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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

False Twitter post claims Muslim man killed Hindu wife: Local News Channel Sets Record Straight

A communal spin to the gender based crime was being given on social media. The deceased as well as perpetrators belonged to the same religion

Maharashtra Farmers Set Off on Long March Again, to ‘Fight Till Last Drop of Blood’

The farmers will resume the march after the state government didn’t respond to their demand for compensation for crops damaged by untimely rains and hailstorms.

ABVP gang run riot disrupt academic session on Constitution & NEP: Odisha

In keeping with their unconstitutional mode of functioning, hundreds of ABVP ‘activists’ barge in, disrupt a seminar being conducted by Prof Surajit Mazumdar from JNU

Lakhimpur Kheri case: SC questions HC order granting bail to Ashish Mishra, reserves order on challenge

The apex court also questioned the examination of evidence while granting bail to Union Minister’s son Ashish Mishra

Assam Police Firing: Support for victims grows

12-hour Bandh in Assam, and protest by the Congress party even as nearly 3,000 police and paramilitary personnel are deployed to “maintain peace”

India and the Myanmar crisis: Death of Justice, Death of Morality

After alienating the people of India’s north east, the BJP regime’s violative policy Myanmaar refugees threatens to alienate the country from neighbours to our east, apart from violating our time-tested, human rights and humanitarian driven  approach towards asylum-seekers

Mitti satyagraha begins on the same day as the historic salt satyagraha!

The march will be carried out in two phases and will conclude at Delhi protest sites where the soil will be used to build memorials for martyrs

Eminent Hindi poet and journalist Manglesh Dabral passes away 

He had returned his Sahitya Akademi Award National award in 2015 to protest against "communal" atmosphere and "rising intolerance" 

Delhi Court dismisses plea of Gulfisha Fatima and 2 others booked under UAPA seeking statutory bail

The Karkardooma Court dismissed the applications of 3 student activists arrested in the Delhi riots case in April and June on grounds that the charge sheet was filed within the extended time period and that the applications had no merit.

Freedom Fighter’s daughter being dragged before Assam FT!

70-year-old Seje Bala Ghosh is ailing, has a broken arm and living in abject poverty

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