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Modi govt can bring real agriculture reforms only by working with states

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Civil servant trainees

First mission of Modi’s Mission Karmayogi must be to not repeat mistakes of past reforms

Karnamadakala Rahul Sharma -
A farmer ploughing with cattle (Representational image)

Most small farmers outside formal credit system. Sitharaman’s announcements won’t help them

Shoumitro Chatterjee -
File photo | An employee inspects a godown of Food Corporation of India (FCI) where rice bags are being stored during a nationwide lockdown, in Srinagar | PTI

Flaws of India’s welfare system are visible in our fight against Covid-19

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Vendor with potato sacks. | ANI

Coronavirus pandemic is ominous news for India’s rabi crops and farm-to-food chain

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File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi | ANI

Lateral entry, biometric attendance won’t fix Modi’s bureaucracy issue. Reinvest in the state

Yamini Aiyar -
Farmers in Karnataka

Indian policymakers get it wrong because farmers’ lack of market access is not the problem

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A labourer takes a break at a green peas field in Amritsar, Punjab| Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural development

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Farmers plant paddy saplings in a field in Kolkata | PTI Photo

Beyond MSPs & loan waivers, Modi govt must make agricultural market reforms its top priority

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On Camera

Opinion

Plastic pollution in water bodies

Banning glitter is not going to save the oceans

Adam Minter -
Humans release 1.5 million tons of primary microplastics into the ocean annually, a sum equivalent to one disgorged plastic bag for every person each week.
File photo | A Himalayan black bear | Wikimedia Commons

Himalayan bears sleeping less and Sarus cranes not nesting in monsoon only. That’s bad news

You can still socialise with friends during Covid, just plot to kill them online

Economy

Karnataka High Court stops Franklin Templeton debt funds closure without investor consent

Kartik Goyal -
Franklin Templeton shut six of its fixed-income and credit-risk funds run in India in April, locking in Rs 308 billion of investor monies following a liquidity crisis.

Defence

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at Sukna Military Camp in Darjeeling district on Saturday | ANI

India wants to end border row with China, but will not cede an inch of land, says Rajnath Singh

PTI -
The defence minister was speaking after performing 'Shastra Puja' at the Sukna-based headquarters of the Indian Army's 33 Corps in Darjeeling on the occasion of Dussehra.

National Interest

Illustration: Soham Sen/ThePrint

Trump or Biden? Doesn’t matter to India-US ties as they’re in a full, strategic embrace

Shekhar Gupta -
Pompeo & Esper’s visit to India for the 2+2 talks is proof that old hypocrisies are history, and supreme national interest has again driven a strategic choice.
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