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Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad stages protest against land transfer to Adani

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Maharashtra Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad during a protest against land transfer to Adani on June 8, 2025. Picture: X/@VarshaEGaikwad

Maharashtra Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad during a protest against land transfer to Adani on June 8, 2025. Picture: X/@VarshaEGaikwad

Mumbai Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad led a protest on Sunday (June 8, 2025) against handing over the Mother Dairy land parcel in Mumbai’s Kurla to the Adani group for Dharavi Redevelopment Project Private Limited (DRPPL).

She demanded to use the land for a botanical garden instead of a rehabilitation project, saying, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrenders when American president Donald Trump calls, why CM Devender Fadnavis surrenders when Modi calls for Adani.”

Former Minister Ms. Gaikwad alleged the BJP government is constantly ignoring the opposition of the locals and letting Adani swallow the whole of Mumbai during the protest.

“The Kurla Mother Dairyland is environmentally sensitive. Kurla Mother Dairy houses hundred-year-old trees, locals are demanding a botanical garden to protect them, yet it is transferred to Adani for infrastructure purposes at a nominal rate,” she added.

Days ago, the Maharashtra Cabinet’s decision to transfer an 8.05-hectare Mother Dairy land parcel to the DRPPL triggered opposition from locals and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders. Kurla Dairy is among the three dairies of Mumbai, where milk production stopped over the years, and the land was made available for other projects.

Many Congress leaders and party functionaries, including MLA Jyoti Gaikwad, Congress spokesperson Suresh Chandra Rajhans, and Mumbai General Secretary Mahendra Mungekar, along with their supporters and activists, staged the peaceful protest in Kurla.

Ms. Gaikwad said, “While we were peacefully protesting, once again the Modani (Modi and Adani) government had sent a large police force to suppress the voice of the people. What justice is it that the police stopped the peaceful protest with the force of police force? The government is providing security to thieves, but we will not be swayed by this oppression. We will continue to fight against this Adani government for the rights of Mumbai.”

She called the transfer of land a part of a “conspiracy” wherein the plan is to destroy the lives of lakhs of Dharavikars and acquire 600 acres of land in Dharavi, along with Kurla Mother Dairy, saltpans, and Deonar dumping ground land. She alleged government will also seize land parcels in Air India Colony, Bandra Reclamation, Behrampada, and Motilal Nagar without taking the locals into confidence.

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Haveri to get 8,794-tonne cold storage to serve needs of farmers

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A file photo of a cold storage facility. A 8,794-tonne cold storage will be built at a cost of ₹30 crore on the APMC ground near Hoolihalli-Konebevu villages in Haveri district of Karnataka.

A file photo of a cold storage facility. A 8,794-tonne cold storage will be built at a cost of ₹30 crore on the APMC ground near Hoolihalli-Konebevu villages in Haveri district of Karnataka.
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Minister for Agricultural Marketing and Haveri district in-charge Shivanand Patil launched work on a mega cold storage in Haveri district on June 22.

The 8,794-tonne cold storage will be built at a cost of ₹30 crore on the APMC ground near Hoolihalli-Konebevu villages. The government of Karnataka will construct three more storage facilities under the RIDF-30 scheme, he said.

The Minister expects the Ranebennur Agricultural Produce Market to emerge as the third biggest in Karnataka, after Mysuru and Hubballi.

“The new APMC market has been built at a cost of ₹220 crore, and shops have been allotted to shop owners. But all of them have not yet opened them. We urge all of them to shift here and start trading,” the Minister said.

He said the Congress government had revived APMCs in Karnataka and reduced trading levy. “With the levy at 60 paise for every ₹100, we have collected APMC cess amounting to ₹500 crore,” he said adding, “The total business in all the APMCs in Karnataka adds up to around ₹78,000 crore.”

Basavaraj Shivannavar, MLA of Byadgi and Chairman of the Forest Development Corporation, Hubballi Electricity Supply Company Limited President Azimpeera Khadri, Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Ruchi Bindal, District Superintendent of Police Anshu Kumar and others were present.

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India debunks claims of U.S. using Indian airspace for Iran strikes, PIB Fact Check confirms

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India on Sunday (June 22, 2025) dismissed as “fake” claims by certain social media handles that the U.S. fighter jets used Indian airspace to launch strikes against Iran.

Also read: Israel-Iran conflict updates

The U.S. bombed three nuclear sites in Iran on Sunday (June 22, 2025), with U.S. President Donald Trump warning of additional strikes if Iran retaliates.

“Several social media accounts have claimed that Indian airspace was used by the United States to launch aircraft against Iran during Operation #MidnightHammer. This claim is fake,” PIB Fact Check said in a post on X.

“Indian Airspace was NOT used by the United States during Operation #MidnightHammer,” said the fact check unit of the Press Information Bureau that functions under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

It said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine had explained the route used by U.S. aircraft during a press briefing.

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Tripura government gives jobs to 18 next of kin of victims murdered in political violence

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Tripura Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ratan Lal Nath claimed that several families couldn’t even file FIRs with police, and many case records are missing.

Tripura Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ratan Lal Nath claimed that several families couldn’t even file FIRs with police, and many case records are missing.
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The Tripura Government has started the process of distributing job offers to families whose members were killed in incidents of political violence before the incumbent alliance government came to power in 2018. Jobs were handed to 18 next of kin of the victims, which an official on Sunday (June 22, 2025) described as the first phase of such recruitment.

“A committee was constituted to provide government jobs to persons whose family members were victims of political murders. So far, the panel has received 39 applications, and out of these, 18 persons have been given jobs,” Tripura Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ratan Lal Nath said at a press conference.

“Several families couldn’t even file FIRs with police, and many case records are missing,” he claimed.

The BJP-led government in December 2020 announced a scheme to provide jobs to next of kin of those killed in political violence over a period of 46 years with 2018 as the cutoff year. Thereafter, some jobs were disbursed to the affected families, but not blockwise like now.

A State Government official said 18 aspirants who were selected from the list recommended by a committee which was earlier set up to identify the victim families. “The primary consideration for recruitment is based on the financial condition of the families, but all those lost kin would also be considered in the next phases,” the official stated.

The apparent policy of the State Government is to support only non-left families who fell prey to violence during previous CPI(M)-led governments. The victims, according to the official assessment, had been connected with the Congress party, as it was the main Opposition party in the state before 2018.

CPI(M), now in opposition, alleged that the policy of providing government jobs only to non-left families is “inhumane”, as scores of left supporters were killed in political violence. A party leader pointed to targeted killings of left leaders, workers and supporters during the “repressive” five-year rule of the Congress-TUJS alliance government from 1988 to 1993.

(With PTI inputs)

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