{"id":26714,"date":"2021-01-13T02:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/indian-court-suspends-new-agriculture-laws-after-mass-protests"},"modified":"2021-01-13T02:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:23:31","slug":"indian-court-suspends-new-agriculture-laws-after-mass-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26714","title":{"rendered":"Indian court suspends new agriculture laws after mass protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealed<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s supreme court has suspended a series of controversial new agriculture laws that had prompted hundreds of thousands of farmers to stage a months-long protest in Delhi over fears their livelihoods were at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Since November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/nationwide-farmers-strike-shuts-down-large-parts-of-india\">upwards of half a million farmers had marched to the peripheries of Delhi<\/a> and occupied roads and highways going into the capital, setting up a 24-hour protest camp and refusing to move until the new laws were repealed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/indian-court-suspends-new-agriculture-laws-after-mass-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealedIndia\u2019s supreme court has suspended a series of controversial new agriculture laws that had prompted hundreds of thousands of farmers to stage a mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,653,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-farming","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions\/26715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}