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Topic: MSP

Why 175 turmeric & jowar farmers are fighting Telangana CM’s daughter in Lok Sabha polls

The farmers have filed their nominations from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha seat, hoping it will help highlight their cause nationally.   

Why higher MSPs don’t really help the Indian farmer in the long run

Production of pulses went up in response to the higher MSP, but mandi prices crashed.

Pulse of the problem — rising output plus rising imports have messed up India’s dal prices

There is a glut in the pulses market due to high imports and production resulting in CPI prices for pulses dropping by 9% for November.

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.

Thousands of farmers begin march from Thane to Mumbai for land rights & loan waiver

Other demands include increase in the MSP, assured access and control over land and water and compensation for farm labourers.

Could Modi end up in 2004-like defeat? 11 December will tell

Neither Ram nor Rafale, the biggest election issue is rural distress.

The similarity between Modi govt and old Hero Honda ads

Narendra Modi government promised historic MSP to farmers, and then forgot about it.

New procurement policy will allow states to rope in private players to ensure MSP to farmers

The cabinet headed by PM Modi has approved a new procurement policy to ensure minimum support price to farmers.

Modi’s MSP increase to have limited impact as govt buys only a third of rice, wheat output

Data shows every year only one third of total rice and wheat produced is procured by the govt, thus limiting benefits of hiked MSP.

Congress gave rural India populist slogans, PM Modi has delivered the goods: Arun Jaitley

The minister says that Narendra Modi has ensured that rural India and the less privileged get the first right of resources.

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.