-The Telegraph HINTERLAND: Our structural problem — small and marginal rain-fed sustenance farms, over 80 per cent of India’s agriculture sector — remains unaddressed Let’s understand the chronology: before the 2014 general elections, Narendra Modi promised farmers that he would comply with the Swaminathan Commission formula to arrive at a minimum support price for farm produce: a 50 per cent profit over the production cost. Post elections, he reneged on the promise...
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More migrants returning to Bangladesh, shows BSF data -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu Till December this year, 3,173 persons were caught leaving against 1,115 entering In the past four years, nearly twice the number of illegal Bangladeshi migrants were caught leaving the country compared to those coming in illegally, according to data available with the Border Security Force (BSF) and the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) shows. Till December 14 this year, as many as 3,173 illegal migrants were apprehended by the BSF when...
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-The Hindu The events of the pandemic show how it is the need of the hour to modernise India’s archaic tax laws The word ‘lockdown’, which is Collins Dictionary’s word of the year, sums up the pain that the world underwent in 2020. As a result of the pandemic-induced lockdown, India’s GDP contracted consecutively for two quarters from April to September 2020. Some have gained from the pandemic. India’s super rich only became...
More »Superpower? India First Needs to Save Its Children & Women from Malnutrition -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Latest health survey (NFHS-5) reveals shocking levels of anaemia and malnutrition in states. In a chilling report, the latest National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 has found that some states have one-third to nearly half of young children (up to 5 years of age) suffering from low weight, stunting and wasting, all symptoms of chronic lack of healthy food. In addition, an unconscionable half to over THRee-fourth of children, and one-third to...
More »24 proposed projects in Telangana spell danger for tigers -V Nilesh
-The New Indian Express According to sources, road widening, upgradation or construction projects proposals are THRough the forests where the tigers were recently sighted. HYDERABAD: There have been many tiger sightings in different forest areas of Telangana in the past few months, boosting hopes for revival of State’s forests which form an important part of central Indian tiger landscape. However, The New Indian Express has found that there are 24 road widening, upgradation...
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