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Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS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

Allow legal guarantee to MSP and empower farmers: Varun Gandhi to Modi

Gandhi made a case for small and marginal farmers, and how MSP at C2+50 provided them with a degree economic security 

Repealing the farm laws

Political decision with an eye on upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab

Will repeal of Farm Laws help BJP win UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand elections?

Farmers say protest will continue till MSP legalised, justice for martyrs assured

Farmers celebrate repeal of three laws at Delhi borders!

SKM thanks martyred farmers and supporters, but reminds that the movement is far from over

Gov’t U-turn in Hyderpora encounter: Bodies of 2 Srinagar residents exhumed, to be returned to families

While the authorities had previously denied requests to return the remains claiming the deceased were militants, the gov't has now reversed the decision in what appears to be a victory for the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration who have also demanded a time-bound judiciary inquiry into Hyderpora killings

Centre backs down, repeals three contentious farm laws

Farmer leaders acknowledge the victory of the repeal but remind that other pressing issues like MSP remain

Three Farm Laws to be repealed: Prime Minister Narendra Modi 

The PM chose the day of Gurupurab, the biggest Sikh festival, to announce repealing the three Farm Laws, however other demands not addressed yet

Won’t allow Kashmir to be turned into a graveyard: PADG 

The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration has demanded a time-bound judiciary inquiry into Hyderpora killings

UAPA is used as preventive detention law, without it being one: Ex-civil servants petition SC

Petitioners point out that abysmally low rates of successful prosecutions show that the Act is arbitrarily used more to quell dissent

Delhi: Police complaint against standup comedian Vir Das for ‘maligning India’s image’

Another police complaint has been lodged against Vir Das in Delhi by one Aditya Jha, said to be a BJP member 

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