-The Tribune In India, there is a concerted campaign to discredit the arhtiya, building the case for bringing in agri-business companies. There is certainly a need to regulate the middlemen, but the American experience shows how the consolidation of the meat industry, leading to market concentration in the hands of a few companies, is making it difficult for livestock farmers to survive. WHILE Indian policy makers and economists haven’t drawn any lessons...

-NDTV.com Lakhimpur-Kheri Case: Thousands of pages of the chargesheet were brought to the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Lakhimpur town in a big trunk secured by two locks earlier this morning by the police Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police's special investigation team probing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident where four farmers and a journalist were murdered during an anti-farm law protest last October has submitted a 5,000-page chargesheet to a local...

-The Hindu Business Line Railways has operated approximately 1,642 Kisan Rail services out of which 1,239 services are operated in Maharashtra Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar on August 7, 2020 flagged off the country’s first Kisan Rail train from Deolali in Nashik (Maharashtra) to Danapur in Bihar. Since then farmers of Maharashtra have reaped maximum benefits of the rail services. The Indian Railways has operated approximately 1,642...

Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system of anti-tank guided missiles in Jhansi. The foundation was laid for the first project in the Jhansi node (related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) on November 18, 2021. The two...

-The Telegraph In India, inequality has been normalised While we know that inequality is bad, we do not deal with it. In India, we have normalized it, just like brazen communalization, bigotry and untruth. This is perhaps because many of us are complicit in perpetuating the inequality. Some data released this month provide a grim commentary on what is happening in the underbelly of the country. Scan through the regional dailies and you...