NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government on Saturday invited leaders of protesting farmers' unions for talks next week to address concerns about new laws which seek to deregulate the country's large agriculture sector.
Farmers arrived in trucks, buses and tractors on Saturday at Delhi's Singhu border with Haryana state and blocked the main northern highway into the capital. They chanted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and waved the red, yellow and green flags of farmer's unions.
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