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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicAgrarian crisis

Topic: agrarian crisis

80% rural India’s calorie intake low, Govt claims of falling poverty false, says economist Utsa Patnaik

At Second P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Patnaik spoke about reliable sources of nutritional data being ‘undermined’, British exploitation & ‘unrelenting attack’ on developing nations.

SubscriberWrites: Agrarian distress and militancy in Punjab

Downward socio-economic trajectory raises vulnerability to radicalisation.

Need for a rural workers union, said Prakash Karat at first P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture

P Sundarayya, a pioneer of the peasant movement in India, had zeroed in on three main classes in the Indian countryside: landlords, agricultural workers, and a differentiated peasantry.

MSP, subsidies are at root of Punjab’s farm crises but its farmers are fighting to keep them

Agriculture experts & some farmers say combination of assured procurement, free power & input subsidies has led to vicious paddy-wheat cycle that needs to be broken.

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

For the vast majority of Indian farmers, the declaration of MSPs without procurement has no effect on prices.

Finally, an alternative to farm loan waivers that assures direct income for all farmers

Loan waivers will only make rich farmers richer. Quasi-universal basic rural income guarantees basic income for the poorest of farmers.

Draconian Essential Commodities Act needs to go if India wants to raise farm incomes

The fear of the Essential Commodities Act may explain the lack of formal warehouses and silos in India.

Media revisits 1984, and Priyanka Gandhi in a new role?

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Agrarian crisis is an election issue, but agriculture minister is missing from BJP campaign

Radha Mohan Singh has been kept out of the list of BJP star campaigners over apprehensions that the agriculture minister could face protests from farmers.

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The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.