-ThePrint.in MP-Bundelkhand is silently increasing its economic might, powered by its agricultural sector. Growth in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand, on the other hand, has stagnated. With the ongoing assembly election in Uttar Pradesh ready to witness the third phase of polling on 20 February, covering the Bundelkhand region, we shift our focus towards the economies of a region that is often ignored in economic discussions. Earlier, we looked into Western and Eastern regions...
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Will form committee on MSP after assembly polls: Tomar tells RS
-PTI/ ThePrint.in New Delhi: The government is committed to forming a panel on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and the Election Commission has said it can be done after the polls are over, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. While announcing the repeal of three farm laws in November last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to set up a committee to discuss the farmers’ demand...
More »Official data on determinants of fertility has lessons for the misguided electorate
The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electorate who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment generation, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...
More »Former CECs flag political hurdles, security concerns over e-voting -Damini Nath
-The Hindu Opinion comes at a time when Telangana SEC is set to carry out an e-voting experiment Former Chief Election Commissioners (CEC) have raised a range of concerns, from maintaining secrecy of ballots to bringing political parties on board, around the idea of online voting and remote voting, at a time the Telangana State Election Commission is set to carry out an e-voting experiment and the Election Commission of India, too,...
More »NDTV Exclusive: BJP Got Rs. 2,555 Crore From Electoral Bonds In 2019-20, 76% Of Total -Arvind Gunasekar
-NDTV.com Altogether electoral bonds worth ₹ 3,355 crore were sold in 2019-20, of which the BJP income was ₹ 2,555 crore. New Delhi: The BJP has gathered a whopping 76 per cent of the electoral bonds sold in the financial year 2019-20, shows data accessed by NDTV from the Election Commission. Altogether electoral bonds worth ₹ 3,355 crore were sold in 2019-20, of which the BJP income was ₹ 2,555 crore. This...
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