-The Indian Express Considering the critical importance of agriculture for livelihoods, health, food security, and also keeping in mind the vulnerability of Indian farmers, it is necessary to go beyond reductionist expediency in considering agricultural reforms. In his speech on December 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the three controversial farm Laws will finally deliver justice to the vast majority of small farmers who have been ignored by successive governments. As...

-Newsclick.in Private capital in agriculture is a death warrant for farmers, but the PM is trapped. He can either have a ‘firm leader’ image or avert this tragedy. What was intended to be a two-day protest on 26-27 November 2020 in Delhi has turned into a month-long protest on its borders. As it is turning into a nationwide protest with mass mobilisation, not only of farmers but of different classes of people,...

-TheWire.in The RTI query had been filed by Saket Gokhale in the aftermath of Arnab Goswami's petition being listed immediately before the top court. New Delhi: The response to a Right to Information (RTI) Act query has revealed that there are 931 pending interim, regular or anticipatory bail petitions pending before the Supreme Court. In addition, there are also 141 petitions related to suspension of sentence are also pending. The RTI query was...

-The Hindu After the seventh round of talks, farmer leaders said the government said it needs to consult internally and thereafter it would come back to the unions. The seventh round of talks between Union Ministers and protesting farm unions on Monday failed to resolve the deadlock over three new agricultural reform Laws. Both sides stuck to their own positions and accused the other of stubbornness, with the Centre seeking to discuss...

-The Hindu The gender gap in the agriculture sector will only widen more with the current farm Laws Eminent agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan once said, “Some historians believe that it was women who first domesticated crop plants and thereby initiated the art and science of farming. While men went out hunting in search of food, women started gathering seeds from the native flora and began cultivating those of interest from the point...