-The Indian Express He claimed that around 12 crore farmers would benefit from the scheme and an amount of Rs 75,000 crore would be given under this scheme every year. Gorakhpur: DESCRIBING THE Congress, SP and BSP as “maha-milawati (highly adulterated)” and accusing them of “cheating farmers” for political gains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna (PM-KISAN) with the promise of including those who...
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US, Canada may object to India's quantitative cap on pulses imports -Rutam Vora
-The Hindu Business Line Senior Commerce Ministry official says discussions will be conducted before a dispute is filed at WTO Ahmedabad: India is set for another trade face-off with the United States and Canada at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). According to a senior Union Commerce Ministry official, the US along with Canada is likely to raise objection at the WTO opposing quantitative cap on pulses imports. This is separate from the objections...
More »Dishonouring the verdict -Apar Gupta and Abhinav Sekhri
-The Indian Express On the ground, SC ruling on Section 66A is frequently violated. In October 2018, we published a small study revealing how Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act 2000 [“IT Act”] continued to be used to prosecute persons despite being struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in Shreya Singhal (2015). We suggested that this afterlife was not merely wanton exercise of power by the police but...
More »Rural tourism opens up new livelihood options for coastal communities -T Appala Naidu
-The Hindu Women make a decent living selling groundnut to beach visitors MANGINAPUDI: Several women living in the stretch of villages along the 9-km beach road have found a new opportunity to earn income — tapping the benefits being offered by the flourishing rural tourism with the development of the famous Manginapudi beach in Krishna district. Under a temporary thatched store, they sell groundnut mostly grown in the sandy soil along the beach...
More »Without land or recourse -Kalpana Kannabiran
-The Hindu The Supreme Court order on the eviction of forest dwellers raises very disturbing questions The order of the Supreme Court issued on February 13 with respect to the claims of forest-dwelling peoples in India — the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers — is a case of the Supreme Court speaking against itself. In effect, the court has ordered the eviction of lakhs of people whose claims as forest...
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