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The 2024 Indian farmers' protest is the second round of continuous protests and road blockades initiated by farmers in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana on 13 February 2024, primarily located at Punjab's Shambhu border. [13]
A protest on 3 October 2021 in Lakhimpur Kheri resulted in a number of deaths. [218] In November 2021, farmers stopped the screening of a movie in five cinema halls in Hoshiarpur, disgruntled that Akshay Kumar had not come out in support. [219] A farmer's protest on 5 November turned violent and a MP's car window was smashed. [220]
Global analysts cut their forecasts of India's real GDP growth rate for the financial year 2016–17 by 0.5 to 3% due to demonetisation. [147] [148] India's GDP in 2016 is estimated to be US$2.25 trillion, hence, each 1 per cent reduction in growth rate represents a shortfall of US$22.5 billion (₹1.54 trillion) for the Indian economy. [149]
The protests resulted in thousands of arrests and 27 deaths as of 27 December 2019. [102] [65] Two 17-year-old minors were among those reported to have been killed due to police firing during a live ammunition on protesters in Assam. [103] On 19 December, the police issued a complete ban on protests in several parts of India.
The sit-in protests were organized at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi in January 2023, making the sexual harassment allegations against Bhushan public. After an assurance that the Central Government will form a committee to look into the allegations, the protests were called off in January 2023. The report by the committee was submitted on 5 April ...
The Shaheen Bagh protest was a peaceful sit-in protest in Delhi, India, that began on 15 December 2019 and lasted until 24 March 2020. The protest was led by women who blocked a major road [ d ] at Shaheen Bagh using non-violent resistance 24×7 .
The 2021 Farmers' Republic Day protest was a protest on 26 January 2021 at Delhi. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Part of the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest . The protestors deviated from the parade to take the parade towards Red Fort . [ 5 ]
On 25 March 2023, about 500 people rallied to protest crackdowns targeting Sikhs in Punjab, India at the Consulate General of India in Vancouver, Canada. Moninder Singh a spokesman for the British Columbia Gurdwara Council said, “We're here to show our dissent, our displeasure against the Indian state for this suspension of civil liberties ...