Farmers registered under PM insurance scheme say they’re not entitled to state govt relief while the latter says it has reopened its portal for beneficiaries.
For 3 months starting September, officials involved in implementing policies impacting agriculture & farmers will spend 1-to-3 days each month with farmers to understand difficulties faced by them.
With 47,288 new cases, Maharashtra continues to be ravaged by Covid. For farmers in water-starved Yavatmal, the possibility of another lockdown only makes matters worse.
While govt stated the ordinances will help move towards a more flexible system, the farmers argued that in the garb of the ordinances, govt is trying to do away with the MSP regime.
In episode 471 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta discusses Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement amending the Essential Commodities Act and the One Nation One Market policy.
Farmers helping farmers — this is the guiding principle of a club that seeks to free farmers from the cycle of debt and penury that has dogged Vidarbha for years.
After lapses exposed by terror attacks at Pahalgam and Delhi's Red Fort, Centre has hiked Intelligence Bureau's expenditure for investments in long-term assets from Rs 257 cr to Rs 2,549 cr.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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