There is an urgent need to encourage innovation and educate farmers rather than taking punitive action against already stressed farmers.
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After the drama, we are now looking back not-so-fondly at demonetisation. We still have no answer to why there is a Rs 2,000 note and no Rs 1,000 note.
From mixing the stubble into soil, to making manure and use in the packaging industry, there are a lot of ways in which the problem of paddy residue can be solved.
The central government’s policy of not allowing Punjab to diversify is resulting in stubble burning which is causing damage to the health of people in faraway Delhi.
The fact that ministers are honorary directors and not trustees of the India Foundation is probably deliberate — not to evade the law, but to comply with it.
The code bars ministers from even being on advisory boards, but four ministers continue to advise the India Foundation, and the Cabinet Secy is silent.
It suggests to the Indian mind that there are individuals who are pursuing wealth for the sake of wealth; and in the process, throwing in names of two sons of politicians.
It is curious to note that a section of the Hindu vote has seamlessly transferred between the BJP in the 2019 & 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the Left in the 2020 & 2025 local body polls.
Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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