Indian PM Narendra Modi to repeal farm laws after year of protests

The back down is a huge victory for the farmers who have fought hard to see off the black laws' designed to modernise the archaic agricultural sector

Narendra Modi has announced he will repeal three contentious farm laws that prompted a year of protests and unrest in India, in one of the most significant concessions made by his government.

In a huge victory for India's farmers, who had fought hard for the repeal of what they called the black laws', the prime minister announced in an address on Friday morning that we have taken the laws back".