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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

SC to hear plea challenging Ashish Mishra’s bail tomorrow

Ever since he was enlarged on bail, his supporters have grown bolder and even brutally attacked an eye-witness in the Lakhimpur-Kheri massacre

SKM calls for week-long MSP campaign

Farmers say that the non-implementation of the government assurances, even after three months, exposes the anti-farmer intentions of the Centre

Freedom for Ishrat Jahan as Court grants her bail!

An advocate, activist and a political activist, Ishrat Jahan was granted bail after 25 long months

India ranks high in cumulative excess Covid-deaths: Lancet report

A global report looking at excess deaths during the pandemic period put India in a harsh light

Despite SC rap, UP Claims Tribunal issues notice to recover damages from anti-CAA protesters!

Last month the notices issued by the administration, were withdrawn after the Supreme Court’s orders

Chorus grows for Hidme Markam’s release

A year after Markam’s arrest, Adivasis still haven’t seen a legitimate warrant for the activist’s imprisonment

UP Assembly Elections: Farmers dealt a mighty blow to the BJP in some constituencies

The BJP won with an overall majority, but suffered greatly in farmer-dominated areas; 'Vote ki Chot' not entirely ineffective

UP Assembly Elections: Lakhimpur Kheri witness allegedly attacked by BJP goons celebrating victory

Victim Diljot Singh said that his assailants threatened to kill all witnesses, following the BJP’s Assembly election victory

Eastern UP crucial to give BJP ‘vote ki chot’: SKM

SKM appeals to Varanasi to stand with farmers against BJP; farmers complete the final leg of Mission UP, a campaign to punish the BJP during Assembly Elections

UP: Insufficient nutrition packages cause rift between anganwadis and community

Union of Anganwadi workers urges the state government to supply adequate nutrition and resolve the conflict

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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

Hidden Histories: A rare memory of the struggle for freedom in a Himalayan kingdom

While large parts of modern India’s contribution to the sub-continent’s struggle for freedom find place in historical accounts, the author tracks this unreported hidden struggle against colonial yoke in the Himalayan kingdom of Tehri 

Five Things Mamata Banerjee Said After Meeting CEC Over SIR

In November, the chief minister had asked the CEC to halt the SIR in the poll-bound state, claiming that the BLOs had not been provided adequate training, support or time.

Parade of Public Shaming: How Rajasthan police’s illegal “arrest rituals” replace due process with public defilement

In open defiance of law, Supreme Court guidelines, and even their own DGP’s orders, Rajasthan Police have normalised the public parading of accused and suspects, turning due process into a degrading public spectacle—an illegality repeated through 2025 with the state’s top police office remaining silent

How defending a 70-year-old Muslim shopkeeper triggered FIRs, highway blockades, and a law-and-order crisis in Uttarakhand

What began as a local intervention against alleged intimidation over a shop’s name spiralled into right-wing mobilisation, multiple FIRs, and a national debate on selective policing, free speech, and communal harmony in Kotdwar

Hearing in batch of CJP-led petitions challenging state Anti-Conversion laws defers in SC; Interim relief applications pending since April 2025

Petitions pending since 2020 challenge the constitutional validity of conversion-regulating laws enacted by nine States; next hearing scheduled for February 3, 2026