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Ravi Kaushal
Haryana: Urea Shortage Persists, Farmers Fear Crop Losses
05 Jan 2022
Reports of a tussle between farmers and local administrations in Bhiwani, Kaithal and Yamunanagar are abuzz in local newspapers with farmers even gheraoing state agriculture minister JP Dalal in his…
Prabhat Patnaik
How MGNREGS is Gradually Being Choked of Funds
05 Dec 2021
The Narendra Modi government has carried the practice of making low budgetary allocations for MGNREGS to its limit.
Prabhat Patnaik
The Indian Agricultural Situation Must Not Be Misread
06 Nov 2021
A country-wide MSP regime thus gives the kisans everywhere an assured income without having much effect on government stocks, and a rise in MSP raises this assured income without increasing…
D. Raghunandan
Push for Ethanol-Blended Petrol: A Road that Leads to Nowhere
29 Oct 2021
The government’s
Prabhat Patnaik
Despite Mass Hunger, Modi Govt Keen to Divert Foodgrains
24 Oct 2021
Foodgrains being used for ethanol production matter little for the US since it does not have to worry about mass hunger. But the Modi government, not to be outdone, has also announced an ambitious…
Sagrika Kissu
Centre Withholds Funds to Punjab for Current Wheat Procurement Season, Farmers to be Most Affected
08 Jun 2021
The state government has accused the Centre of “penalising” it for raising its voice against the farm laws.
Ravi Kaushal
What the Dhand Anaj Mandi Tells us about Farm Laws and their Implications
23 Apr 2021
'What will happen when silos, as mammoth as the current ones with a capacity of two lakh metric tonnes, pop up in different locations across the state?'
Subodh Varma
Mr. Modi, Any Plan for the Economy?
15 Apr 2021
With the new wave of COVID-19 sweeping across the country, a swathe of states have imposed various kinds of restrictions, from nigh
Ravi Kaushal
'Save FCI, Save PDS': Farmers Tell Centre Through Pan-India Protests
05 Apr 2021
Intensifying their protest against the Farm Laws, farmers’ organisations on Monday gheraoed the offices of the Food Corporation of India in a series
Shinzani Jain
Are We Staring at Another Phase of Dilution of PDS in India?
18 Mar 2021
On February 28, 2020, it was reported that the central governm