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Rajasthan has deployed 744 fertiliser inspectors for the rabi sowing season to curb hoarding and black marketing, an emergency army that admits how routinely subsidised urea and DAP leak away from farmers.
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The West Bank's olive harvest has opened under assault. Settlers and soldiers have wounded farmers in Kafr Qaddum, Beita, Jamma'in and Osarin, detained journalists, and torched homes and vehicles, with 259 attacks recorded since the season began and 30 Palestinians killed by settlers this year.
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From the 'save democracy' march on the Election Commission to Ladakh's anniversary of unanswered grief, India is witnessing a season of mutinies against unaccountable power. The street has become the one parliament the powerful cannot adjourn.
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Opinion: five years after an SUV linked to a Union minister's son mowed down farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri, the trial cannot even find a competent prosecutor - while in Punjab the CM's aide accused of running a posting racket sat protected for months
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On the fifth anniversary of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri killings, farmer unions held candle marches demanding justice. On September 22 the Supreme Court asked Uttar Pradesh to respond to a plea for a more experienced public prosecutor and sought a sealed-cover report on the trial's handling.
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Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde met PM Modi for an hour on Oct 5 over the state's drought, and returned with assurances of central support — but for farmers watching crops fail ahead of Diwali, the question is when relief actually reaches the field.
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A new study of the RBI's KLEMS database finds that over 25 years, rural farm workers who left agriculture mostly landed in non-productive, informal urban jobs — restaurants, construction, transport — not factories.
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Maharashtra has declared drought in 265 of its 358 talukas, nearly three-fourths of the state. The Fadnavis government stayed all farm-loan recoveries and unlocked Rs 6,728 crore under the Employment Guarantee Scheme, but debate has erupted over talukas left off the relief list.
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Fine rice prices have climbed 20-30% to Rs 60-70 a kg in retail, as Telangana's state procurement for its Sanna Biyyam free-rice scheme drains the open market and El Nino fears tighten supplies. RNR and BPT jumped from Rs 2,400 to Rs 3,300 a quintal; traders warn of further rises.
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The SKM says five years after the Centre's written MSP assurance, farmers got '25 paise a kilo'. This column argues the fight was never about grain prices — it is about who gets to price the labour of the people who feed the country.
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The Samyukta Kisan Morcha says the Centre's rabi MSP revision is an insult to farmers — a '25 paise a kilo' reply to its demand for a legal guarantee at C2+50%. It wants the order burnt in villages and protests at district headquarters.
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At Bhogapuram, farmers strip to their shirts to keep 850 acres from Reliance's AI data centre; at Tarluvada, Dalit families surrender D-patta land for 1,725 jobs against Rs 23,000 crore in subsidies. Development, again, is the poor paying for the rich's future.
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When a state must beg Delhi for disaster money that is owed by right, federalism has become charity. Karnataka's drought letter exposes a system that makes farmers wait for files while the rain fails.
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Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has written to PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah seeking urgent release of ₹3,705.30 crore in drought relief for Karnataka, which faces a 58% rainfall deficit and estimated crop losses of ₹18,748 crore.
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Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters at Beita in the occupied West Bank on October 2, firing live ammunition and stoning homes, while soldiers opened fire and forced farmers out of their groves at gunpoint, witnesses and footage show.
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On the eve of the October 6 Dharapuram bypoll, farmers accuse the TVK government of hollowing out its flagship promise of a full crop-loan waiver — replacing it with shifting slabs, a Rs 75,000 cap, and exclusions for March loans, pensioners and dairy farmers. Officials did not respond to questions.
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