-The Hindu India's small farmers have been struggling for centuries now and they need social and governmental action to change their future Of India's 121 million agricultural holdings, 99 million are with small and marginal farmers, with a land share of just 44 per cent and a farmer population share of 87 per cent. With multiple cropping prevalent, such farmers account for 70 per cent of all vegetables and 52 per cent...
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BJP MPs spent crores of taxpayers' money at five star hotel: reports
-CNN-IBN The Narendra Modi government's austerity polices have taken a hit after an RTI report claimed that many BJP MPs enjoyed their overstay at five-star hotels on tax-payers' money. The RTI report showed that till November 15,2014, 92 MPs, since their election, several of them from the BJP, have been living at the Ashoka Hotel in Delhi, in spite of being allotted the government accommodation, said an IBN Live report. The report further...
More »Government ties itself up in knots over Greenpeace activist travel Restraint -Aman Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai was named in a secret Intelligence Bureau (IB) note to the Centre last June for leading a protest against the Mahan Coal block, which is said to be the reason for her being stopped from leaving India for UK on Sunday. "She has been on a watch-list since. Many of her provocative statements issued later have also been brought on record. The step...
More »Decoding the oil price fall -Raghuvir Srinivasan
-The Hindu Year 2015 will be crucial as shale oil firms begin to feel the pinch of low prices Are falling oil prices good or bad for the global economy? And how do they work for India? Till recently these questions were no-brainers. Cheaper oil is obviously good for the global economy; for an energy-intensive economy such as India's, which also depends on imported oil for meeting four-fifths of its needs, a...
More »Revisiting rural indebtedness - CP Chandrasekhar
-Frontline The problem in rural India is not one of too much credit to poor households that leads to debt waivers that damage bank balance sheets, but one of inadequate access to credit from formal sources. IF Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan is to be believed, efforts to help Indian farmers by providing them with cheap(er) credit and relieving them of an unsustainable debt burden only harms them in the...
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