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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

SKM forms a committee to inquire against BKU leader Chaduni

Following allegations that the Haryana BKU leader tried to bring in political parties into the farmers’ protest, the farmers’ organisations has called for an inquiry report within three days.

South Asian activists in Canada burn copies of unjust Indian laws on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday

The members of Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI) came together to reject controversial Indian laws on the night of Friday, January 15

Delhi Police to decide on Farmers’ entry into Delhi for Republic Day rally: SC

The Delhi Police had filed a plea in the top court seeking a ban on the proposed tractor rally by farmers citing security issues

Kisan Parade will showcase floats and tableaus reflecting state of agriculture: SKM

Farmers organisations appealed for city and state police’s cooperation to ensure no anti-social element infiltrates the parade.

Those summoned may not appear before NIA as a mark of protest: Farm union leaders

Khalsa Aid urges international bodies, monitoring agencies to hold India to account, say summons are politically motivated

Not just a farmers struggle, but a fight for democracy: P. Sainath

On Saturday, Magsaysay award winner P. Sainath addressed masses in Patna about the significance of the farmers movement and the three laws opposed by the peasantry

Rohith Vemula’s ‘institutional murder’: Five years on, family and friends still wait for justice

Advocate Raja Vemula, dedicates law degree to brother Rohtih, on his Shahadat Divas, wows to fight for Dalit rights 

Manipur journalists booked under UAPA, sedition law

Duo arrested for articles expressing “sympathy and support for ideologies and activities of armed revolutionary groups”

10,000 people assemble at Azad Maidan! Mumbaikars put Centre’s claim to shame

Punjab farmer leaders who travelled to the city for the Saturday event thanked attendees for refuting the ‘only-Punjab-Haryana-protest” narrative of the Government of India.

Farmers organisations begin maintaining record of the fallen

As the death toll reaches 120, volunteers in the farmers’ struggle begin a blog to honour and record the people who had lost their lives during the movement.

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