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साल 2016-17 के आर्थिक सर्वेक्षण ने देश में रोजगारहीन विकास क�…

"Subsidies have to be withdrawn"

A study reveals how subsidies are encouraging farmers to waste water and use land and fertilisers unsustainably.

Lok Sabha passes Aadhaar Bill as a single window to distribute subsidy

Opposition terms move a ‘conspiracy to undermine the Rajya Sabha’

Subsidising renewables

No food talk

Rich and poor leaders give the World Food Summit a miss. They don't care for the hungry.

Cottoning on disparity

WTO special subcommittee formed to scrutinise subsidies

Torn to shreds

US stand on cotton subsidies rejected by WTO

WTO talks heading nowhere? Experts slam text on fisheries subsidies

Expert groups claim that the new draft of the fisheries subsidies favours developed countries and risks the interests of small fishers

What’s derailing growth of solar energy in some US states?

Despite facing widespread opposition from people, Indiana legislators have been trying to slow the growth of solar for years

42% of India’s districts use 85% of its chemical fertilisers

A parliamentary standing committee blamed Agriculture Ministry’s skewed policy for the inequality in fertiliser usage

Agriculture, fisheries take spotlight at WTO meet in Abu Dhabi

India backs permanent solution for public stockholding of food grains even as developing nations attack it

Budget attempts to provide relief to drought-hit farmers

But boost in agriculture budget not enough, say experts

Sop story

Agricultural deal eludes WTO

Repercussions for new international trade deal

US proposes to subsidise coal and nuclear power plants, calls them ‘reliable’

The proposed rulemaking is meant to subsidise and salvage coal power plants at the cost of renewable energy sector

Improved hearths

Book>> Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes: New Stoves For India And The Developing World • Douglas F Barnes, Priti Kumar, Keith Openshaw &…

On the defensive at Cancun?

Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month's World Trade Organization ministerial …

Biogas rediscovered

Innovative Vidarbha farmers make biogas plants viable.

Black money

Economic concerns make the US promote unclean fuel

UP’s mini-grid policy tries to boost rural electrification

Private players can now set up solar plants to power rural households and recover tariff from the users in Uttar Pradesh

UK environmentalists tilt at windmills

The setting up of windmills in the British countryside has sparked off a heated debate because some conservationists contend they are …

Outsourcing drug trials

The international clinical trial business could come to India in a big way. The most advanced drugs might be available to Indians as soon as the …

Shortchanged

What ails the economies of the eight northeastern states? The warped fiscal policies of the Union government

The official bully

Newspaper>>Fuel Subsidies • Sudan

Germany goes green

Environment friendly farm policies will be the new paradigm