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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

Scrap mining projects in Hasdeo forests: Friends of Hasdeo Aranya

Rights groups and invested experts discuss the Hasdeo mining project controversy in Chhattisgarh

UP may waive loans of over 33,000 farmers, but is that the way to go?

NABARD warns against the dangers of repeated farmer loan waivers

Bombay HC directs Maha gov’t to withdraw pending criminal cases against farmers and social activists

They had been protesting CAA and other government policies; Aurangabad Bench of the HC directs State gov't to file affidavit and submit a report 

Cruel, diabolic, barbaric, gruesome and inhuman: Allahabad High Court on Lakhimpur Kheri massacre

Court made this observation while denying bail to four Lakhimpur Kheri accused; dismissed the bail pleas based on possibility of tampering of evidence or endangering witnesses

Dudhwa women complain to Forest Rights Committee about illegal deforestation by Nepalis

Complaint filed by Tharu Adivasi Mahila Majdoor Kisaan Manch

Can the government explain craters and remnants of explosives in Sukma and Bijapur forests?

Rights groups call upon all citizens groups including women, farmers, Dalits, tribals to question the discovery of the what could be the shells and remnants of explosives in Bastar

BREAKING: SC cancels Ashish Mishra’s bail

The apex court set aside the bail in light of recent attacks upon Lakhimpur Kheri violence witnesses and concerns raised by victims' families

SKM breaks down demand for MSP to masses

As farmers explained the issues with the three farm laws, the SKM now moves to explain the importance of a legal MSP to the public

Another Lakhimpur Kheri witness attacked!

For a second time since Ashish Mishra’s bail, a key witness faces a violent attack

Jal Satyagraha as part of farmers’ MSP week protests

Eager to demand their dues, farmers part submerge in river water near villages and organise seminars in cities

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

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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.