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Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS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
The case for forest rights in the republic of India: why should the BJP be worried?
As the country moves closer to the date of the Lok Sabha elections, with the first phase beginning on April 19, the pot gets boiling on whether the BJP can save the Adivasi vote.
Four-year-old raped in New Delhi, locals protest and organise public meeting
A four-year-old child was raped in New Delhi when she had gone for tuition lessons. The child was raped by the 34-year-old brother of her tuition teacher. Local residents have protested and even organised a public meeting with police officials.
Fulfill Promises Made To People Of Ladakh: Sonam Wangchuk In Fresh Appeal To Modi
Women activists of Ladakh begin fresh batch of 10-day long hunger strike in Leh
GOI withholding arrears of paddy farmers in Kerala for narrow electoral gain: AIKS
Arrears of paddy farmers in Kerala have been reportedly withheld by the union government dominated by the BJP only to score points in election season in Kerala; this has been stated by the All India Kisan Sabha in a press note issued today
Sheela Barse, a gutsy champion for child rights, juvenile justice and rights of women prisoners
Sheela Barse, a journalist, and activist, known for her pioneering work on these issues among others, passed away Monday night in Pune. She was 84. Indian Express broke the story of her demise; Barse’s family said that the journalist was bedridden for nearly a year after suffering a fall.
‘Kisan Mazdoor Commission’: will examine rising challenges for Indian farmers
The objective of the KMC is to go “beyond the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission in the light of challenges arising out of the growing corporate control on the supply of farm inputs resulting in the rising cost of production for farmers and on the markets for agricultural produce leading to the loss of incomes from farming”.
Top US academics, including Amartya Sen, condemn long incarceration of journalists & activists, erosion of Indian democracy
A group of prominent international scholars, academicians, and writers has sounded the alarm over the prolonged incarceration of critics of the BJP government in India; named in the statement are 75 year-old senior journalist and author, Prabir Purkayastha.
March to border, relay fast on climate change and demands for Ladhakh to continue as climate activist Sonam Wangchuk ends hunger strike after 21...
Ladakh, India’s highest plateau at 9,800 feet is an ecologically fragile region and has seen protests for months against industrial development, demands for statehood and inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution; when talks with the union home ministry failed, the hunger strike was launched
A couple declared Indian again after more than a year of struggle, after CJP steps in
CJP Team -
CJP has triumphed with another victory; a 20-year-old notice from the Foreigner Tribunal was successfully contested and victory was sweet when the couple was declared Indian on March 19, 2024
Tyre cartel pays ruling BJP for govt’s connivance in ruining rubber farmers, plantation workers, small and medium traders & MSMEs alleges AIKS
The CPI-M affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has urged Prime Minister Modi to stop shedding crocodile tears for rubber farmers when his party has received money from leading tyre monopolies to buy government silence on “illegal caretelisation”
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Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS
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Civil society warns, Election Commission is “Undermining Democracy”
An interesting formation of citizens groups and people’s organisations has directly accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) as being responsible for a systemic assault on the Indian democratic framework
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Hate Has No Place in Elections: CJP moves State EC against BJP MP Ashwini Choubey’s communal speech
In Bhagalpur’s Pirpainti, the senior BJP leader urged “Muslim brothers” to reduce their population and referred to “infiltrators,” breaching the Model Code of Conduct and constitutional values
Communalism
Hindutva’s Rajasthan Project: Brahmin-Bania Power, not just Muslim baiting
The RSS’ and Hindutva’s strategy in Rajasthan has systematically pushed the dominance of a Brahmin–Bania synergy that shrewdly ensures that while Muslims are scapegoated, Rajputs are historically and politically side-lined and the real beneficiaries are the Brahmin-Bania elites who monopolise both state power and wealth.
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri
Over 4,000 Tharu Adivasis in Lakhimpur Kheri — including a blind man, a chronically ill man, and several elders — have been wrongfully booked. This analysis shows how administrative discretion and recent forest-law amendments are further undermining the protections guaranteed to forest-dwelling communities under the Forest Rights Act, 2006
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Lives in the Margins: Reading India’s suicide data beyond the numbers
India’s rising suicides tell a national story the state refuses to hear: of farmers abandoned, students crushed, and women erased from data
Hate Speech
CJP seeks action against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM’s Tausif Alam for election code violations in Bihar
In twin complaints to the Election Commission, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) alleges Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM candidate Tausif Alam of crossing constitutional red lines — one by communalising the campaign with hate-laden rhetoric, the other by threatening brutal violence against a rival, exposing the deep decay of democratic discourse in the Bihar elections