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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicAgrarian crisis

Topic: agrarian crisis

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

Unnati Sharma -
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

Samyak Pandey -
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

Mekhala Krishnamurthy -
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

Arvind Subramanian -
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

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

‘Welfare’ not ‘vikas’ will be Modi’s slogan for 2019, says media

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

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

Pragya Kaushika -
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.

Will linking MSP with cost really have any benefits? No, say farmers & experts

Chitleen K Sethi -
Farmers' bodies and experts say the key to any benefit to farmers lies in how the production cost or the cost of cultivation is calculated.

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Opinion

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

+TFP Yogendra Yadav -
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Rajkummar Rao must keep his chin up. Questions will be asked and he’s no victim

DD News anchor calls Congress wealth survey ‘communist ideology’. It’s following BJP’s lead

Economy

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

Bharath Rajeswaran -
The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Defence

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Smruti Deshpande -
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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