Farmers protest

Farmers in India have vowed to intensify their months-long protest against laws aimed at liberalising agriculture as tensions flare a day after nine people were killed in northern Uttar Pradesh state’s Lakhimpur Kheri district. The Uttar…

Indian police and paramilitary have blocked roads leading to the capital, New Delhi to prevent protesting farmers from entering as the finance minister prepares to deliver the government’s annual budget in parliament. The security forces…

Thousands of Indian farmers marched overnight to reinforce protesting colleagues camping out on the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi, to press the government to withdraw three new farm laws that they say will hurt their livelihoods.…

Leaders of India’s farmers’ union have rejected an offer from the Indian government to suspend contentious agricultural laws for 18 months and set up a committee to look into their concerns about the legislation that have triggered the…