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Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers
While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard
Free-wheeling remarks on freebies
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Endless Wait of 60 million Senior Citizens for Pensions
The most important support needed by elderly persons is...
‘Grossly inadequate’: NREGA allocation 0.29% of GDP, World Bank recommended 1.6%
A civil society tracker, seeking to periodically analyse the...
Dhinkia: Betel plantation destruction hits local economy
With land being transferred, allegedly without consent of villagers for a "development project, and alleged police pressure, the future appears bleak
Modi’s RBI and its myopic monetary measures
After demonetization, GST and Covid, India is still limping to a new economic normal
SBI levels bank fraud of ₹ 22,842 crore against ABG shipyard
Opposition Congress condemns the government for failing to act on this scam flagged as early as 2018
Air India sale: The making of One Lakh Crore scam?
Need for an in-depth and impartial investigation into favourable concessions given to new owners
CEL sale, a threat to national security: Employees
The disinvestment is on hold but employee unions fear the sale of the profit-making PSU to an inexperienced bidder
UP: Weavers persist battle for fixed rate electricity subsidy
Powerloom workers submitted a memorandum to authorities, tired of over-the-top bills from the electricity department
Kuch ka saath aur Cronies ka Vikas
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