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Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS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

India in the age of State-sponsored Doxing

A closer look at the legal provisions surrounding revealing private information of individuals

Maharashtra’s Bhikshu Sangh claims forest land in Ramdegi hills

The Buddhist group’s legal argument highlights awareness of the Forest Rights Act, an important goal for rights groups like CJP and AIUFWP

Centre tightens security against anti-agnipath Bharat Bandh

Trade unions and farmers groups voiced support of the students decrying the Centre’s scheme

No innocent should ever be jailed, my life is dedicated to get other innocents released: Abdul Wahid Shaikh

Abdul Wahid Shaikh talks to Sabrang India’s Vallari Sanzgiri in an interview about his experience as an accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blast case

UP: Long lines for funerals return in Varanasi ghats

Local newspaper report Covid-like atmosphere at crematoriums with multiple bodies on the pyre at once

Provable connection between police and people who planted false evidence against Bhima-Koregaon accused: SentinelOne

Wired reports that Sentinel One has unearthed a connection between cops who arrested the accused and Modified Elephant, a hacking campaign that allegedly planted evidence on the devices of activists

Minority Kashmiri Hindus fear “something fishy” in South Kashmir

KPSS has appealed to the J&K High Court for a court-monitored a SIT probe into the recent killings

AISA students detained for decrying bulldozer raj

Students gathered and marched peacefully in the face of heavy police deployment: Delhi

If Sedition goes, so must criminalising provisions of UAPA: CCG

The group of former Civil Servants issue detailed analysis in an Open Statement on the Sedition Provision in the Indian Penal Code

Farmers reject Centre’s committed MSP prices

Unions like the AIKS and JKA point out how the suggested prices fail to account for the growing inflation in the economy

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