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“₹4 a Kilo for a Crop That Costs ₹20 to Grow”: Nashik’s onion farmers erupt in protest over deepening price crisis

Farmers in the thousands blocked the Mumbai–Agra Highway in Maharashtra’s onion belt, demanding fair procurement prices, compensation for distress sales and relief from export restrictions; the protests were supported by the Opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders who were also detained

The Third National Convention of Dakshinayan Abhiyan

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A Man Who Broke New Grounds in Collective Bargaining: Lal Salaam Comrade Chauhan!

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Human Rights Defender Teesta Setalvad targeted yet again

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Architects and Town Planners Need to Break the Silence: Kamala Mills Fire

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Gujarat Polls: Juhapura, The Largest Muslim Ghetto In Gujarat, Is A Picture Of Deliberate Neglect

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As State Bungles Loan Waiver, 4 Maharashtra Farmers Kill Themselves

Though the government has begun the process of releasing...

Violence against women – two patriarchal judgements

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