Farm and Forest

Supreme Court examines Forest Rights Act 2006 versus Conservation Law, makes national headlines

The rights of Adivasis and forest dwellers are, once again under threat as India's highest court considers the impact of Parliament’s wide-sweeping changes to the Forest Conservation Law (2023)

Farmer focussed Mahapanchayats getting massive response in UP as well

Section 144 made no difference to thousands of farmers who gathered for Mahapanchayat in Shamli on Friday

Farmers’ agitation: Students miss online classes due to internet suspensions

Internet suspensions have left students helpless, especially as examinations are approaching

Youths, women, workers and farmers prepare for Feb 6 ‘chakka jam’

According to farmer leaders, nearly a thousand solidarity protests will be observed on Saturday from Kerala alone. Other states plan blockades between 12 PM to 3 PM.

Punjab lawyers set up help desk at Delhi protest sites

Internet black out continues at farmers’ protest sites, doesn't deter protesters or lawyers assisting them

Farmer dies at Ghazipur border, family booked for draping body in Tricolour 

Police say the family covered the body with the National Flag like that of a martyr; FIR was registered against farmer Baljindra's mother Jasvir Kaur, brother Gurvinder and an unidentified person 

FIR against unknown ‘toolkit’ makers, not Greta Thunberg: Delhi Police

Following mass social media outrage against an FIR assumed to be filed against Greta Thunberg, city police say that the FIR never listed the young activist as an accused.

Why do Urban and Rural Indians have such different priorities?

The farmers' movement is the first time, the rural population has risen against the insensitive regime   

British Parliament may consider debate on Indian farmers’ protests

UK Parliament's Petitions Committee may hold debate at Westminster Hall in the House of Commons on the farmers protests and press freedom in India

Farmers’ movement: How NIA summons triggered the ‘Khalistan’ conspiracy theory

Are we seeing the history of the 1980’s repeat itself?

Peaceful protests are a hallmark of any thriving democracy: US on Farmers’ Protest

Remarks made at a press briefing by State Department spokesperson, meanwhile Delhi Police file FIR against Greta Thunberg

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