-The Tribune Farmers are use homemade alternatives for cultivation;  state Government records say 146,438 farmers, including 14,000 apple growers, in the hill state are doing natural farming either partially or fully, over 8,268 hectares Shimla: Amid the widespread shortage of fertilisers in the ongoing planting season in several states largely owing to spiking international prices, farmers in Himachal Pradesh are using homemade alternatives for cultivation that are not only safer for the...

-Newsclick.in The Narendra Modi Government has carried the practice of making low budgetary allocations for MGNREGS to its limit. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or MGNREGS was introduced by the United Progressive Alliance-I Government despite opposition from the neo-liberal lobby within it, owing inter alia to the active intervention of the Left, which was supporting that Government from outside. The scheme was restrictive from the beginning: it promised a maximum...

-Newslaundry.com Given that the issue is so political, all nuance has gone out of the window. A deepdive on what the demand actually means for the Government and farmers. In her new book Cogs and Monsters—What Economics is and What It Should Be, the British economist Diane Coyle uses the word nuance thrice. She writes that “politics and nuance are strangers”. And that “the eye of the public is caught, by confident statements...

-News18.com A team constituted by Bijnor District Officer Umesh Kumar is investigating the matter. A portion of the proposed seven-and-a-half-kilometre road, constructed by the Irrigation Division in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor, broke at the time of the inaugural ceremony. The incident occurred in the presence of the BJP MLA Suchi Chaudhary. The Government had sanctioned an amount of Rs 1,16,38000 for the construction of the road. Following the embarrassing situation, the district magistrate...

-IndiaTomorrow.net NEW DELHI— Justice (retd) A K Ganguly has said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) passed by the BJP Government in 2019 is flawed and goes against the fundamental tenets of the Constitution. Justice Ganguly made his comments while speaking at a webinar organized by the Forum for Democracy and Communal Amity (FDCA) on “Equality, Non-Discrimination, and Citizenship in Indian Constitution”. “In the Constitution, you will not find even a whisper of...