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Friday, April 26, 2024
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Topic: Farmers

Modi voters know they bought an empty package. They won’t keep buying it

An unambiguous message to the BJP from the state elections: It’s time for you to go.

BJP’s anti-farmer policies led to Hindi heartland loss, says farmers body

Shekhar Dixit, president of Rashtriya Kisan Manch, said the firing incident in MP's Mandsaur where five protesting farmers were killed was a "turning point".

In a study that can help farmers, Indian scientist helps crops grow safely in arsenic soil

An Indian scientist in UK has conducted a pilot study growing Barley in arsenic contaminated soil  and is now looking at doing it in rice plants.

Why 2019 could be first Lok Sabha election to be fought on farmers’ issues

Not BJP or Congress, farmers are setting their own agenda for 2019 elections.

Increasing farmer protests show stopgap solutions in election manifestos don’t work

India’s farmers, especially in small and marginal categories, need to be up-skilled and relocated to higher paying sectors.

How India’s most farmer-friendly state failed to allow direct farmer-to-consumer sales

Maharashtra government wanted to exempt all agricultural products from mandatory sales at regulated markets, but the attempt failed. 

Farmers’ anger against Narendra Modi is no sign of their voting preference

Grand mobilisation of farmers reflects a growing rural discontent, but that does not mean they will vote as a bloc.

Why angry farmers protesting in Delhi could spell trouble for BJP

Coming in the midst of the ongoing assembly polls, and just months before Lok Sabha elections, farmers' protest is an imagery Modi govt can ill-afford.

Madhya Pradesh is Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s election – to win or lose

Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the pivotal leader in this election — he is BJP's biggest asset in Madhya Pradesh but is also weighing the party down.

Agrarian crisis is an election issue, but agriculture minister is missing from BJP campaign

Radha Mohan Singh has been kept out of the list of BJP star campaigners over apprehensions that the agriculture minister could face protests from farmers.

On Camera

Every time the Congress thinks it has a ‘revolutionary’ idea, it shoots its own foot

From Sam Pitroda talking about inheritance tax to Goan candidate saying the Indian Constitution was 'forced' on Goa, Congress has been having its own foot-in-the-mouth moments.

Notices, fines, court case & now a limited ban — RBI-Kotak relationship has been fraught for years

RBI Wednesday banned Kotak Mahindra Bank from taking on new customers through digital channels & from issuing new credit cards. Violations had to do with strength of bank’s IT infra.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.