-The Telegraph Farmers from BJP-ruled states join hands with Punjab comrades to push back against the ruling party’s attempts to discredit the agitation against the Modi government’s farm laws Farmers from BJP-ruled Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh joined their comrades from Punjab at Delhi’s borders on Saturday, pushing back against the ruling party’s attempts to discredit the agitation against the Narendra Modi government’s farm laws by labelling it variously as “Khalistani”...
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Prof. Paramjit Singh Judge, president of the Indian Sociological Society, interviewed by Ajaz Ashraf (Newsclick.in)
-Newsclick.in As the farmers from Punjab and Haryana camp outside Delhi, Prof Judge explains the nature of the agriculture crisis gripping Punjab, why the three farm laws will prove disastrous to them, and the Narendra Modi government’s indifferent attitude towards their problems. Currently the president of the Indian Sociological Society, Professor Paramjit Singh Judge taught at the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, for well over two decades. Social Change Through Land Reforms...
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-Financial Express Big e-commerce companies having deep pockets are leaving no stone unturned in monopolizing the e-commerce business and retail trade of India with their malpractices and violating FDI policy, traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. CAIT, which has been campaigning against Amazon and Flipkart for years now alleging unethical business practices by them, said that the absence...
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-The New Indian Express As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and State Governments are gearing up to administer them en masse. KOCHI: As the much-awaited vaccines to fight Covid-19 inch closer to realisation and production on a large scale, the Central and State Governments are gearing up to administer them en masse.Who are to receive vaccinations first has been...
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