-NDTV There is the reality of a farmer's suicide and then there are versions of this reality. Whether you choose to accept the farmer's context of poverty, debt and extreme risk, or deny it, often depends on the class and profession you belong to. Fields pockmarked with brown mounds create a surreal setting. At least nine suicides by farmers have been linked to the crisis in West Bengal's potato belt. Farmers have...
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Devlopment needs resources like water, power, land
-PTI On the controversial land Bill, Kasturirangan told reporters on the sidelines of an International Conference on Innovative Research here that the Centre was going all out to explain the proposed legislation to the people at the grassroots. Former ISRO chairman Dr K Kasturirangan on Thursday said that development requires resources like water, power and land for manufacturing and creating jobs. On the controversial land Bill, Kasturirangan told reporters on the sidelines...
More »No slowdown in bank lending to agriculture sector -Radhika Merwin
-The Hindu Business Line This is result of lacklustre credit growth to India Inc and tough priority sector lending norms Credit growth in the banking system continues to languish below the 10 per cent mark, far lower than the 14 per cent seen a year back. But there is one segment that has managed to grow faster than last year - loans to the agriculture sector. These grew 16.5 per cent in...
More »UNESCO to ask PM Modi to introduce programmes for reducing rapes in India -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: UNESCO to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi to introduce a spate of formal and non-formal programmes "to change the mind set of men" in India in order to reduce rapes in the country. In an exclusive interview with TOI, UNESCO's director general Bokova said "India needs to work with boys and use them as advocates of gender equality." "We need a strong political leadership in India for the...
More »Supreme Court to hear plea against re-promulgated land ordinance on Monday
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday the plea of farmers' organisations challenging legality of the fresh promulgation of the land acquisition ordinance by the Narendra Modi-led government. "We will have it on Monday," a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra said, when senior advocate Indira Jaisingh, appearing for farmers' organisations sought urgent hearing of the petition. The farmers' organisations, in their plea...
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