Agrarian Crisis

NCRB 2016 data: Delayed NCRB report, added categories don't take away from grim reality of farmer suicides

The death of so many farmers in the country, now close to 3.5 lakh, has not led to radical policy changes to revitalise the agriculture sector. The farmer is once again caught in the grip of uncertain rains and debt, with little hope on the horizon. And the suicides continue, even if the NCRB introduces new categories and delays its own reports.

Now that BJP's kept Article 370, Ayodhya promise, high time govt focused on crashing economy, job generation, low investor confidence

The April-June GDP figure came at lowest in 7 years, gave a shocker to the economy.

Govt has no business to be in business; divest mining firms NMDC, HZL: Anil Agarwal to PM Modi

Agarwal, who was one of the three industrialists invited for a pre-Budget meeting that Narendra Modi had with over 40 economists and sectoral experts on 22 June, also said privatisation without job loss can help boost the economy

Congress, NCP leaders stage protests in Maharashtra legislature premises over agrarian crisis, seek complete loan waiver

Opposition MLAs in Maharashtra staged a protest alleging agrarian crisis in the state and made a strong pitch for complete farm loan waiver.

Farmers in Gujarat's Saurashtra seethe over being made pawns of electoral politics over water

Located at the border region of Rajkot district in Gujarat, Madhapur village has been battling a brutal summer, all on its own.

Maharshi, Srimanthudu, Bharat Ane Nenu: How Mahesh Babu’s films have attempted to empower rural India

The actor’s latest film, Maharshi, took a closer look at the agrarian crisis and farmer suicides in rural areas.

The undoing of India's agricultural growth | Firstpost Conversations Episode 4 Promo

In the run up to Lok Sabha elections 2019, political parties waived loans and distributed sops to farmers. But is that the solution to the agrarian crisis?

Narendra Modi should canter home for another term as PM, going by surveys; Opposition, critics have missed the ball game

Voters are willing to overlook the failures of Modi and continue trusting him because the prime minister has convinced them that his intentions are noble.

BJP takes contrasting path to growth, poverty alleviation, pits top-down aspirations against Congress' bottom-up handouts

If you look beyond the slogans and an impressive rain of data by Narendra Modi's colleagues at the launch of the BJP manifesto, the real deal is that there is a more-of-the-same flavour in Modi's to-do list

Stray cattle menace: MP farmers lose sleep over threat to crops from bovines; govt looks for answers in gaushalas

The slaughter of cattle, whether male calves or cows past their utility, is banned in Madhya Pradesh. But traders would take them to West Bengal where their slaughter is allowed, or smuggle them to Bangladesh