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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]
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]
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]
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.
2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra; 2006 Indian anti-reservation protests; 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement; 2011 land acquisition protests in Uttar Pradesh; 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting; 2016 Indian general strike; 2017 Nagaland protests; 2018 Tamil Nadu protests for Kaveri water sharing; 2019 India doctors' strike; 2019 ...
The first demonetisation of India was carried out in the year 1946 when, under the then Governor General of India, Field Marshal Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, the Reserve Bank of India demonetised notes of ₹500, ₹1000, and ₹10,000 in order to check black market operations and tax evasions. This was done via 2 ordinances.
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 first large protests occurred on 8 January 2017, when several groups, organised largely via social media, conducted a protest at the Marina beach in Chennai to revoke the ban on jallikattu which was imposed in 2014. These groups also demanded that PETA be banned from India. [15] The protests soon gained momentum and spread all over Tamil ...