A COW belonging to a farmer, Jaidev of Matani village in Haryana's Bhiwani district , bordering Rajasthan died of Lumpy skin disease. The death of Jaidev's cow caused him not only a loss of Rs 45 to 50 thousand ( tentative price of that cow giving 16 litres milk per day) but also around Rs 10 thousand spent on its unsuccessful treatment . His second cow was also infected with Lumpy . Though it survived, but there was a reduction in  milk production. Mahavir of village Gullarpur in Karnal district of Haryana lost a cow with 9-10 litre milk per day causing the family tremendous distress .

POPULARLY known as Wali Gujarati, 17th century Urdu poet Wali Muhammad Wali, in his poem Dar Firaaq-e-Gujarat wrote: “Parting from Gujarat leaves thorns in my chestMy heart-on-fire pounds impatiently in my breastWhat cure can heal the wound of living apart?The dagger of exile has cut deep into my heart….The heart is still anxious to catch a glimpse of my Gujarat again”Wali, though originally not from Gujarat, while leaving for Delhi, expressed his longin

THE United Nations’  call to observe November 25 as an International Day for “Elimination of Violence against Women” has got wide media coverage after the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, presented a chilling fact sheet that across the world  every 11 minutes a woman or a girl is killed by an intimate partner or family member. He called violence against women and girls as the most pervasive human rights violation in the world.Domestic violence is an undeclared war against women which has taken more victims through the years than any conventional war.

THE 24th AIKS Odisha state conference was held at Brahmagiri in Puri district on November 15-16, 2022. It began with a rally of hundreds of peasants, followed by a public meeting.  It included a good number of women and youth. It was presided over by AIKS state president Yameswar Samantaray, and it was addressed by AIKS president Ashok Dhawale, joint secretaries Vijoo Krishnan and Amal Haldar, state secretary Suresh Panigrahy, and state vice president Jagannath Mishra. November 15, the day of the rally, was the birth anniversary of the legendary Adivasi freedom fighter Birsa Munda.

The whole playbook of electoral tactics is now deployed in the state with PM Modi himself leading the battle.

ON November 10, when the first list of BJP candidates for Gujarat assembly elections was announced in New Delhi, there was a palpable sense of surprise among political observers though in Gujarat itself what was coming was anticipated. According to reports, among the 160 candidate names announced for