Farm and Forest

Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS

SKM leaders say the draft seed Bill surrendered the seed sovereignty of India and it is aimed at predatory pricing by corporate monopolies

Van Gujar settlement in Haridwar destroyed by fire, livestock and huts burned to ground

In a shocking incident, almost an entire Van Gujjar settlement has been burned, rendering several families without shelter. The Van Gujjar community is a marginalised, nomadic tribe that has consistently faced eviction notices.

Duddhi By-election focuses on land, women & Adivasi Rights

Vijay Singh Gond's victory empowers AIUFWP's advocacy efforts

Samyukta Kisan Morcha: Appeals to farmers to vote against the BJP

The platform representing several farmer organisations has urged farmers, workers, women and the common man to teach a lesson to the BJP in the 18th Lok Sabha elections

From the farm to the poll booth, the BJP has lost farmer trust

Rajasthan, UP, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra, simmer with farmers’ anger as polling dates for other states in the northern belt come closer.

Farmers’ demand to ‘Quit’ WTO explained: Elections 2024

On February 26, 2024, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM)...

AIKS, Karshaka Sangham and rubber farmers take on tyre cartel; file Intervention Application (IA) in Supreme Court

Legal battle against monopoly tyre companies represents the interest of millions of rubber farmers, states a press release issued today

Unseasonal rains and hailstorms ruin acres of crops in Maharashtra, cause agrarian distress in Vidharba & Marathwada

After months of acute drought, unseasonal rains and hailstorms have wreaked havoc with crops in Vidharba and Marathwada. Regional print media and some independent channels are dotted with accounts of the death of a woman labourer and the acute agrarian distress in Maharashtra’s Vidharba and Marathwada region causing massive damage to crops in both regions. Vidharbha votes on April 19 and 26.

All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) lists out their demands before the Lok Sabha election 2024

From repealing the contended Forest Conservation (Amendment) Act 2023 to ensuring land titles for landless women, and demanding withdrawal of the 4 Labour Codes to increasing minimum living wage of Rs. 400 per day, AIUFWP has put out a long list of demands from the parties before the general election

Indians root for religious pluralism, farmer protests resonate, 55 % of Indians believe corruption has increased: CSDS-Lok Niti Pre-poll Survey

An overwhelming majority of respondents, as high as 79 %, root for the idea of India, that India belongs to all religions equally, not just Hindus while a staggering 58 % identify with the farmers protests and a significant 55 per cent of Indians believe that corruption has shot up in the past five years. These are the findings of the CSDS-Lokniti 2024 pre-poll survey released on April 11

Farmers protests: Court reprimands Punjab government on filing ‘zero-FIR’ for case of alleged police brutality

The Punjab and Haryana High Courts have questioned the Punjab government on Zero FIR being filed despite a clear statement by the victim.

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Months ahead of polls, Bengal politics takes a communal plunge –minority and majority -- with electronic and print media playing up both events: the foundation laying ceremony of the “new Babri Masjid” and the “Gita Recital” at the Brigade Parade Ground, Kolkata

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Bettina Bäumer’s Inclusive Philosophy Is What We Need in Such Times

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In India, Wealth Inequality among highest in the world, top 1% holds 40% wealth: Study

On the global stage, the top 0.001% own three times more than the poorest half of humanity combined, said the 2026 World Inequality Report

Hindu Nationalism’s sectarian nationalism and its concept of ‘duties and rights’

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CJP Files complaint with NCM over escalating Hate Speeches during Hindu Sanatan Ekta Padyatra

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Pervasive fear, surveillance of media, spiral of anti-India sentiment in Kashmir: CCG

Concerned Citizens’ Group (CCG) –a voluntary initiative set up in 2016--on its eleventh visit to Kashmir and Jammu, from October 28 to 31, 2025 and meetings with political actors, businessmen, teachers and other professionals apart from activists has released its report recently

Vande Mataram: How the recent discussions in Parliament around the national song initiated by the ruling regime stem from motives that are questionable

Retired Judge of the Madras High Court, K Chandru writes: the enforced debate in Parliament by the RSS-driven National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seeks to create a controversy over Vande Mataram raising concerns over the intentions of the present government; ‘A non-issue is being much importance and publicity’ he says