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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

SC orders eviction of millions of forest dwellers, FRA threatened

If the 21 states summoned by court follow the...

Eviction of 1 Million Adivasis: Centre must issue Ordinance

Supreme Court Order for Eviction of a million forest...

Ensure recognition of all community, individual forest rights of STs, OTFDs; single, married women

Civil rights organizations Community Forest Rights-Learning and Advocacy process...

CAB row: Tripura police charges three tribal leaders with sedition

The indigenous Borok people of Tripura and their human...

Govt lawyers absent for FRA hearing as millions of tribals inch closer to froced eviction

Central government lawyers remained absent as Supreme Court inched...

Has the government decided to sacrifice Forest Rights Act to benefit corporates?

Opposition leaders, tribal activists and people’s organisations said that...

Adivasi, Dalit Villagers File Suit In Jharkhand High Court Against Land Acquisition For Adani Power Plant

Sixteen residents of four villages in Jharkhand’s eastern district...

Resurgence and resistance: Convention in TISS, Mumbai celebrates the stories of Adivasi women

Fourteen Adivasi women came together on stage to celebrate...

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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