-Scroll.in Indians are not being given the information they need to really understand why farmers are angry about the new agricultural laws, they say. Fifty-eight-year-old Jasbeer Singh listed the names of the places in Haryana where he had to negotiate police barriers before finally arriving at the state’s Singhu border with Delhi as he travelled from his home in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district about 250 km away. Shambhu, between Punjab and Haryana, had...
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Why are nomads being evicted from Jammu and Kashmir? -Riyaz Wani
-Down to Earth Eviction drives come shortly after the J&K High Court declared the Roshni Act, allowed ownership of occupied government land against a fixed am Nomads of Jammu and Kashmir — mostly from the Gujjar and Bakkarwal communities living in temporary sheds or mud houses in forests and mountains — are being allegedly forcibly evicted by the government. Several videos of hutments being demolished surfaced in November 2020, triggering outrage from...
More »Shanties make way for Modi in Varanasi -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph police arrive to demolish shelters of 200-odd residents of the city's Sujabad slum ahead of PM's visit Lucknow: When the police arrived on Tuesday to demolish their shanties, the 200-odd residents of Varanasi’s Sujabad slum knew that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be visiting the neighbourhood again. The homes of these 70 families had been demolished also on February 12, four days before Modi’s previous trip to his constituency. Modi will now...
More »Experts warn against vaccinating frontline health workers first -Anuja Susan Varghese
-The New Indian Express As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and state governments are gearing up to administer them en masse. KOCHI: As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and state governments are gearing up to administer them en masse.Who are to receive vaccinations first has been...
More »'Misled’, ‘brainwashed’, ‘instigated’: How primetime TV covered farmer protests -Anna Priyadarshini
-Newslaundry.com ‘The prime minister assured that MSP will be given to farmers. What more assurance do you want?’ asked Arnab Goswami. As thousands of farmers marched on Delhi to protest against the farm laws brought by the Modi regime which they say favour corporations over their interests, they were met with teargas, water cannons and lathicharge. To prevent the farmers from reaching Delhi, the police in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh had blockaded the...
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