New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) In a key step towards farmer welfare, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved minimum support price (MSP) funding of Rs 1,718.56 crore to the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for the cotton season 2023–24.The funding aims to provide direct price support to cotton farmers across the country.During the 2023–24 cotton season, the area under cultivation was estimated at 114.47 lakh hectares, with…
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New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Amid Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi’s repeated assertions on India begin given a “raw” deal in the India-US trade pact, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has scaled up it attack, accusing the Congress leader of resorting to lies and hearsay to spread a “manufactured narrative” which was far-fetched from reality. A couple of BJP Parliamentarians, speaking to media, brushed aside Rahul’s charges on the trade deal, having a detrimental effect on India’s bu…
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Centre over the trade agreement with the United States, alleging that the deal would “destroy” India’s textile industry as well as its cotton farmers.In a video message shared on X, Gandhi claimed that millions of livelihoods are at stake. “India’s textile sector employs 50 million families. Narendra Modi’s US deal has destroyed India’s textile sector. Narendra Modi knows this, the who…
Chandigarh, Feb 8 (IANS) The Punjab Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on Sunday, condemned the so-called India-US trade deal, calling it a “dangerous, anti-farmer and anti-national agreement that will devastate Indian agriculture and push millions of farmers towards economic ruin”. Punjab AAP Spokesperson Kuldeep Dhaliwal said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sunil Jakhar “is celebrating the deal without understanding, or deliberately hiding, its catastrophic consequences for India’s poor and margi…