-Scroll.in The state paid Rs 15 lakh to actor Hema Malini and Rs 10 lakh to Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari for their performances at the Gita Mahotsav in November 2017. The Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana spent Rs 3,79,500 to buy just 10 copies of the Bhagavad Gita during the International Gita Mahotsav in 2017, The Times of India reported on Tuesday. The Kurukshetra Development Board provided information about...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 86
Why farmers are likely to ignore Mohan Bhagwat's prescriptions on cattle-based farming -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com Drastic fall in ownership of male cattle in rural India is testimony to the benefits of farm mechanization in agriculture New Delhi: Delivering his customary Vijayadashami speech, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat advised farmers to adopt “cow-based farming” practices as a way out of poverty. “When we talk about farming with less capital, organic in nature, naturally the point is raised that the large number of farmers in our...
More »Farmers' protests shake Narendra Modi's 2019 bid as Indian economy slows -Archana Chaudhary
-Livemint.com For Narendra Modi, the protests involving hundreds of thousands of farmers highlight his struggle to deliver on the promises that swept him to power New Delhi: Anger over falling farm incomes has spilled onto streets across a swathe of India’s largest states as farmers struggle with food price deflation and a breakdown of the informal agriculture economy. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi—already grappling with a sharp economic slowdown and looming job cuts...
More »Himanshu, an associate professor in economics at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, interviewed by Nitin Sethi (Scroll.in)
-Scroll.in JNU professor Himanshu says the economic slowdown is not the result of a one-off event like demonetisation, the slump began almost two years ago. The economy is in a trough. The first quarter of 2017-2018 saw the growth of gross domestic product (the total value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year) drop to 5.7% from 7.9% in the corresponding period last year – the...
More »Sangh arm slams Niti -JP Yadav
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's labour arm has accused the Niti Aayog of being committed to a powerful corporate lobby, said it was responsible for giving the Narendra Modi government an anti-labour face and called for revamping the think tank. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh's scathing criticism of the think tank - that has replaced the Congress-era Planning Commission - coincided with celebrations by the BJP and the government to...
More »
