-Press release by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) dated 9th September, 2021 Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), today, released its new report on forced evictions in India. Titled, Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic, this report presents comprehensive data and an analysis of forced evictions and demolitions of homes of the urban and rural poor across the country in 2020. It...
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‘Where is the development, where are the services?’: Patricia Mukhim -Sanjoy Hazarika
-The Hindu A troubled Meghalaya will see unrest growing until 2023, when the next elections are due, says the editor of ‘The Shillong Times’, Patricia Mukhim On August 13, an ailing former leader of an armed group was shot dead in the middle of the night at his home in Shillong by a police team. The incident led to unrest in Mawlai where the encounter occurred and resonated in the adjoining neighbourhoods...
More »Farmers’ stir, the new dimension in UP’s politics -Satendra Kumar
-The Hindu Its retrieval of the old secular political language openly counters the BJP’s divisive and communal politics On September 5, 2021, in Uttar Pradesh, lakhs of farmers gathered at Muzaffarnagar’s government inter-college ground for the kisan mahapanchayat organised by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). At the mahapanchayat, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait reiterated the farmers’ demands to repeal the three farm Laws and for the “legal guarantee of MSP...
More »"Make Farm Laws Report Public": Panel Member To Chief Justice NV Ramana -Anindita Sanyal
-NDTV Anil Ghanwat, who was nominated to represent the farming community in the committee, wrote to Justice NV Ramana, "I feel that the report has not been given any attention by the Hon'ble Supreme Court" . New Delhi: A member of the Supreme Court-appointed panel on farm Laws has written to Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, seeking that a report submitted on the issue be made public. The panel had submitted...
More »Thousands of farmers head to Muzaffarnagar for massive mahapanchayat today -Ram Kinkar Singh
-IndiaToday.in Thousands of farmers are on their way to Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar where the Samyukta Kisan Morcha will be holding a massive 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' on Sunday. Muzaffarnagar: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called a massive 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on Sunday where the farmers' body is slated to launch 'Mission Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand' to give a boost to their protest against Centre's farm Laws. Important announcements related to the kisan morcha's...
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