Extension of the 21-day lockdown and an imminent food crisis
The extension of the 21-day lockdown in India must be done judiciously as there is a need to complete Rabi harvesting and prevent a major food crisis.
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Nirmala Sitharaman’s rhetoric-filled budget ignores farmers’ agony and agricultural crisis
Though she spoke in length about rural development, Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2019-20 didn’t provide roadmap for farm crisis and farmers’ welfare.
The vexing alarm of water crisis is ringing in India
India is running out of water. It’s not surprising that the Modi regime and its corporate funders are exploiting the situation to profiteer from mass agony.
Can Modi’s war propaganda hide the real problems for long?
On all media platforms the Modi regime and its sycophants are gloating over successful “Surgical Strike 2.0”. Can they hide the unemployment issue for long?
Kisan Mukti March Challenging Modi’s Tyranny
The Kisan Mukti March rocking Delhi is throwing a challenge to the unpopular and tyrant Modi regime.
Why Modi Government’s 50% MSP Hike on 14 Kharif Crops Isn’t a Pro-Farmer Move?
The Modi regime has increased the minimum support price (MSP) of 14 notified Kharif crops to fulfil the BJP’s poll promise of increasing farmers’ income in comparison to the input cost of farming by 50 per cent. This promise was reiterated during the Union Budget 2018-19 and the government announced the increase in MSP on … Read more
Know why the Union Budget 2018-19 is an Anti-Farmer Budget
Ever since Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget 2018-19, there has been a hullabaloo over the budget’s theme, which the corporate world and the mainstream media controlled by it labelled as a pro-farmer budget, much before the BJP laid the same claim on the last full budget of the Modi regime. This eccentric … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Farm Loan Waiver Another Gimmick by BJP
The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath has waived off the farm loans in the state and the news has become a headline that all mainstream corporate media houses kept recycling to project the man, their corporate owners funded, as a messiah for the poor and the would-be Narendra Modi, aka Vikas Purush (development … Read more
Union Budget 2017-18 is Hollow and Deceitful
PR Economy Desk (02/02/2017): The Union Budget 2017-18 presented by Arun Jaitley on 1st February 2017 was special due to three reasons: It became the first budget since the foundation of the Indian republic when the railway and general budgets were clubbed together into one The Union Budget 2017-18 is a slightly controlled budget because the … Read more
Madhya Pradesh farmers will lose crops due to Modi’s rally
(This article was first published in February 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) Tragedy has entrenched the Modi government, quagmired in utmost crisis and attempting to do an image makeover before … Read more