Bengaluru News- November 19, 2018

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Weather at 8:50: A cool 22 degrees, with a mild 16 km/hr wind and 94% humidity.

Hundreds of sugarcane farmers arrive in city to stage protest

Hundreds of sugarcane farmers from Belagavi district arrived in Bengaluru city to stage a protest, demanding minimum support price and clearance of arrears. Security has been tightened around Majestic and Vidhana Soudha, traffic may be affected.

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Fuel prices today: Petrol sits at Rs. 77.13/litre and Diesel sits at Rs. 71.77/litre

It's no honking Monday Bengaluru!

March only till Freedom Park

The Bengaluru Police havegiven permission for farmers to march from Majestic to Freedom Parkbut denied permissionto march from Freedom Park to Vidhana Soudha.

KSRP on standby

Five platoons of the Karnataka State Reserve Police with water canons and tear gas shells on standby.

Traffic jam on Seshadri Road

More farmers arrive

Farmers march towards Freedom Park

Karnataka's sugarcane crisis explained

The sugarcane crisis seems to have touched boiling point in Karnataka. A mix of unsold inventory and overdue payments have forced farmers to launch a stir, reaching as far as Bengaluru and planning to lay siege to the Vidhana Soudha

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Police put up barricades at Freedom Park

Kumaraswamy asks sugarcane farmers to have 'patience'

Even as thousands of farmers hit the streets of Bengaluru in protest, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday sought “some more time” for the crop loan waiver to be implemented.

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Massive traffic jams across city

Massive traffic jams reported at JC Road, Rashtriya Vidyalaya Road, K R Market, Corporation Circle, Double Road, Nrupathunga Road, General K S Thimmaiah Road, Richmond Circle, Raja Ram Mohan Roy Road, Race Course Road, Raj Bhavan Road and Infantry Road

Farmers arrive at Freedom Park

Cabinet meeting shortly

The Karnataka Cabinet is likely to meet at Vidhana Soudha in a short while from now.

A protester dressed like Mahatma Gandhi takes part in the march towards Freedom Park

Cabinet meeting begins in Vidhana Soudha

Farmers stir: 'Where were you sleeping for four years?'

A statement made by Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday seems to have triggered the massive protest launched by the sugarcane farmers in Bengaluru on Monday.

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Traffic jam on Richmond Circle