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“₹4 a Kilo for a Crop That Costs ₹20 to Grow”: Nashik’s onion farmers erupt in protest over deepening price crisis
Farmers in the thousands blocked the Mumbai–Agra Highway in Maharashtra’s onion belt, demanding fair procurement prices, compensation for distress sales and relief from export restrictions; the protests were supported by the Opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders who were also detained
Lockdown horror: Manipur forest department demolishes homes of forest dwellers
No information yet on if and when alternative accommodation will be provided to the families
32 tribals homes demolished in Kalahandi Odisha
Odisha Forest Department carries out demolitions amidst lockdown, leaving nearly 90 people shelter-less in the punishing summer
If agriculture were to be the most remunerative activity
How the Covid-19 pandemic has proved to be a great leveler
Stop the open industrial and mining activities in tribal areas: NGO to Odisha CM
Concerns raised by Lokshakti Abhiyan in wake of Covid-19 pandemic
MHA exempts MFP and NTFP from lockdown
Issues further lockdown guidelines related to agriculture, horticulture, plantations, financial sector and construction activities
Denying Forest Dwellers Rights, Gauhati HC orders removal of Adivasi “encroachers”
Denying forest dwellers rights in the Chariduar Reserved Forest, the Guwahati HC has directed the evacuation of “encroachers
Adivasis ousted from both home & land rights through a draconian law: Gujarat
In the guise of tourism, the new Statue of Unity Act not only illegally converts a forested area over which the local tribal population has constitutionally guaranteed rights into an ‘urban’ area in which they will need government permission to do anything but legalizes evictions
Will CAA ensure land ‘invasions’ into Adivasi dominated Vth Schedule areas?
For over two months now, the controversial, Citizenship Amendment...
First POSCO, now JSW: Dhinkia villagers are still fighting for their land and compensation
The members of the anti-Jindal anti-Posco movement are opposing the five projects proposed by JSW claiming they don’t meet required environmental clearances
If we are here, only then will the jungle remain: Adivasis and forest dwellers
In the recently concluded winter session of Lok Sabha, a question was raised about the scheme for relocation and rehabilitation of villages from forest area for the development of Tiger Reserve Forest and the compensation given to such villagers.
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