-The Hindu Business Line Only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19, shows data The amount of money disbursed as LPG subsidy by the Centre has been steadily coming down since 2019-20. According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, only ₹242 crore was transferred as LPG subsidies in FY22 compared to ₹37,209 crore in 2018-19. This was when the maximum number of...
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India’s abortion law seems liberal but is driven by a population control logic – not women’s rights -Mytheli Sreenivas
-Scroll.in The MTP Act disregards women’s health and rights to regulate reproduction at all costs. With its decision to end constitutional protections for abortion in the recent case of Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court made that country a global outlier on abortion law and policy. At a moment when many governments around the world are liberalising their regulation of abortion care, the US has opened the...
More »Plight of the small peasantry in Punjab is affecting their mental health, highlights field-based study
Door-to-door and village-to-village surveys carried out by researchers of the Department of Economics and Sociology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana detected a total of 9,291 suicides that were committed by farmers in six districts of Punjab during the period from 2000 to 2018. Situated in the Malwa region of Punjab, which is known for cotton farming and the prevalence of cancer among its population, Sangrur (2,506) witnessed the highest number of...
More »No respite for common man? After wheat and flour, now prices of maida soar -Harpreet Bajwa
-The New Indian Express The market buzz is that at Kandla port in Gujarat, from where maida is traded abroad, the price has touched around Rs 3,000 per quintal. CHANDIGARH: The prices of maida (refined wheat flour) are soaring due to escalating international prices following the Ukraine conflict. The result is bakery products such as bread and biscuits could be costlier soon. Sources said the price of wheat has touched Rs 2,350 per...
More »Assam: Deficient Rain After Massive Floods add to Worries of Paddy Farmers -Sandipan Talukdar
-Newsclick.in Following the floods in June, Assam has seen periods of rain deficiency in the last two weeks, disrupting the paddy cultivation for farmers in the state. “Bohag Matho Eti Ritu Nohoi Nohoi Bohag Eti Maah Axomiya Jatir Ee Aayush Rekha Gono Jibonor Ee Xaah.” These lines by Bhupen Hazarika indicate that ‘Bohag’ (the starting month of the year), for the people of Assam, especially the farmers, is not merely a month or a season; it...
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