-PTI NAGPUR: An end to the four-day agitation by dairy farmers appeared in sight on Thursday, with the Maharashtra government announcing that it had accepted a key demand of the Protesters. The government has decided to give Rs 25 per litre for milk to dairy farmers with effect from July 21, dairy development minister Mahadev Jankar said in the legislative assembly this evening. The farmers had been holding protests in parts of the...
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Unjustified murders by cops: Tuticorin report -Shanmughasundarm J
-The Times of India CHENNAI: A 23-members fact-finding team investigating the Tuticorin violence on May 22 and 23, where several people were killed in police firing, has submitted a report calling it a “total breakdown of civilian authority.” Putting the death toll at 15 as opposed to the earlier 13, the 260-page report called it “unjustified and unwanted” murders. “The Tuticorin police continue the terror regime and people are not allowed to...
More »Judicial panel on Mandsaur deaths: Firing was justified, necessary -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express Two Protesters had died in police firing at Bahi Parswanath and three outside Pipliyamandi Police Station on June 6. Bhopal: The judicial probe constituted after six deaths and violence during farmers’ agitation in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, in June last year, has given a clean chit to the police and CRPF personnel and held that firing was absolutely necessary (“nitant awashyak”) and justified (“nyaysangat”). The J K Jain Commission report, submitted...
More »'No respect for us...The hospital was a mess while we were away' -Dipankar Ghose
-The Indian Express Beginning May 18, close to 3,000 government nurses from across Chhattisgarh went on strike, for better pay. On June 2, 607 nurses were arrested. With the government promising to set up a committee, the protest was called off the next day and the nurses released. Tikeshwari Sahu was among the Protesters. * Since when have you been working? Tikeshwari Sahu: This September, I complete five years working as a nurse....
More »Punjab chink in farmer unity
-The Telegraph Ludhiana: Six peasant bodies in Punjab on Monday said they would walk out of the ongoing 10-day farmers' strike across several states following reports about minor clashes between some Protesters and milkmen over the past two days. The associations said they would discontinue their participation in the June 1-10 agitation from Wednesday onwards to avoid dispute. "The protests have been peaceful so far. In several places farmers set up shops to...
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