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The SBI Research Dept recently issued a “Special Report on Agriculture” that claims that farmers’ income doubled in FY22 as compared to FY18 for certain crops in some states… while in all other cases it rose in the range of 1.3-1.7 times. An examination of some of the features of this report.
After entering the government as a junior coalition partner in early 2020, Podemos’s radicalism has been stifled by the strictures of government and the compromises of coalition politics. If the left is to remain relevant, it must learn how to revive its insurgent energy without forfeiting its influence.
Almost the whole of India was caught in a serious power crisis from early May 2022. The Indian government even started pushing cash-strapped State government utilities for importing expensive coal. What are the factors that led to this country-wide mess?
Through her women’s organisation Tehrik-e-Niswan, she has spent decades holding performances about social issues.
Anecdotal evidence and data from the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey indicate that economic distress is driving women to take on any sort of work at very low salaries.
Why have Tory MPs lost their heads and defenestrated one of their very few leaders capable of galvanizing popular support? It appears to be a galloping case of the post-imperial entropy diagnosed by Tom Nairn many decades ago, through which ‘the English conservative Establishment has begun to destroy itself.’
In the early 20th century, the trend of protest against caste-based discrimination found its profound expression in the works and activism of Swami Achutanand.
A union government decision to cut funding to states that do not ensure children and mothers getting free food have Aadhaar IDs could cause millions of poor families to lose key sources of nutrition. The move violates a Supreme Court order that no subsidy or service may be denied for want of an Aadhaar number.
The lifting of economic sanctions by ECOWAS against Mali is an indication that resistance of the country’s authorities and people has proven to be effective. Also: The Sudanese revolution continues, despite the fierce repression.
Welcome to the European Union’s “sanctions from hell.” Germany is heading for a major economic crisis. When Germany sneezes, of course, Europe catches cold — not only the Eurozone but even post-Brexit Britain.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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