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Protests break out in the state, where the poor still live on dole of 5kg rice, and workers, like anganwadis, are paid measly wages.

MGNREGA mattered because it was not framed as charity. It was framed as a legal entitlement. It protected the poor and debt-ridden from sliding into destitution.

The Winter session was defined by the aggressive bulldozing of contentious laws and a conspicuous vacuum of leadership.

ICIMOD scientists used satellite measurements of Aerosol Optical Depth, a key indicator of how many particles are in the air column, to support this finding.

From allegations against the Election Commission to calls for paper ballots, a winter protest in Delhi reflects growing anxiety over the credibility of Indias democratic process.

A more humane society can only be built by transcending capitalism, and ushering in a system where the means of production are socially owned.

As hotter, wetter summers drive up lightning strikes across Bengal, rural families in Hooghly are left to face deadly storms with patchy alerts, thin compensation and a trail of invisible survivors.

After the Mass Crying Rally, Bodo groups plan a gathering of two lakhpeople at Kokrajhar should the situation warrant.

The 100-km rally, called by the CPI(M), is traversing through once bustling industrial belts, tea gardens, jute fields etc.. that have fallen silent.

Will VB-GRAM-G truly increase employment, or is it an attempt to eliminate the rights workers have secured through MGNREGA?

Crony monopolies or duopolies will always be inefficient, prone to failure, requiring government bail-out from time to time.

Any attempt to repeal or fundamentally alter MGNREGA without the consent and participation of workers and their organisations is unacceptable, the Morcha said.

Raking up the issue decades after it was settled, is part of a deeper communal agenda aimed at propping up identity politics to polarise the country.

The Bill redefines education as a managed, marketised and politically supervised sector, and must be withdrawn.

The terrain of cyberspace, while once liberatory, has become predatory in some respects, with humans playing both spectators and actors.

On December 14, the Congress Party organized a mega rally Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.

Although presented as reforms, the codes in effect give the government sweeping authority, weaken worker protections, undermine unions.

The deeper danger today for the collapse of democracies is not authoritarianism itself, but democratic complacency.

In India Ki Baat, we discuss how farmers are being oppressed in Rajasthans Hanumangarh for an ethanol factory. Also, why is BJP so upset with Rahul Gandhis foreign trips?

In this episode of Padtaal Duniya Bhar Ki, Newsclick's Chief Editor Prabir Purkayastha talks about complications in the India-US trade deal and US's new security strategy document.

In Gola village of Ajmer district, a centuries-old belief in goddess Kalki has preserved a dense green forest and stable water levels, even as the surrounding region turns drier.

Hundreds of pensioners, P&T and other government employees unions gather to pay homage to their charismatic leader.

In the dogmatic scheme of things then,Vande Mataram was more of a religious war cry to establish Hindu glory, before it became a political chant for freedom against the British.

There is a palpable air of angst among many in the party, with rumours that some senior BJD leaders are contemplating a switch-over to either BJP or Congress.

After nearly five years of incarceration under the UAPA, the High Courts decision marks a pivotal shift in a prosecution dogged by forensic uncertainty, procedural delay and mounting constitutional concerns.

Farmer groups claim that the proposed bill is an attempt to reintroduce provisions of laws which the ultra-right-wing government was forced to withdraw after a year-long protest in Delhi in 2020-21.

The problem was the expansion of the app's ambit from location-tracking for a misplaced or stolen mobile, to a full-fledged surveillance tool.

An intrepid and committed social reformer and organiser of the urban working class, labourers, domestic workers, waste-pickers, Baba Adhav of the Ek Gaon Ek Panavtha (One Village One Water Source/Well), who challenged the caste system, died in Pune on Monday December 8.

Modis emphasis on duties rather than rights reflect his governments policies wherein the rights-based approach, especially of minorities and the marginalised, has gone into the freezer.

The AITUC General Secretary explains why these laws serve the best interests of corporates, not of workers.

The AITUC General Secretary explains why these laws serve the best interests of corporates, not of workers.

Wave of anxiety among voters, state links 39 deaths to 'SIR panic'; TMC government announces compensation, block-level help camps from Dec 12.

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

Indias labour laws must evolve, but this cannot mean shifting power away from workers and smaller producers toward those already positioned at the top of the economic hierarchy.

It is noticeable that no authority wants to tackle the powerful automobile or construction lobbies, both of whom deny major responsibility and point fingers elsewhere.

Civil aviation expert D Raghunandan warns that the Indigo chaos may happen again if the shortage of pilots is not resolved soon.

With the rains no longer following a calendar, farmers are shifting to less water and labour-intensive crops, and the move is stripping agricultural labourers of steady work.

In Padtaal Duniya Bhar Ki, NewsClicks Chief Editor Prabir Purkayastha talks about the impact of the meeting and agreements between Modi and Putin on world diplomacy.

Thousands of daily wage workersloaders, porters, helperslost their livelihoods overnight, especially around Bengals Petrapole and Ghojadanga.

An insistence on a Swadeshi interpretation without addressing the question of social inequities in our society will roll back our progress on constitutional governance and liberties.

Students, youth, civil society groups and local artists held a strong protest against Delhi's toxic air at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday, December 3.

When Sakina Itoo or other NC leaders claim that 80% of the manifesto has been implemented, they are not engaging in political accounting but in political manipulation.

As extreme weather deepens agricultural distress, women excluded from formal credit systems are trapped between microfinance pressure and shrinking livelihoods.

There is a cognisable relation between a weaker rupee vis-a-vis the dollar, and the fall in the real purchasing power of Indian customers.

Effective de-carbonisation will depend on targeting the highest-emitting segments, rather than treating all vehicles alike.

An expos on regulatory opacity, depositor exclusion, and the urgent need for reform.

Melting ice, failing micro-hydro projects and fragile solar systems are pushing Zanskar into deeper energy vulnerability.

The working class, farmers, small producers, and low-income households bear the harshest costs of a falling rupee, while the wealthier segments often gain.

The Courts refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities.

The Internet Freedom Foundation said it will fight to get the DoTs non-consensual order rescinded, and has filed an RTI for a copy of the direction/order and its underlying justification.