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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Topic: Agriculture

Govt says GDP will grow at 7.2% in 2018-19, up from 6.7% last fiscal

PTI -
Data released by the Central Statistics Office said the improved growth will be thanks to agriculture and manufacturing sectors.

Not Hindu-Muslim, this issue can become the polarising factor in 2019 elections

Ashish Ranjan -
In electoral politics, heated discussion over a specific issue is always desirable at the local level to fire up the voters.

Falling crop prices blow holes in Modi’s promise of higher incomes to farmers

Pratik Parija -
Prices of crops such as cereals, oilseeds & pulses are hovering below govt-set levels in grain markets across the country.

Banks are saddled with bad loans of farmers as well, not just corporates

Remya Nair -
Although their share in the total NPA pool has reduced, bank NPAs from agriculture have shot up by at least 23% in a year.

Indian farmers need a new deal and not just loan waivers

Yogendra Yadav -
Farmers’ issues have occupied centre stage after decades and compulsions of 2019 can create the political will to do something.

MS Swaminathan and his co-authors are not helping Indian farmers at a moment of crisis

Devang Mehta -
Swaminathan and P.C. Kesavan's latest piece trashing the use of GMOs is littered with scientific untruths and misrepresents the technology.

In a study that can help farmers, Indian scientist helps crops grow safely in arsenic soil

PTI -
An Indian scientist in UK has conducted a pilot study growing Barley in arsenic contaminated soil  and is now looking at doing it in rice plants.

Why 2019 could be first Lok Sabha election to be fought on farmers’ issues

Yogendra Yadav -
Not BJP or Congress, farmers are setting their own agenda for 2019 elections.

The militaristic claims of ISRO’s latest satellite have been greatly exaggerated

Sandhya Ramesh -
Since HysIS's launch, a spawning folklore has attributed spectacular powers to the satellite. ThePrint speaks to domain experts to set the record straight.

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.
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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

AG Sulzberger -
Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

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

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

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
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.

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