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Thursday, July 31, 2025
TopicFarm bills

Topic: farm bills

Modi govt on right path on agriculture and labour reforms but at wrong speed

Modi govt unwisely ignoring the central difficulty of reform — while you can’t wait for all states to agree before you make changes, you can’t impose them with zero agreement, either.

What economists like Ashok Gulati still don’t understand about agriculture in India

Indian farmers have read the writing on the wall. India’s economists have not.

Rahul Gandhi plans rallies in Punjab as Congress looks to capitalise on farmer agitation

Rahul Gandhi is planning to hold rallies in different parts of Punjab later this week as part of protests against the contentious new farm laws.

Times Now debates Amnesty ‘witch hunt’, India Today questions UP Police over Hathras gangrape

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

Rich farmers dominate farm protests in India. It’s happening since Charan Singh days

The agriculture sector, like large and medium industries of the Indian economy, also needs a well-organised industry representation.

The ‘space’ NDA allies have & PM CARES but does FM ‘dare’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Rafale to farm bills, Opposition has fought against every decision we’ve taken, Modi says

At inauguration of Namami Gange projects, PM Modi says the nation can see how some people are opposing reforms just for the sake of it.

Zee News questions Mamata on Nusrat Jahan controversy, NDTV tracks farmers’ protests

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

BJP treated allies like spare tyres, has no minority support now, says SAD chief Sukhbir Badal

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal, whose party broke away from NDA after 24 years, says BJP never consulted allies on significant decisions & just expected them to fall in line.

Kerala MP says farm bill violates constitutional rights, challenges its validity in SC

Congress MP TN Prathapan said The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 is not a 'progressive legislation'.

On Camera

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.