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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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From treating Adivasi communities to being branded an instigator: Odisha jails doctor Randall Sequeira

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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.

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

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?

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