Over 800 journalists and scholars have condemned the FIRs filed against The Wire and its founding editor, Siddharth Varadarajan, pushed by the UP Government, calling it…
The key body reprersenting the alcohol industry in the country, CIABC, is pushing a phased restart of retail liquor stores shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic. It…
A policeman’s hand was chopped off and six other personnel were injured when a group of ‘Nihang Sikhs' attacked the police party after being denied entry…
Many Indian States are trying to find ways to bring alcohol under essential commodities during the lockdown period. But opposition by political parties and social pressure…
Daily wage labourers in Gujarat’s industrial city Surat defied the lockdown and took to the streets. The labourers say that if the lockdown is extended,…
By Soumya Sarkar/thethirdpole.net
Farmers in South Asia are staring at ruin. Just as it was ripening, the winter crop was seriously damaged by untimely rainfall…