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The Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, introduces us to four pillars for whom the 2024–25 interim budget is designed: the poor, women, youth and farmers. However, the budgetary allocations do not reflect this commitment. Comments on the Interim Budget by several authors.
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal to commercialise herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard will destroy not just Indian mustard agriculture but citizens’ health.
The vast majority—more than 67 percent of crop calories grown in the U.S.—are used to feed animals raised for human consumption. Rather than feeding people, these crops feed the billions of chickens, cows, pigs, and other animals who live and die on factory farms. And that’s a problem.
‘As Snowfall and Rain Elude Himalayas in the Peak of Winter, Worries Mount’: There has been a decline in the frequency of the western disturbance tropical storm, which brings rain and snow to northern India, say scientists. Also: ‘Kashmiris Look to Heaven, with Prayers and Hope, as Snow Stays Away Through Coldest Phase of Winter’.
Remembering Madhu Dandavate, one of the finest socialists of India, whose birth centenary falls this month. He was born on January 21, 1924.
Education has led to high mobility, especially in the poorer Marathwada region, but opportunities remain few alongside dwindling incomes, shows a data analysis.
The attempt by neoliberal governance has been to steadily depoliticise farmers’ suicides and strip them of any deeper messaging.
Recent research shows that the environmental costs of the Green Revolution are as severe as its economic impacts. In Punjab, India’s top Green Revolution state, heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides has contaminated water, soil and food and endangered human health.
People and cattle suffer as political expediency trumps relief efforts in the drought-stricken State.
A complex caste history makes many Marathas reluctant to embrace the ‘socially inferior’ Kunbi identity – even if that can give them access to quotas.
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