A bike rally taken out by the Coast Guard from Vizhinjam to Daman, along the west coast of India, to interact and educate fishermen reached Coast Guard Headquarters, Karnataka in Mangaluru. The bike rally is set to cover the entire coastline till Goa, where it will be handed over to the Goa team at Vasco. The bike rally is expected to foster the involvement of the fishing community in nation-building.
Modi regime steps up repression of farmers opposing its pro-agribusiness laws
“There were several layers of security,” noted an
Indian Express report: “two heavy layers of metal barricading (along with spools of razor wire); a layer of large stone boulders; followed by a layer of (more than 2,000) nails (embedded on the road) and a layer of concrete barricades. A few meters ahead of that was another layer of stone boulders, followed by yet another layer of concrete barricades after a few meters.”
Anyone thinking that this was a description of a war zone would be badly mistaken. The report describes just one element in the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s mounting campaign of repression against farmers who are encamped on the borders of India’s capital, Delhi, as part of a protest against its pro-agribusiness farm laws.