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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
Free-wheeling remarks on freebies
Suddenly the country is abuzz with freebies.The media resounding...
Endless Wait of 60 million Senior Citizens for Pensions
The most important support needed by elderly persons is...
‘Grossly inadequate’: NREGA allocation 0.29% of GDP, World Bank recommended 1.6%
A civil society tracker, seeking to periodically analyse the...
Dhinkia: Betel plantation destruction hits local economy
With land being transferred, allegedly without consent of villagers for a "development project, and alleged police pressure, the future appears bleak
Modi’s RBI and its myopic monetary measures
After demonetization, GST and Covid, India is still limping to a new economic normal
SBI levels bank fraud of ₹ 22,842 crore against ABG shipyard
Opposition Congress condemns the government for failing to act on this scam flagged as early as 2018
Air India sale: The making of One Lakh Crore scam?
Need for an in-depth and impartial investigation into favourable concessions given to new owners
CEL sale, a threat to national security: Employees
The disinvestment is on hold but employee unions fear the sale of the profit-making PSU to an inexperienced bidder
UP: Weavers persist battle for fixed rate electricity subsidy
Powerloom workers submitted a memorandum to authorities, tired of over-the-top bills from the electricity department
Kuch ka saath aur Cronies ka Vikas
Economic gaps continue to grow as the very richest amass unprecedented levels of wealth
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
The university has agreed to implement the students’ union constitution by May 15, 2027, and conduct elections under Lyngdoh Committee guidelines
India
Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
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India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
In Karnataka, during the pandemic and lockdown, mid-day meals in government schools and anganwadis under the National Food Security Act (2013) [1], shut down indefinitely [2,3] amidst growing concerns about how this would affect vulnerable communities. In spite of demands, the state government has not yet undertaken a detailed post pandemic and lockdown survey to identify the immediate and long-term interventions to address and prevent malnutrition. Several visits have been made by civil society organisations, students, nutritionists and academics to different districts of Karnataka, during and after the Covid-19 pandemic and this commentary gives a broad overview of the observations made. There is a need for an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study.
India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims
India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
Rule of Law
2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
The Court holds that failure to identify who inflicted the fatal injuries does not absolve the accused under Section 149 IPC, relying on evidence of their participation in an armed mob that assaulted the victim, Monish
