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Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers
While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard
Agri Workers’ Tiny Wage Rise Wiped Out by Inflation
In the past five years, agri workers’ wage has increased by only about Rs.15 per year.
Bank Employees to Go on Strike for a Day on Nov 19 Against ‘Growing Attacks’
The industrial action, which is expected to be joined by lakhs of employees, thereby affecting banking services across the country, will also see the raising of a host of other non-financial demands, an AIBEA leader told NewsClick on Tuesday.
Agra: Shopkeepers, artisans near Taj Mahal face bleak future
Left in the lurch after court order barring commercial activities within 500 meters of Taj Mahal, many of them run small businesses that have been handed down over generations
In pictures: Apples rot in Pulwama after a ruinous week of highway blockage
After thousands of trucks were stuck on the Kashmir - Jammu highway recently, bringing hundreds of crores worth of Kashmiri apples on the verge of decay, pictures have emerged showing orchards littered with rotting apples.
Reduced Share of States in Division of Central Taxes Can Have Adverse Impact on Welfare Programs
Most of the discussion on budgets in India is...
Govt ‘Favouring’ Private Telcos, ‘Ignoring’ BSNL: Trade Unions
The Centre is silent on the launch of BSNL’s much-delayed 4G services.
Corporate tax cuts: Revenue lost could have funded important welfare projects
Amount could have doubled the budget for 20 crucial ministries and departments
‘Self-reliance for Poor and State Support for Business is the New Motto’—Jean Dreze
The noted economist and activist says the goal of public policies should be to improve people’s lives instead of being swayed by the interests of the privileged few.
Banks write off about Rs 10 lakh crore in last five financial years
Highest number of wilful defaulters reported during 2020-21
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Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
Gender and Sexuality
When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
The women India continues to ignore
It is 76 years into the adoption of the Indian Constitution. However, the fundamental promises of equality and dignity remain elusive for many communities - none more so than Dalit women. What is even starker is the sheer indifference of institutions towards their plight. This piece aims to highlight how the understanding of “women” does not mechanically encompass Dalit women and accentuate the underlying forces that precludes the empowerment of women from the most downtrodden sections of Indian society.
Politics
The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction
Minorities
Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team
The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted