-Hindustan Times Edible-oil PRIces continue to be dearer due to high global PRIces, prompting the Union government last week to tighten measures Vegetable PRIces, especially of tomato and onion, have risen in urban centres, including the national capital, on the back of higher fuel PRIces and damage to summer crops due to heavy rains, wholesale and retail trade data showed on Sunday.  Edible-oil PRIces continue to be dearer due to high global PRIces,...

When one of the three farm laws i.e., The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 was enacted last year, it was argued by its proponents that the legislation would allow the farmers to sell their produce (and the traders to purchase that produce) outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee-APMC mandis after crop harvesting. In a way, that particular piece of legislation was enacted to end the...

-The Hindu Business Line Farmers likely to switch over as oilseed PRIces are 67% higher Vs MSP Mustard is set to gain area from wheat and chana as farmers are seen planting more of the oilseed crop this rabi sowing season. The trade expects farmers to increase the area on account of higher PRIces and favourable climate, even as the early sowing has begun in the key producing States of Rajasthan and...

-The Hindu Developed countries have committed under the Paris Agreement to allocate $ 100 billion per year from 2020 onwards to facilitate emission cuts in poorer countries and also to effect technology transfer in this context. Questions around how the $100 billion yearly commitment towards climate finance will be measured, and related technology transfer accounted for, remain unanswered, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at the conclusion of the Washington DC leg...

-Newsclick.in Petrol and diesel PRIces have also zoomed, as Modi government rakes in over Rs.3.73 lakh crore as tax. The Central government continues to squeeze millions of Indians by relentlessly raising the PRIces of essential fuels, such as cooking gas and petrol/diesel. In the past one year, the PRIce of a standard 14.2 kg cylinder of cooking gas (LPG) has been hiked by an incredible Rs.301.75, from Rs.604.63 (average of four metros)...