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Protest decision of Union Government to Scrap 11% Import Duty on Raw Cotton: AIKS

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has called upon all farmers to launch an intense agitation against the Modi government

22 Organisations protest against imposition of Section 144 in Sangrur

A most unwarranted ban on democratic protests was imposed...

UP: Farmers Accuse Govt of Betrayal Over Poll Promises, Will Soon Launch a Movement

UP Energy Minister Arvind Kumar Sharma made it clear in the state Assembly that the government will not provide free electricity to the farmers, going against BJP's poll promises during the Assembly elections this year.

Why Punjab Farmers are Protesting Against Bhagwant Mann Government

It’s a two-front battle for Punjab’s farmers, against the Centre and the state’s Aam Aadmi Party government. Both have made promises to farmers that they have still not kept.

Lakhimpur Kheri case: Supreme Court issues notice to UP government on Ashish Mishra’s bail plea

Matter to be heard on September 26; high court had previously dubbed the killings as "cruel and inhuman"

Andhra Pradesh: Farmers Losing Fertile Lands for a Pittance

Fertile lands have been acquired by the state government to construct a national highway project running between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

West Bengal: Awareness of Rights Under FRA Brings Tribal, Forest Communities Closer

There's growing political consciousness, thanks to campaigns and marches in over 12 districts led by the newly formed Banadhikar O Prakriti Bachao Adivasi Mahasabha.

At Delhi Seminar, SKM Leaders Call for Next Phase of Farmers’ Movement

Recalling various anecdotes during the year-long farmers’ protest against the repealed farm laws, the leaders spoke of the unmet demands and called for more united struggles.

Farmers reach Jantar Mantar as Delhi borders witness massive jams

Each person and every vehicle is being checked throughly at the Singhu border.

Lakhimpur Kheri: Farmers begin 75-hour protest demanding Ajay Mishra’s sacking

Mishra’s son Ashish, is a key accused in the killings of farmers in October last year; Ashish is out on bail, Mishra is still a Union Minister

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Protest decision of Union Government to Scrap 11% Import Duty on Raw Cotton: AIKS

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has called upon all farmers to launch an intense agitation against the Modi government

Broken State, Divided People: PUCL releases report of Independent People’s Tribunal on Manipur

A damning account of systemic governance failure, ethnic violence, and the urgent need for justice and reconciliation in Manipur (2023–2025)

NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: A brazen exercise in white-washing the ‘crimes’ of the Hindu Mahasabha & RSS

In this detailed essay, exposing the five falsehoods behind the NCERT’s recent module on Partition, the author, a historian and writer in fact exposes the axis of the far right, Hindu and Muslim, Hindu Mahasabha, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Jinnah, and the collusion with the British that got India Partitioned

EXCLUSIVE: Solid empirical evidence of tampering in Voter’s List mustn’t let us forget EVM Manipulations: Computer Expert Madhav Deshpande

Only because now we have solid empirical evidence of unparalleled tampering of voter list (what he dubs as ‘vote theft’) we must not think that the EVM integrity is not in question anymore, says VFD expert, Madhav Deshpande

Journalists’ bodies strongly condemn sedition charges against Siddharth Varadarajan, Karan Thapar of The Wire

Both the Press Club of India and the Indian Women Press Corps alleged that the Assam Police unleashed vindictive actions against the journalists through the Crime Branch

Liberty on Hold: Delays turn the promise of justice into punishment

“The right to a speedy trial, now firmly entrenched in our constitutional jurisprudence under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, is not an abstract or illusory safeguard. It is a vital facet of the right to personal liberty and cannot be whittled down merely because the case arises under a special statute.”

Thousands of discrepancies in UP Voters Lists of 2022, widespread fraud alleges Akhilesh Yadav, former UP chief minister

On Monday, August 18, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav alleged widespread, evidence driven, voter discrepancies in voters lists of the state, also stating that his party had approached the ECI about these in 2022, soon after the state assembly polls but which had been simply ignored by the poll body. He was joined later in the day by SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav who questioned the motives of the government and ECI while further detailing these gross irregularities and illegalities in Adityanath-ruled UP

Indian tricolour & the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

RSS-BJP rulers have called upon Indians to unfurl Tricolour, our national flag on the eve of 79th Independence Day of India. In RSS-BJP ruled states this is now a “must” for madrasas and some Mosques.