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Sunday, September 1, 2024
TopicFarmer distress

Topic: Farmer distress

UP’s Rampur villages show signs of Covid impact: Milk sales down, shops selling on credit

The lockdown has been particularly harsh on the farming and local traders community who say they have been reduced to figuring out their daily survival.

Maggi, fridge, clothes, mobile data, booze — nothing is selling in slowdown-hit rural UP

Kids are denied lunch and weddings are austere as rural consumption takes a beating due to economic slowdown. ThePrint travels through UP to meet people caught in the crisis.

Our sons’ deaths a waste, nothing has changed: Families of Mandsaur protest victims

This poll season, farmers in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, say it isn't a loan waiver or cash transfer they need, just the right price for their produce.

Arun Jaitley hints at a Rs 500 raise in monthly cash support to farmers

The Union Minister also said that state governments too have a responsibility to address farm distress by bringing their own income support schemes.

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Dear readers, ThePrint has heard you — We now offer you a login-based, ad-lite experience

To see if the new system works, I logged in as a subscriber. I clicked on articles, randomly, and found that most of those annoying advertisements, pop-ups had disappeared.

Discarded privatisation plans? Number of operating public sector companies rises by 20 since 2014

While CPSE closures have tripled, new companies are coming up too. With profits & dividends being balanced by low disinvestment proceeds, question is whether govt’s strategic shift is working.

Security beefed up in Jammu region ahead of polls but attacks since 2021 point to pattern

Since 2021, security forces have lost over 52 personnel to firefights with terrorists in Jammu region. Analysis shows terrorists have managed to operate and move with ease.

PM Modi wants US to protect Hindus in Bangladesh. Hasina’s debacle must not be India’s

Bangladesh has dumped Sheikh Hasina. Are we dumping Bangladesh in turn? We can’t choose our neighbours. But you know what, we can choose to be the kind of neighbour we want to be.