At ThePrint’s Off The Cuff, three agricultural experts, Siraj Hussain, Ashok Gulati & Mekhala Krishnamurthy, weigh in on the contentious farm laws and the farmers’ protests.
Farmers' unions Wednesday rejected the govt proposal of a 'written assurance' that the existing Minimum Support Price regime for procurement will continue.
JD(U) says govt should include MSP in laws, while AIADMK wants farmers’ concerns to be addressed and JJP in Haryana has urged the govt to add a line on MSP in the laws.
India is learnt to have informed Canada that External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar won't attend the 7 December meeting due to scheduling issues. India had said Trudeau’s comments were 'ill informed'.
Social worker Baba Sewa Singh & ex-national boxing coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu are latest in list of personalities from Punjab who announced their intention to return their awards.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
What the govt is offering in steps, why could it not do the same before passing the laws? The biggest problem with this BJP govt. is its presidential style of functioning where the head of the govt does not believe in consultation, doesn’t give presss conferences, manipulates the spineless press, uses brute majority to force its own views. Compare this with the governance of Nehru who had complete majority, but he promoted opposition from his own party members too. BJP can never think of getting such majority without using undemocratic tactics. When this realization takes root in even 30% of Indians, it’ll be the end of BJP.
What the govt is offering in steps, why could it not do the same before passing the laws? The biggest problem with this BJP govt. is its presidential style of functioning where the head of the govt does not believe in consultation, doesn’t give presss conferences, manipulates the spineless press, uses brute majority to force its own views. Compare this with the governance of Nehru who had complete majority, but he promoted opposition from his own party members too. BJP can never think of getting such majority without using undemocratic tactics. When this realization takes root in even 30% of Indians, it’ll be the end of BJP.