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‘Designed to Exclude’: The ongoing enumeration phase of the SIR

In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it ‘designed to excluide’

We will either die or win! Talks between farmers and the Centre remain inconclusive

Tensions high, farmers maintained a strict silence following the Centre’s declaration that farmers' main demand cannot be accepted.

The relevance of a 2018 private member Bill for the protesting farmers

The Bill presented by former MP Raju Shetti in 2018 aimed at remunerative crop price and an established complaint redressal mechanism for the farmers  

Do farmers’ demands benefit India’s hungry population?

Subsequent press releases by farmers organisations have highlighted India’s performance in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report 2020 to strengthen their argument for a legal right to MSP. But is there a direct connection between farmers’ demands and the hunger issue?

Shree Brar’s arrest after Kisan Anthem video generates political heat

Patiala police recently arrested the Punjabi singer on charges of promoting gun culture in a song he had released in November

Cases of H5N8 strain of Avian Flu reported from 8 states

Kerala worst affected, large flock of migratory birds dies in Himachal Pradesh

Gauhati HC rejects Akhil Gogoi’s bail plea

The peasant rights leader was arrested for protesting CAA-NRC-NPR and has languishing behind bars in multiple cases filed by a vindictive regime

Uttar Pradesh police confront farmer leaders headed towards Delhi

Video clips of posse of policemen intercepting farmer leaders on tractors, at two points, have gone viral on social media

Farmer’s tractor march: Over 10,000 vehicles flood KMP highway!

The tractor march proceeded smoothly along the expressway with no police altercation although neighbouring areas complained of police interference

Thousands of tractors set off along the KMP highway!

Four batches of farmers mobilise thousands of tractors to meet at various points along the highway, in a "rehearsal" for Republic Day.

Why farmers are anti-Adani

Farmers groups fear that proximity to the highest echelons of power and favourable policies enable the Adani group to hoard and export food grains, a claim vehemently denied by the Adani group

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