-Down to Earth Genetically modified food items are flooding Indian markets with seemingly no trouble at all Just last year the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had told the Supreme Court that “GM (genetically modified) foods are not allowed in the country” and yet no action has Been taken against the GM foods flooding Indian markets. The Coalition for a GM-free India has complained to the FSSAI with pictorial...

-The Hindu Business Line Eleven years since its inception, the State’s farmer’s debt relief commission has quietly eased the burden of debt on poor farmers, and grown to be a model worth emulating Earlier this week 35,000 debt-ridden farmers coursed through Maharashtra, walking 180 km on blistered soles, to converge at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan demanding freedom from debt and fair compensation for their produce. As the government scrounged for solutions, it could’ve...

-Scroll.in They had beaten a 55-year-old man to death in June 2017 on suspicion of carrying Beef in his van. A Jharkhand court on Friday convicted a local Bharatiya Janata Party worker and 10 others for lynching a Muslim trader in June 2017. The convicts had beaten a 55-year-old man to death in Ramgarh district on suspicion of carrying Beef in his van. A petition the prosecution filed to treat a 12th...

-IANS Farmer suicides have Been taking place across India for years now, and studies of rural distress reveal the deeply-rooted, tenacious causes, such as lack of irrigation, fragmentation of land, unsuitability of seeds and inadequate sources of credit. Despite the democratically-elected governments that claim to represent a country where over half the population is dependent on farming, agriculture has Been consistently ignored at a steep cost to farmers' lives. Remedies have Been...

-National Herald While the concerns of the privileged class due to the mandatory linking has Been addressed by the apex court, much greater hardships endured by poor people are ignored, RFC said The recent Supreme Court order on Aadhaar, extending the deadline of Aadhaar linking to bank accounts, phone numbers has Been hailed on the social media. But the order has “deeply disappointed” the Right to Food Campaign. “The Right to Food Campaign...