On Thursday, farmers from Haryana held a protest and blocked the National Highway-22 highway at Pipli, Kurukshetra district against three farm ordinances brought by the Central Government in June, 2020. Amid Covid-19 cases spike in the nation, the Haryana Home and Health ministers urged the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), to cancel the protest either face ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman laid out the third tranche of measures for the agriculture and allied sector aimed at bolstering the pandemic-hit economy. An 11-point action plan for the agriculture was announced on Friday by the Finance Minister as part of PM Narendra Modi’s 20 lakh crore COVID package. The last three of these were ...