-Livemint.com/ PTI Ashok Gehlot demanded that PM Modi reconsider the agriculture laws to protect the Interests of farmers and democratic values Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday demanded the central government reconsider the three new farm laws against which farmers are staging protests. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the chief minister said that even when GDP growth rate has been -7.5 per cent in the financial year 2020-21,...
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'Misled’, ‘brainwashed’, ‘instigated’: How primetime TV covered farmer protests -Anna Priyadarshini
-Newslaundry.com ‘The prime minister assured that MSP will be given to farmers. What more assurance do you want?’ asked Arnab Goswami. As thousands of farmers marched on Delhi to protest against the farm laws brought by the Modi regime which they say favour corporations over their Interests, they were met with teargas, water cannons and lathicharge. To prevent the farmers from reaching Delhi, the police in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh had blockaded the...
More »Stepping out of the shadow of India’s malnutrition -Amartya Paul and Upasak Das
-The Hindu An immediate universalisation of the PDS, distribution of quality food items and community kitchens are a few solutions “School-er prarthana sabhar somoy hotat matha ghure pore jaoar ghotona hamesai ghotte dekhi amra. Beshirbhag khetrei ora mid-day-meal khete chaay naa, jiggesh korle bole pete byatha hochhe, Sir (There have been numerous instances during the prayer session in schools where we often observe students feeling sick and falling down out of dizziness....
More »The migrant worker as a ghost among citizens -Sampath G
-The Hindu A new publication contends that their lockdown misery was no anomaly but an effect of exclusion from full citizenship When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s most stringent lockdown on March 24, 2020 with barely four hours notice, lakhs of migrant workers across the country found themselves trapped in a novel situation: their livelihood in the city was gone, but they could not return to their native villages. The...
More »India’s no to RCEP could still be a no -Biswajit Dhar
-The Hindu The circumstances under which New Delhi had distanced itself from the RCEP negotiations have hardly improved Last week, 15 East Asian countries agreed to take their economic integration several notches higher by forging the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the largest free trade agreement (FTA) ever. In 2019, RCEP members accounted for about 30% of world output and population and 28% of world trade. But more importantly, about 44% of...
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