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India–US trade deal faces mounting resistance as farmers intensify protests
From coordinated motorcycle rallies to toll plaza demonstrations, farmer groups accuse the Centre of ignoring concerns over agriculture, land policies and rural livelihoods while warning of a larger nationwide movement
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.
‘Kisan Satyagraha’, a visual diary of a year-long, historic struggle that forced a regime to withdraw three anti-farmer laws
The film traces the protest from November 26 until the Modi 2.0 government backed down in end 2021, recalls the brutal Lakhimpur Kheri violence, relevant even as farmers continue to protest today to demand a law on MSP as a statutory right
With less than two weeks for polling, how concerned are national parties on land and forest rights for Adivasis?
As constituencies in 20 states go to polls on April 19, in Phase 1 of the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, have political parties included forest rights and rights of Adivasi communities in their manifestos and election campaign?
The case for forest rights in the republic of India: why should the BJP be worried?
As the country moves closer to the date of the Lok Sabha elections, with the first phase beginning on April 19, the pot gets boiling on whether the BJP can save the Adivasi vote.
GOI withholding arrears of paddy farmers in Kerala for narrow electoral gain: AIKS
Arrears of paddy farmers in Kerala have been reportedly withheld by the union government dominated by the BJP only to score points in election season in Kerala; this has been stated by the All India Kisan Sabha in a press note issued today
‘Kisan Mazdoor Commission’: will examine rising challenges for Indian farmers
The objective of the KMC is to go “beyond the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission in the light of challenges arising out of the growing corporate control on the supply of farm inputs resulting in the rising cost of production for farmers and on the markets for agricultural produce leading to the loss of incomes from farming”.
Tyre cartel pays ruling BJP for govt’s connivance in ruining rubber farmers, plantation workers, small and medium traders & MSMEs alleges AIKS
The CPI-M affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has urged Prime Minister Modi to stop shedding crocodile tears for rubber farmers when his party has received money from leading tyre monopolies to buy government silence on “illegal caretelisation”
Unabated Conversion Of Agricultural Land In Kashmir Threatens Food Security
“Dismantling of land-related laws in Jammu and Kashmir is promoting unregulated sale and conversion of agricultural lands, leading to shortfall in foodgrains”
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