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For many in India, and particularly in Gujarat, 26 March will always be remembered as a ‘black day!’ On that day in 2003, in keeping with an election promise,...
For & Against: Farmers’ Dignity & Right to Fair Livelihood
Why is the right wing, including the BJP, ready to defend the indefensible?
Farmers Bharat Bandh, December 8: Support surges across all sections
An overwhelming section of Indian society answer Indian farmers’ call to close down the nation in condemnation of the three anti-farmer laws passed by the central government.
Railway shutdown if anti-people laws not withdrawn by December 9: AIRF
The All India Railwaymen’s Federation extends a hand of solidarity to India’s farmers and promises a call to shut down railways if the three agriculture laws are not withdrawn.
There has been a Bharat Bandh for 70 years: Kapil Mishra
Bharatiya Janata Party politician Kapil Misra wants people not to express solidarity with the farmer unions, defy the Bharat Bandh on December 8
India’s students and political parties support Bharat Bandh called by protesting farmers
Continued support from various sections of society fuels farmers’ movement with new vigour
Concerned about GN Saibaba’s frail health after his hunger strike: Vasantha Kumari
Application for a 45 days’ parole has been rejected for the second time, rejection letter served in Marathi
Discrimination after death: Punjab and Haryana HC raises questions over different cremation grounds
The petitioners have alleged that Brahmins, Sikhs and Backward Classes have separate cremation grounds
December 8 ‘bandh’: Delhi Traffic Police announce diversions, close borders
Image Courtesy:english.jagran.comAs the massive farmers protest entered its twelfth...
Rally against state violence held outside Indian Visa and Passport office in Surrey
The participants raised slogans against the police violence against protesting farmers, ongoing attacks on minorities and incarceration of political activists
Center-Farmer talks: Next round on Wednesday, December 9
Farmers are firm on their demands, it is the government that needs time
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For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
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Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!
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35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms
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