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Kashif Kakvi
Sudden Wheat Export Ban Costs MP Traders Dearly
19 Jun 2022
The looming uncertainty over the export policy and traders hoarding the stock of cancelled orders are leading to the unprecedented surge in the rate of wheat in MP.
Subodh Varma
Modi Govt Struggles to Control Runaway Price Rise
15 May 2022
Along with wheat and atta, prices of vegetables, cooking oils, milk and LPG cylinders are all zooming up.
Subodh Varma
Can Modi Govt Handle Approaching Wheat Crisis?
08 May 2022
Production has dipped for the first time in the Modi era and procurement has plummeted, bringing wheat stocks down and affecting foodgrain-based schemes.
Subodh Varma
Food for Votes? Is Hunger Relevant Only Till Elections?
20 Mar 2022
Current foodgrain stocks are twice the statutory limit, procurement is at an all-time high, as is output – yet the Modi government is silent on extending the free ration scheme.
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP Elections: Mirzapur’s Bamboo Product Makers Fail to Feature in Poll Agendas
04 Mar 2022
The Benvanshi Dhakar community stands at the bottom of all indices, the most backward and neglected even among the SCs.
T Lalita
Pandemic Calls for Replanning Cities to Suit Working Class Needs
21 Feb 2022
The government’s mismanagement of the second COVID-19 wave exposed the flaws of urban planning, which has always ignored workers.
Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal: Lower Foodgrain Allocation by Centre Under PMGKAY Hurting the Poor
12 Feb 2022
The Union Cabinet had extended the 5kg free foodgrain scheme till March 2022, but ration shop owners claim the allocation has been drastically cut.
C. Saratchand
International Finance and the Contractionary Macroeconomics of Union Budget 2022-23
07 Feb 2022
Why is the Union government distinguishing between a stagnant/falling government revenue expenditure and an apparent rise in the capital expenditure the highlight of its strategy in the Union Budget?
Tarique Anwar, Abdul Alim Jafri
UP Elections: Touching Stories of Migrant Workers’ Suicides in Vast Interiors
07 Feb 2022
Migrant labourers found themselves most vulnerable upon returning to their native villages with the onset of the pandemic. Many were utterly helpless to feed their families and consequently were…
Abdul Alim Jafri
UP Elections: Unlike ‘Kairana Exodus’, Migration from Bundelkhand Not Made Poll Pitch
04 Feb 2022
Primarily inhabited by the scheduled caste community, Bundelkhand is home to the most backward villages — where Yogi government's developmental schemes have not reached. NewsClick visits these…