-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Real estate developers across the country are in a quandary as the Centre has stopped them from marketing ongoing projects yet to be registered with their respective state's real estate regulatory authority (Rera), and most state governments are neither ready with rules under the new Act, nor have they created the authorities. In a written clarification to the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), the Union...
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Kharif sowing acreage up 10%
-The Hindu Business Line Area under oilseeds and cotton up; pulses acreage slides New Delhi: Notwithstanding a sluggish monsoon and farmer unrest in different parts of the country, agriculture is picking up momentum, with all crops other than pulses showing an upswing in the sowing area. According to data released by the Union Agriculture Ministry on Friday, there has been a 10 per cent increase in the area under cultivation so far, with...
More »Paint 'I Am Poor' on Your Walls, Rajasthan Government Tells BPL Families
-TheWire.in Unable to fix its public distribution system, the state government humiliates the poor by marking their houses. New Delhi: From being in denial over violence in her state to allegedly ‘using an army of paid trolls’ to defend herself on Twitter, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in the past few weeks. This latest news from Dausa district will not exactly help Raje’s...
More »Crop prices and farmers' unrest -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business line Distressed farmers are demanding loan waivers, but that should not deflect focus from what needs to be done and undone to address the root cause of the agrarian crisis The farmers’ unrest across the country, and particularly across several BJP-ruled States, appears to have caught the central government by surprise. But it should really not have done so. Ever since candidate Narendra Modi in 2014 promised the farmers...
More »Behind the farmer unrest in Haryana there is a history of instability in crop prices -Abhishek Dey
-Scroll.in After the unprecedented collapse of the price of potatoes, farmers in the state are faced with low prices for their crop of sunflower seeds and maize. At around 10 am on Friday, 58-year-old Devi Dayal Sharma sat on a chair, surrounded by several quintals of sunflower seeds, at the Shahabad mandi, around 20 km from Kurukshetra town in Haryana. Sharma is a sunflower cultivator from a Padlu village in Kurukshetra...
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