A 35-year-old farmer was severely injured on Sunday after being hit by a tear gas shell the police lobbed during a protest in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district. Scores of farmers had gathered in Kushalpura village in the district’s Chomu tehsil demanding…
Songs of Resistance: A musical journey Dongar phodto amhi / Dagada zodto amhi / Raktachya cementani / dharan bandhto amhi / Sukh tumhala... dukh amhala (We break mountains/ put rocks together/ mix our blood with cement to build your dams/…
Source: Kozhikode: Kisan Sabha leader Ashok Dhawale honoured
If governments want to ban cattle slaughter or close abattoirs, they must amend cow protection laws to ensure that they purchase the resultant unproductive animals by paying market rates to owners. This is the demand of Left-backed farmers’ organisations in…
The Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Monday said it was thrilled with the successful farmers protests in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, which had given strength to the farmers’ cause and expanded agitations across the country. The support from non-farmer…
The State has recorded its worst performance in four years in disbursement of crop loans with only 41% of the target being achieved by January-end compared with the 72% at the same time last year. The low credit offtake has…
On 6 March, some 35,000 farmers from across Maharashtra marched to Mumbai, demanding of the state government land rights, loan waivers, fair compensation for their produce, respect and dignity for farmers from indigenous tribes (adivasis) and improvements in the agriculture…
Farmers in Sikar district are again up in arms against the Rajasthan government after crash in onion prices with rising arrivals of the produce, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) leaders said. AIKS, the CPI(M)-affiliated farmers’ organisation, plans a demonstration at…
Unprovoked attacks on cattle farmers by self-styled gaurakshaks have broken the back of cattle economy in the country and the worst affected were small and marginal farmers whose nearly a third of income came from animal husbandry, a national convention…