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Over 700 schoolteachers who worked as polling officials in the Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections have died of Covid-19. More are in danger, with 8 lakh new cases reported in just

With the number of women agricultural labourers rising, keeping their wages low benefits landowners. It keeps their wage bills down. Contractors and landowners argue that women perform easier tasks and

(Photo thread)In villages across Goa, the juice of the cashew apple is distilled to produce feni, which now has its own Geographical Indication. At their small family-run distillery in North

The 8-member National Commission on Farmers, chaired by Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, was set up in 2004 by the UPA government to assess the extent of India’s agrarian crisis. It presented

THREAD: Step in Beating #COVID19 is to address the hunger & starvation it has entailed. Our reporters have travelled across the country to find stories of people struggling for food.

On #AmbedkarJayanti , a THREAD with links to some of his most seminal writings and speeches!1/ This volume includes his famous speech- The Annihilation of caste, another on Justice