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Mind The Crease-Lola Nayar

Pawar’s Report Card The Negatives     Per capita availability of cereals and pulses has fallen in last eight years     No improvement in irrigation, 60% of agriculture still dependent on monsoons     Farmers growing cereals, sugarcane, oilseeds and pulses assured higher MSP, but majority don't benefit     Production up, but not productivity. Farmer suicides are on the rise.     Poor market advisory on exports being misused to buy cheaply from farmers and make profits overseas     Pawar...

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The government needs to think out of the box to help pharma grow while keeping medicines affordable-Ramesh Adige

Having watched from the ringside for many years now, I have no doubt in advising that the steering wheel must be firmly grasped by the government and direction given to policies that should be stable for at least the medium term. This is crucial for the growth of Indian pharma, a $20-billion industry growing at an average of 12% considering both domestic and export arenas. Price control: The biggest and most...

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Godown ache for rice target

-The Telegraph The Bengal government could find it difficult to reach its target of procuring 20 lakh tonnes of rice this year because of a lack of storage space. Its ability to raise storage capacity too could be hobbled by lack of investor interest in setting up warehouses in Bengal, and a mismatch between the tender rates acceptable to the state and the Centre. “We’ve a target of procuring 20 lakh MT (metric...

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Government under attack in Lok Sabha on price issue

-PTI Government came under attack in the Lok Sabha today on the issue of price rise with the Left parties demanding that an all-party meeting as also a conference of Chief Ministers be convened soon to take concrete steps to check the price line.  Raising the issue during Zero Hour, CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharia accused the government of "total failure" in reining prices despite several assurances from the Prime Minister and the...

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Foodgrains scam: CBI searches 12 locations

-The Hindu Sleuths from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted searches in 12 locations in Lucknow district on Saturday in connection with the multi-crore foodgrains scam in Uttar Pradesh. The scam relates to sale of wheat and rice — meant for distribution to the poor — in the black market from 2002 to 2007, and was estimated to be of the order of around Rs. 35,000 crore. The locations included those in...

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