farmers and police battled each other in Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli districts today, after a Diwali respite on Tuesday. A police jeep was set on fire, several state-run buses were damaged and policemen were stoned after they lathicha...

Agitating farmers in Bihar's Aurangabad district set afire the engine of a passenger train in protest against the setting up of a power plant in the area. The farmers raised slogans against what they called an unfair land acquisition policy by the Bihar government and the National Thermal Power Corporation.Earlier in the day, police clashed with th...

Violence broke out in Lucknow after gram rozgar sewaks clashed with the Lucknow police at the Shaheed Samarak, they were protesting after being laid off by the state government.But the protest that was supposed to be a peaceful hunger strike took a violent turn when some of these protestors allegedly threw stones at the police and set some vehicles...

Top Haryana officials, including the Karnal district collector, met farmer leaders today over the August 28 lathicharge that left at least 10 persons injured. The use of force against the protesters last week had sparked a furore.

Protesting farmers decided to pitch tents outside the government offices in Haryana's Karnal as talks with the state on their demand justice for victims of August 28 lathicharge -- failed. The police earlier used water cannons on the farmers.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday offered to feed his Haryana counterpart ML Khattar laddoos - but only if he repealed the three farm laws that have triggered waves of furious protests from farmers across the country.

Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said the police action against protesting farmers in Haryana's Karnal is a kind of "Talibani mentality".

Farmers blocked roads and highways in Punjab for two hours on Sunday in protest against the lathicharge on peasants in Haryana.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday termed the lathicharge on farmers in Haryana's Karnal a "government-sponsored attack" and said such a "vicious assault" was not only unacceptable but outright condemnable.

Haryana's main opposition Congress Tuesday demanded Manohar Lal Khattar's apology over the alleged police lathicharge on farmers in Hisar on Sunday when they protested against the Chief Minister during the inauguration of a hospital.

The BJP-Jannayak Janata Party government in Haryana has opened negotiations with farmers' bodies to look into their demands after hundreds of cultivators - protesting against three Central government ordinances - clashed with police in Pipli of Kurukshetra district on Thursday.

Hundreds of farmers protesting against three farm-related ordinances of the central government were lathicharged by the police in Haryana's Kurukshetra a day after they ignored the state and district administration's warnings and marched towards a rally ground. Farmers from across the state, who were headed to the Pipli protest ground in trucks, we...

Delhi Police personnel on lathicharged members of a 'tractor march', led by ex-Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav, protesting the Centre's proposed amendments to the Land Acquisition Bill in the heart of Delhi on Sunday night.

Angry protests by farmers have spread in Maharashtra as their demand for better prices for sugarcane became louder. Farmers and police battled each other in Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli districts today, after a Diwali respite on Tuesday. A police jeep was set on fire, several state-run buses were damaged and policemen were stoned after they lathicha...

Agitating farmers in Bihar's Aurangabad district set afire the engine of a passenger train in protest against the setting up of a power plant in the area. The farmers raised slogans against what they called an unfair land acquisition policy by the Bihar government and the National Thermal Power Corporation.Earlier in the day, police clashed with th...

Violence broke out in Lucknow after gram rozgar sewaks clashed with the Lucknow police at the Shaheed Samarak, they were protesting after being laid off by the state government.But the protest that was supposed to be a peaceful hunger strike took a violent turn when some of these protestors allegedly threw stones at the police and set some vehicles...