Every crisis provides opportunities to move the needle on pending reforms. Perhaps for us, Covid 19 comes as an opportunity to sequence distorted policy levers in agriculture in a more pragmatic and meaningful way. It is evident that there is no single year after independence without the new farm intervention …
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Ludhiana December 30, 2020: Dogs need special care and attention during the winter season as the low temperature of the environment can have negative effects on their well-being. Dr Swaran Singh Randhawa, Professor cum Head, Department of Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, …
It is important to understand the necessity, logic and chronology of the agriculture reforms. A cacophony of lies is doing the rounds. One of the propagated false narratives about the reforms is that ‘MSP will be removed’. Not only did the Modi Government implement the recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee …
India currently consumes only one-third energy of the world average. As we move towards more robust energy consumption figures, India faces the unique challenge of seaming together disparate, competing needs: a ballooning appetite while cutting dependence on imports, greening the grid while ensuring affordability, replacing old sources of energy production …
Chandigarh-Mohali, December 29, 2020: A good food is an opportunity to keep alive taste buds and with this sole motive ‘Anardana’, an upcoming national food chain, opened its ‘Anardana Modern Kitchen & Bar’ in Chandigarh at city Emporium Mall, Industrial Area, Phase-1, in Chandigarh. The much-awaited restaurant, offering world-class cuisines …
New agri-trade laws have provided options to farmers to choose their buyer and the prices to sell their products with or without commission. This freedom of trade gives bargaining power to farmers. In order to protect their monopoly on commission and other commercial interests, the commission agents and traders mobilized …
Some acts and deeds are of such a profound quality that they can have the effect of changing the course of history. Yet, these do not always resonate in our consciousness. The martyrdom of the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji is a case in point. Sahibzada Zorawar …
Chandigarh, December 26, 2020: The Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) Punjab on Saturday commented on the statement made by Congress state president Sunil Jakhar, that the Congress Central Committee was not serious about the protest being staged by Punjab Congress MPs and it proved that the Congress was not …
SRINAGAR, 26 December 2020 – India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official said on Saturday. The District Council election, concluded early this week, was the …
NEW DELHI 26 December 2020 – Leaders of Indian farmers’ unions have agreed to meet ministers on Tuesday, possibly paving the way for a seventh-round of talks with the government which has so far failed to mollify growers who say three new agricultural laws threaten their livelihoods. Worried over farmers’ …