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Microphone, ink attack on Rakesh Tikait in Bengaluru -KM Rakesh

-The Telegraph Bharatiya Kisan Union leader was addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan when a man rushed to the dais, grabbed a mic and hit him Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was attacked with a microphone and had ink thrown at him amid alleged chants of “Modi, Modi” in Bangalore on Monday, foregrounding a contested claim that an attempt had been made to buy off some of those who took part in the...

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India’s Coming Misadventure With Rice Fortification in All Food Schemes -Kavitha Kuruganti

-TheWire.in The Union government, cut off from the realities of the vast diversity of health and poverty conditions of the country, appears to have bitten the bait of corporate lobbies. Madhu Soren (12) and Bokai Soren (7) are two brothers with thalassemia in a village in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district. Thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder in which the body has lower than normal amounts of haemoglobin, an oxygen-carrying protein. When there is...

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Punjab: Farmers Call off Protests as AAP Govt Agrees to Several Demands -Vivek Gupta

-TheWire.in The farmers had stormed the Mohali-Chandigarh border on Tuesday, May 17 to press their various demands, including a bonus on wheat and advancing the paddy sowing schedule from June 10. Chandigarh: As many as 23 farm unions of Punjab, all members of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), had stormed the Mohali-Chandigarh border on Tuesday, May 17 to press their various demands, including a bonus on wheat and advancing the paddy sowing...

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Ban on wheat exports 'anti-farmer' move, say Punjab farmers' unions

-PTI/ The New Indian Express They also slammed the Centre for not announcing a bonus of Rs 500 per quintal of wheat, as demanded by them to compensate the drop in the yield on account of shrivelled grains due to intense heat wave CHANDIGARH: Farmers' unions in Punjab on Monday dubbed the Centre's decision of banning wheat exports as an "anti-farmer" move, saying that the Union government is not letting them reap...

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War, Food, Decolonisation and Why India Needs to Thank its Farmers -Prabhat Patnaik

-Newsclick.in The heroic kisan agitation against the farm laws has saved the day for India by defeating Imperialist efforts to undo India’s ‘food sovereignty’. Russia and Ukraine together account for 30% of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the war. And this disruption will continue since the war is also affecting the acreage...

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