"agriculture"

Modi said the government has taken various decisions for the benefit of 12 crore small and marginal farmers.

"The entire world can see the difficulties faced by Indian farmers. But the government in Delhi is unable to understand the pain of the farmers," Gandhi said

Sitharaman defends accounting of govt expenditure while stressing that revenue statements have become a lot more transparent.

To provide expenditure support to small and marginal farmers, the President said almost Rs 1,13,000 crore have been directly transferred to their bank accounts.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a pro-farmer body, has given a nationwide call for a struggle from January 23 to 26, including rallies to Raj Bhavans (governor houses) in states.

Tourism Minister V Srinivas Goud said farm operations had increased significantly due to the proactive measures of the State government including construction of numerous irrigation projects.

Nagula Gangaram, popularly known as ‘Chinni Krishnudu’ is the proud owner of a ‘Grain Bank’ of mind-boggling 110 varieties of paddy

“Although Covid-19 did act as a deterrent, but we have been able to achieve all the programmes planned for 2020 Year of AI,” Ranjan said.

Farmers were "annadaata", said the actor-turned-politician, who earlier deputed a party delegation to express solidarity with the agitating farmers near Delhi

“We have to think of ways to give poor children access to a device that enables them to access classes (may be pre-recorded) and work on improving internet penetration,” he said stressing the need to spend more on healthcare and education.

"As far as exports are concerned, some sectors have done wonderfully well. Even during the slowdown, agriculture exports and pharmaceutical exports went up," he said at an event organised by industry body PHDCCI.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Secretary SK Gupta emphasised that the regulator has made all-out efforts to ensure that price of radiowaves is "reasonable and market-friendly"

Farmers have been protesting at the borders of the national capital for over a week now against the three farm laws.

He asked TRS cadre to directly participate in the bandh and appealed to people of Telangana State to make the bandh a success and stand by the farmers.

Undeterred by the winter chill, thousands of farmers have stayed put at various border points of Delhi for the past nine days as part of their protest against the Centre's farm laws.

The festival will also witness a session on Make in North East which will have investors in the NER such as NRL, Patanjali, ITC etc will share their experience of investment in the region.

Farmers remained at Chilla border where police have been deployed on both the Delhi as well as Noida side in huge numbers, prohibiting the protestors from proceeding

The former UP chief minister also accused the government of giving false promises of doubling income of farmers.

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday had invited leaders of farmer unions for talks on Tuesday, instead of December 3, citing the COVID-19 pandemic and cold.

The Narendra Modi-led NDA government has set a target of doubling farmers' income by 2022.