-TheQuint.com Ashok Saket, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste, was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, and remains critical. In a shocking incident from Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, a labourer’s hand was cut off by his employer when he demanded his wages, on Sunday, 21 November. The victim, Ashok Saket, who belongs to a Scheduled Caste, was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in a critical condition. The victim’s nephew Lavkush Saket said that the incident...
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The defeat of hubris, a confrontation on hold -R Ramakumar
-The Hindu The addition of local agrarian demands into the call for the repeal of the farm laws may have forced the Government’s hand The repeal of the three farm laws by the Union government, on Friday, marks a historic victory for the farmer’s movement in India. For more than a year, thousands of farmers had barricaded Delhi, and their protests were gradually evolving into a pan-Indian movement of resistance. The belated,...
More »Announcement of Repeal of Farm Laws Big Setback to Neoliberalism -Navpreet Kaur and C Saratchand
-Newsclick.in It is the first significant reverse suffered by the government, which is promoting neoliberalism at breakneck speed. The announcement of the repeal of the three farm laws almost a year after farmers launched a massive movement against the Narendra Modi government’s contentious decision in which 671 protesters lost their lives is a setback to the neoliberal move, which intended to further corporate encroachment in agriculture. The organisations leading the struggle have argued...
More »NREGA Sangharsh Morcha demands payment of pending wages and further fund allocations for MGNREGA
-Press statement by NREGA Sangharsh Morcha dated 17th November, 2021 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has provided a cushion to millions of rural households amidst great economic distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. A substantial portion of the household expenditure in rural areas has been met through the NREGA wages and the nation has witnessed a significant rise in the demand for work under the programme since the...
More »India demands $1 trillion as ‘climate finance’ -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu India’s NDCs are subject to the availability of this amount in climate finance, says key negotiator India has demanded a trillion dollars over the next decade from developed countries to adapt to, and mitigate, the challenges arising from global warming, and has kept this as a condition for delivering on climate commitments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a senior official who is part of ongoing climate agreement negotiations in...
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