-The Pioneer Ludhiana: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that the state is fully ready to adopt crop diversification but the Central Government must provide an assured mechanism to give remunerative PRIces for these crops. “The Centre must take this step for ensuring that the state’s farmers shift from water guzzling crops to less water consuming crops,” said the Chief Minister while addressing a gathering after inaugurating the Kisan Mela...

-PTI/ NDTV.com The ministry also said that the recent changes in India's rice export rules "have helped keep a check on domestic PRIces" without reducing the availability for exports. New Delhi: Domestic rice PRIces are showing an upward trend and it "may continue to increase" due to low kharif production forecast and 11 per cent jump in export of non-basmati rice, the food ministry said today. The statement was made in the fact...

-Hindustan Times The government is considering PRIce-control measures, such as asking traders to declare their available wheat stocks, and a crackdown on hoarding of grains, he said. India has ample wheat for federally run welfare programmes but speculative trading has pushed up cereal PRIces, prompting the government to consider measures, such as disclosure of stocks by PRIvate traders, a senior official said. The Union government is watching PRIce and stock movements closely and...

-The Hindu The Census in India is about many things — it must be made a PRIority and used to affirm a sense of comradeship Among the best uses of a census anywhere in the world was perhaps what happened in the United States when, in 1850 and 1860, anti-slavery campaigners used numbers from two consecutive national censuses to build support for the abolition of slavery. They showed the number of enslaved...

-The Telegraph The ambit of the corpus created to fight public health emergencies widened but its veil stays intact The veil on the PM Cares Fund — the corpus created to battle the Covid-19 crisis without the tiresome need for any audit scrutiny — remained firmly in place even as its newly-appointed trustees decided on Wednesday to widen the scope of its operations. PRIme Minister Narendra Modi chaired a virtual meeting of the...