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Finally, Centre, farmers talk, next meeting on Thursday
Before meeting the farmers, Tomar had said that the government is ready to resolve the farmers issue but talks cannot happen on roads and the farmers needed to sit across the table for the solution of the problem.
The meeting between farmer representatives and the Central government remained inconclusive on Tuesday as both parties failed to come to an understanding. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the meeting was good and the government will continue its dialogue with the protesting farmers. The next dialogue between protesters and the government will taken place on December 3. Farmer representatives said they will continue to explain to the government why the farmers feel that none of the changes introduced in the farm laws will benefit them.
Earlier today, the 32 farm unions accepted Centre’s offer to hold talks as their protest entered its sixth consecutive day. A large contingent of farmers are stationed on several points of entry into Delhi in a bid to convince the Centre to repeal the laws.
The delegations arrived statewise for discussions with farmers from Punjab arriving at Vigyan Bhawan for a dialogue with Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal. Later, the government held meetings with delegations from Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana. Earlier on Sunday, the farmers had rejected the Centre’s offer after the government had stressed them to move to the Burari grounds in New Delhi
Before meeting the farmers, Tomar had said that the government is ready to resolve the farmers issue but talks cannot happen on roads and the farmers needed to sit across the table to find a solution to the problem. The decision to hold talks with farmers have come after the Centre’s decision that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hold talks with farmers. Earlier on Monday, Home Minister Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Tomar met at BJP chief JP Nadda’s residence for a second meeting to resolve the issue.
Addressing the farmers at Ghazipur-Ghaziabad border, Naresh Tikait, the president of Bharatiya Kisaan Union, said the farmers want a final decision on matter. However, some groups are upset with the government’s decision. Punjab Kisan Sangarsh Committee’s joint secretary Sukhvinder S Sabhran said that there are more than 500 groups of farmers in the country, but the Centre has invited only 32 groups for talks.
The protesters have got worldwide support from celebrities, actors, singers and political leaders. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday extended his support to farmers. He said Canada would always be there to defend the rights of the farmers and believe in the process of dialogue. He assured the farmers that he would try to reach out to the Indian authorities to highlight and raise their concerns. The Ministry of External Affairs has not taken Trudeau’s remarks well.
Police detained Bilkis Bano, 82, who emerged as the face of Shaheen Bagh’s anti-Citizenship Act protest, as she was reaching Singhu border to join farmers’ protest. She said she wanted to join the farmers to express her solidarity since she was a farmer’s daughter. She said the government should listen to the farmers.
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The farmers, mostly from Haryana and Punjab, are protesting since last week against the newly passed farm laws. They have been camping in and around Delhi demanding that the laws should be repealed by the Centre.
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Tiger death toll reaches 10 in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu
The death of the 10 tigers including 6 cubs has caused great controversy. The enviornmentalists are demanding a high level inquiry into the ongoing deaths of tiger in Mudumalai, a tiger reserve.
Ten tigers have died over 35 days in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu according to the National Tigers Commission. A team of National Tiger Commission crime Branch went to Ooty to investigate the matter. The team included Central Forest Animal Research Centre Senior Scientist Ramesh Krishna Murthy, Central Forest Animal Crime Prevention Unit South Zone Director Kripa Shankar and Inspector General Murali Kumar.
The death of the 10 tigers including 6 cubs has caused great controversy. The enviornmentalists are demanding a high level inquiry into the ongoing deaths of tiger in Mudumalai, a tiger reserve. The forest department has not been able to find the two mother tigresses of the dead tiger cubs.
As the mother tiger never leaves her cubs more than 200 metres away. An investigation is being conducted. It may be possible the dead tigers may have been hunted. The National tigers Commission crime Branch will investigate the reason for the tiger deaths IN the Nilgiri district forrest area.
