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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

A Mountain That Will Not Bow Down To Corporate Loot

On May 15, 2019 Dadi Kadraka, an activist with...

First Fired Upon, Now Criminal Cases Registered Against Tribals in Madhya Pradesh

The Adivasis of Burhanpur have launched an agitation against...

Songs as Her tool, Sonbhadra Forest Rights leader marches on

This is the story of Rajkumari Bhuiya, the woman...

Twelve villages celebrate Shahadat of Sokalo’s son, Admin on its toes

Sokalo, a human rights defender,  resolves to carry forward...

Defend FRA 2006 “actively”, Forest Rights Organisations urge Govt

Four national platforms of Adivasi and Forest dwellers’ organisations...

Lynching: India’s Shame!

On Friday 5 July, thousands of people had gathered...

Breathing Fire, Mumbaikars urge a callous Tree Authority to save its Forest: Aarey

Braving a torrential downpour and despite the inadequate notice...

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Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?

The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires

Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC

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