-Livemint.com Farm loan waivers are a bad idea. They were a bad idea in 2008 when the UPA was in power, and continue to be so in 2017 with the NDA in power Several parts of India are in the grip of an agrarian crisis. In part, this is because of the cumulative effect of bad monsoons. Farmers in many parts of India are still dependent on the annual rains which were deficient...

-The Hindu Indiscriminate digging of farm ponds has accelerated groundwater extraction The Maharashtra government’s flagship Jalyukt Shivar Yojana has been touted as a drought-proofing scheme, but a field study conducted by South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) gives a different picture. The organisation carried out the study at Hiwargaon-Pawasa, a backwater village with a population of 1,500, in Ahmadnagar district’s Sangamner Taluk. The research presents a microcosmic example of how...

-The Indian Express Protests by the people against inequality are producing governments that move exactly in the opposite direction We all know that the world is an unequal place, both across and within countries. We also know that across the world, people are expressing their anger and disgust at this inequality. This is increasingly revealed in extreme and often paradoxical political results. In the US, a vote against the establishment has just...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to take a call by Friday on providing daily doses of medicine to tuberculosis patients in place of the prevailing thrice-a-week regimen that is considered ineffective to combat the disease. A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar, said people could not be allowed to suffer till June 2018, the cut-off date proposed by the Centre to introduce the...

-The Hindu After probe revealed a sudden surge in such deposits revealing various inconsistencies Account holders once again urged by Central Board of Direct Taxes not to consent to any kind of misuse of their accounts which would expose them to the dangers of being held responsible for the tax evasion by UNSCrupulous elements. Investigation being conducted by the Income Tax Department across India into the sudden surge in cash deposits in jan...