-PTI NEW DELHI: Nearly 90 per cent of the Rajya Sabha MPs are crorepatis while the average of total assets Upper House parliamentarians is Rs 55 crore, says a report. The report is based on an analysis of the self-sworn affidavits of 229 out of 233 sitting Rajya Sabha MPs by the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). "Out of the 229 sitting Rajya Sabha MPs analysed, 201 (88 per...
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Budget is depressive, will lead to more farmer suicides: Experts -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express Sukhdev Singh Kokari Kalan, general SECretary of BKU (Ugrahan), said that Captain Amarinder Singh had not fulfilled his promise and the policies he is bringing in the budget is ‘suicidal’ for the farmers. Jalandhar: The farming community, which is under acute depression due to long goining agrarian crisis, were left disappointed as the Congress government in Punjab announced its SECond budget Saturday. Experts and farmers of Punjab have...
More »Agricultural workers suicides rising, but 2016 data shows overall drop in farmer suicides
-The Hindu More agricultural workers committed suicide in 2016, but the overall number of suicides in the farm SECtor dipped almost 10% in comparison with the previous year, according to provisional data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that the Agriculture Ministry shared with Parliament on Tuesday. Overall, 11,370 people in the farming SECtor committed suicide in 2016, in comparison to 12,602 the previous year. From 2014, the NCRB has been dividing...
More »Big rise in farmer suicides in four states during 2016, says NCRB data -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard In absolute numbers, farmer suicides in Haryana and Punjab were less than in Maharashtra, which continued to be Number-1 Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Karnataka, which have large tracts under irrigation and have maintained high agricultural production levels, saw a surge in farmer suicides during 2016, as compared to 2015, provisional data showed. This contrasts with the traditional suicide hotbeds of Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — they saw a fall...
More »Wilful defaults increased by 152 per cent during Modi regime -Vandana
-TheWeek.in Wilful defaults, loans which are deliberately not repaid by companies despite having the capacity to do so, have surged 152 per cent in the last four years of Modi government. A new report prepared by Pinkerton – a risk management consultancy along with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry – says that both gross NPAs and wilful defaults have been going up post 2008 financial crisis. The value of wilful defaults...
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