-PTI/ Business Standard Potato prices in both producing and consuming areas across India have crashed 50 per cent to Rs 5-6 per kg this year on account of good rabi (winter) crop, as per the Government data Potato prices in both producing and consuming areas across India have crashed 50 per cent to Rs 5-6 per kg this year on account of good rabi (winter) crop, as per the Government data. While consumers...
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Sanctity of poll -Sam Rajappa
-The Statesman Assembly elections in the States of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union Territory of Puducherry to be held between 27 March and 29 April come at a time the prestigious US-based Freedom House report has lowered India’s rank from a “free” to a “partially free” country and Sweden’s V-Dem Institute which once described India as the world’s largest democracy as an “electoral autocracy.” The Government can either...
More »Opposition parties cry foul on farm report -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph A day later, Congress and TMC, which has the chairmanship of the committee, said it was a misrepresentation and evidence of the BJP’s “dirty tricks department in action ” New Delhi: Opposition parties were left scrambling for an explanation after a parliamentary panel in which they had representation green-signalled one of the three contentious farm laws in a report tabled in Parliament on Friday. In the report tabled in the Lok...
More »West Bengal Assembly Elections: From land movement to industry, Singur’s resistance has come full circle -Shiv Sahay Singh and Sudipta Datta
-The Hindu Amid Trinmool-BJP clash in the Hooghly belt, Left revives former CM’s slogan, pushing for development. Singur: A pile of drain pipes surrounded by farmlands reaping a good potato harvest is all that remains on the 997-acre plot in Singur where the Tata Motors’ Nano factory once stood. It is almost impossible to locate the site of the factory whose structure was demolished by controlled explosions after the Supreme Court verdict in...
More »Cutting across party lines, House panel tells govt to give effect to 1 of 3 farm laws -Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express The stated position of most of these parties is against all three laws; the Congress wants them repealed. The Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, which has members from 13 parties including BJP, Congress, TMC, AAP, NCP and Shiv Sena, has asked the Government to implement the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 in “letter and spirit.” The Act is one of the three contentious farm laws against...
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