-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...
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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 »Launching KISAN, PM Modi says states that oppose will face farmers' curse -Avaneesh Mishra
-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...
More »A women-owned dairy in Andhra Pradesh eyes the big league -AD Rangarajan
-The Hindu With a strength of over 83,000, it procures 3.5 lakh litres of milk a day Tirupati: Before Shreeja entered her life, middle-aged Gangamma of Palamaner mandal in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district had to be content with the daily drudgery of maintaining her barn and selling the milk from her cows to a private supplier. And that came with the attendant problems of first realising payments from the buyer, and once...
More »Farmers defined as those having patta for cultivable land -B Chandrashekhar
-The Hindu KCR appeals to pattadar ryots to have a benevolent attitude towards tenants Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao defined in the Assembly on Saturday that only those having cultivable patta landholding are recognised as farmers as matter of government policy and it’s they who will get the benefit of any government scheme aimed at the farming community. “It’s not our (government) policy to harass the farmers by creating problems in the...
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