After the investigation is over, the team will visit the Chinna Coonoor area. Four tiger cubs had previously died in the area. A tiger cub was found dead in the sgur forest area in China Coonoor in the Nilgiris on September 19. On examining the dead cub the forest veterinarian of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve said he was severely dehydrated.
According to the Forest Secretary Supriya Sahu the cub could not be saved despite restless effort of the team. On November 14 information of the tiger cub’s movement was recieved in the Chinnacoonoor area of Nilgiris.
Immediately a team along with trackers from Muddumalai tiger reserve reserve camped in the region and started monitoring. During the monitoring process it was found there are four cubs in the region. A female tiger was seen by the villagers last month. The cubs were monitored regularly as they thought the cubs might be in the nearby areas.
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Chhattisgarh: Rahul Gandhi says PM Modi also has a remote control but he presses it secretly
The Congress MP said when he questioned PM Modi on Adani in the Lok Sabha and his Lok Sabha membership got cancelled.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched Mukhyamantri Gramin Awas Nyay Yojana in Chhattisgarh through a remote control. He said PM Narendra Modi also has a remote control but he presses it secretly. Rahul Gandhi waved a remote control at the event in Chhattisgarh and said BJPs remote controls are all secret. Gandhi said the Congress party presses the remote control in the open. But the BJP presses secretly and the public sector becomes private and Adaniji gets Mumbai airport.
The Congress MP said when he questioned PM Modi on Adani in the Lok Sabha and his Lok Sabha membership got cancelled. He attacked the BJP government at the Centre after PM Modi addressed a rally in the poll bound Madhya Pradesh and said the Congress party has rusted like iron. PM Modi said Congress would push back Madhya Pradesh in the sick category whereas 1.5 crore people came out of poverty under the BJP rule in the last five years.
According to PM Modi the Congress and its allies have supported the bill out of hesitation and compulsion as they understood the power of Nari Shakti. PM Modi said Modi means the guarantee of fulfilling guarantees. Rahul Gandhi repeated what he had said in the Lok Sabha during his intervention on the women’s reservation bill.
He said there are only 3 OBC bureaucrats working for the government of India. Rahul Gandhi said caste census is the X-ray of Hindustan. The caste census will determine how many Dalits, SC/STs are there. Gandhi said the government is running away from caste census. He promised the congress will do a caste census.
In all Congress ruled states the public is at the centre and the government is not run by Adaniji. Talking to the media on Sunday Rahul Gandhi said he was confident Congress is winning the election in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. In Rajasthan the fight would be close Gandhi predicted.
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Bihar: Dalit woman stripped naked over Rs 1,500 loan, money lender, son booked for assault
The accused have not been arrested so far, and police have initiated a search for them.
In yet another shocking incident, a Dalit woman was assaulted in Bihar’s Patna district by a money lender and his son on Saturday, according to the police. The victim alleged that the accused also urinated on her and tried to disrobe her for not making recurring interest payments on a Rs 1,500 loan that her husband had taken.
According to the victim, Pramod Singh and his son Anshu Singh summoned her to their house on Saturday night mentioning that they had detained her husband and that he would be allowed to go only after the interest on the loan he took from them was fully repaid.
When she reached Singh’s house, her husband was not there. They had lied to her about detaining her husband. The father and son beat her up and tried to disrobe her, and the son also urinated upon her, the woman told the police.
The woman also mentioned that the Rs 1,500 her husband took on loan years ago had already been repaid with interest, but the money lender continued to seek interest from them at regular intervals.
According to reports, police have registered a case against Pramod and Anshu Singh under IPC sections related to assault and misbehaving with a woman, as well as under sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accused have not been arrested so far, and police have initiated a search for them.
Patna Rural SP Imran Masood asserted that the woman was undergoing treatment for her injuries at a primary healthcare centre. The woman’s brother-in-law told The Indian Express that the poor people of the village have been trapped by money lenders and that it is like a goonda bank. He explained that as most of them are illiterate and cannot get loans from banks, they have to depend on these money lenders and face humiliation.
