scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicFarmer Debt

Topic: Farmer Debt

NSS survey on farmers is a mid-term report card of Modi’s promise, with ‘fail’ written over it

Yogendra Yadav -
The NSS survey conceals more than it reveals. It gives the impression that there is at least some progress. But that is misleading.

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.

Punjab farmers protest over flaws in loan waiver scheme before highly publicised rollout

Chitleen K Sethi -
CM Amarinder Singh will launch the scheme Sunday; farmers allege gross favouritism in selecting beneficiaries besides clerical errors in the lists.

If we can afford to recapitalise banks and a bullet train, why not MSP for farmers?

Yogendra Yadav -
This could be the first step in the right direction but it cannot solve all the farmers’ grievances,

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

Follow us

Copyright © 2025 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.