Activists

Basalt mining work resumes at West Bengal’s Deocha Pachami coal block, activists allege crackdown by administration

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Basalt mining work resumes at West Bengal’s Deocha Pachami coal block, activists allege crackdown by administration

The gathering of protestors on March 6, 2025, at Sagarbandi under Mohammed Bazar block in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, close to where basalt mining work has started since February this year. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Basalt mining work at the Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harisingha (DPDH) coal project resumed on Thursday (March 6, 2025) evening, March 6, 2025, … Read more

T.N. activists write to all newly-elected MPs urging them to enact a new, comprehensive child labour law

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T.N. activists write to all newly-elected MPs urging them to enact a new, comprehensive child labour law

Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: RAO GN Child rights activists in Tamil Nadu have written to all newly-elected MPs, demanding the repeal of the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 and its amendments. Calling for the immediate eradication of child labour in all its forms across the country, … Read more

Activists urge Union government to sell Bharat dal through PDS outlets

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Activists urge Union government to sell Bharat dal through PDS outlets

  Bharat brand of chana dal (Kadalai paruppu) is being sold at ₹60/kg in one kilo packets at crowded marketplaces in mobile vans to help reduce its prices in the open market.  The Union government’s exercise lacks transparency and seems like a political game where the ruling party at the Centre was trying to score … Read more

Right-wing activists enter FTII, attack students over banner decrying Babri Masjid demolition

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Right-wing activists enter FTII, attack students over banner decrying Babri Masjid demolition

Right-wing activists entered the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune on Tuesday and allegedly assaulted students over a banner condemning the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid, police said. President of the FTII Students Association (FSA) Mankap Nokwoham was among those who were attacked, the association claimed. The banner … Read more

Demand for inquest into Khalistan activist’s death in Birmingham likely on October 2

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Demand for inquest into Khalistan activist’s death in Birmingham likely on October 2

File photo of the Pro-Khalistani Sikhs demonstration outside the Indian High Commission in London. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Sikh Federation UK (SFUK) plans to make a formal demand, likely on Monday, for a coroner’s inquest into the death of Khalistani activist Avtar Singh Khanda in Birmingham last June, according to sources aware of … Read more

Health activists and patient groups seek revision of existing Biosimilar Guideline for increased access to critical drugs

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Health activists and patient groups seek revision of existing Biosimilar Guideline for increased access to critical drugs

 Biologics are the fastest-growing class of medications and account for a substantial and growing portion of health care costs. | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah Seeking immediate revision of Biosimilar Guideline (2016) to facilitate access to quality biosimilars at an affordable price, representatives of various civil societies, community and health organisations, and patient groups have written … Read more

Rayalaseema activists condemn Buggana’s statement of TB Dam, seek answers for ‘water scarcity’

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Rayalaseema activists condemn Buggana’s statement of TB Dam, seek answers for ‘water scarcity’

A view of Tungabhadra Dam in Anatapur district. | Photo Credit: File photo Taking strong exception to the statements made by Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy at Hospet in Karnataka that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s administrative acumen had led to the generation of the highest amount of power from Tungabhadra Dam … Read more

Activists seek early polls to rural local bodies

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Activists seek early polls to rural local bodies

All major schemes like MGNREGA, rural housing, Jal Jeevan Mission and rural roads are suffering in villages in Belagavi district,” according to Vishveshwarayya Hiremath, coordinator of the Grameena Koolikarara Sangha. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Some activists and political leaders want the new State government to begin the process of conducting rural local body elections … Read more

Activists allege police harassment during ‘fact-finding mission’ in Bastar

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Activists allege police harassment during ‘fact-finding mission’ in Bastar

Sixteen human rights activists from Bastar and other parts of the country have alleged that they had to abort a fact-finding mission “on human rights violations in Sukma and Bijapur districts” of south Chhattisgarh after security forces harassed them. The activists had left Sukma on February 1 to visit the interior villages of the district, … Read more

Justice has been denied, say activists fighting for Joshimath

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Justice has been denied, say activists fighting for Joshimath

A man shifts his belonging from an unsafe building in land subsidence affected area in Joshimath on Monday | Photo Credit: PTI Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision of refusing to entertain a petition seeking to declare the Joshimath crisis as ‘national disaster’, and asking the petitioners to approach the Uttarakhand High Court, Atul Sati, … Read more