Financially weak sugar cooperatives may take loans from Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank on state guarantee. 8% Interest rate lower than that of National Cooperative Development Corporation.
Any major diversion of corn usage towards ethanol production would severely impact India's poultry sector. Modi govt's target of E20 by 2025 needs 2G biofuels.
Some mills from Maharashtra & Karnataka have already contracted to ship about 1.2 mn tonnes of raw sugar from next crop. Bumper supplies from India may potentially put a lid on prices.
India’s efforts to subsidise exports is drawing the ire of rival growers in Brazil & Australia, who say the policy is depressing world prices and hurting their farmers.
Tuesday’s Constitution Club election is not the finale of the ‘Thakur-versus-the rest’ battle in the BJP. Wait for the caste census result to come ahead of the next Lok Sabha election.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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