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Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers

While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard

Metro car shed to shift from Aarey forest to Kanjurmarg

Forest dwellers and activists rejoice as Maharashtra government decides against plundering the Aarey forest any more, cases against forest rights activists also dropped

Give forest rights not tiger reserves: Van Gujjar forest-dwellers in Uttarakhand

Forest dwellers demand fundamental rights to live and thrive in their homeland, the Shivalik Mohand mountain range in Uttarakhand.

Nearly 100 farmers, Yogendra Yadav and Pralhad Singh arrested in Sirsa!

Haryana police arrested agitating agriculture workers for unsanctioned protest at Sirsa-Barnala highway

Congress-led states consider party Bill to negate anti-farmer laws

As President Ram Nath Kovind gives his assent to the three agriculture Bills, Congress-led states discuss future moves to fight against the anti-farmer laws.

Can triple pricing fix the blunder of the new agrarian laws?

People First, an organisation that looks into the interest of the public sector has suggested a ‘triple pricing mechanism’ to correct the injustice of the recent agrarian laws.

Free trade for all farmers (but subject to restrictions!)

The Haryana government keeps farmers from other states from selling their produce in the state, concretising farmers’ worries about the impact of the new agrarian laws.

Crop procurement advanced by two days

Centre attempts to reassure farmers of their MSP rights despite new laws. Farmers eye the advancement of crop procurement with scepticism.

Congress MP moves Supreme Court challenging the Anti-Farmer Laws

With several states echoing the need to challenge the newly enacted laws, this is the first legal challenge

Karnataka Bandh: Farmers arrested while protesting changes in APMC, Land Reforms Acts

Following the week after nationwide protests against the three anti-farmer Bills of the Centre, Karnataka’s farmers declared a bandh from 6 AM to 6 PM.

States reject 1.75 million FRA claims till March

At a review meeting of Tribal Affairs Ministry, states submitted these statistics of claims accepted and rejected in past 1 year

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