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As farmers’ protests continue to take place and meet brutal state repression, the rest of the country is also not calm and youths across the country are being seen protesting against the central government for basic issues such as employment, paper re-tests, and so forth

Self-censorship of broadcasting networks due to persistent government oversight have dire potential for restriction of online free speech of individuals and independent media

The third meeting between the farmer leaders and the union ministers yielded no result, ministers assured ceasefire till talks are taking place; more than 100 farmers have been injured till now, three lost vision due to pellets

Repressive tactics employed by state and union government await farmers as they gear up for protest in Delhi on Feb 13 to demand law on MSP, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police cases and “justice” for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri

DMK Parliamentarians wore black robes in a demonstration besides the Gandhi statute in Parliament while Kerala CM Pinaray Vijayan stated that allegations of creating north-south divide baseless

Noida farmers protest: Higher compensation for land acquisition is just one of the demands raised by the farmers marching to Parliament

Karnataka lost Rs 1.87 lakh crore during 15th Finance Commission declared chief minister, Siddaramaiah, Tamil Nadu and Kerala has stated that it is given a bare Rs.021 back for every rupee it contributes to union exchequers and Tamil Nadu has also made a strong case for being deliberately excluded from union funds of Rs 37,000 crores to tackle the cyclone and floods natural calamities; chief ministers and senior leaders from the Congress (Siddaramaiah), Kerala and DMK will protest in Delhi on February 8; Kerala has alleged that the Union has denied the state Rs 57, 400 crores

As the ‘pick and choose’ game of the Union government continues, advocate Sundaresan loses out on seniority over seven judges

Officers have now been instructed to participate in Prime Minister Modi's yatra on November 15 and the union government has backed down from this campaign in the five poll-bound states. Merely stating that these public servants won't be called "rath prabharis" may not work, given the sharp opposition that the government’s plans have been met with; ECI issued a notice to the union government on the issue also yesterday, after a former IAS officer, EAS Sharma lodged a complaint

Bureaucrats and armed forces are all being “galvanized” by a majoritarian union government to push its campaign ahead of the polls