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A tanker bearing registration MP-09-HH-3363 was being filled with illegal bio-diesel by the accused.

They have been arrested under relevant sections of the IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act of 1998. The police said that further arrests would be made on the basis of relevant documents received from the department concerned.

Delhi Police have failed to file a chargesheet even after nearly nine months of their investigation into the Navneet Kalra case of alleged black marketing of oxygen concentrators during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Delhi Police have failed to file a chargesheet even after nearly nine months of their investigation into the Navneet Kalra case of alleged black marketing of oxygen concentrators during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.The irony is, the ...

Found this (PDF). It has no clear date of publication or authorship but is well written. Have converted to Word and OCRd. HTML below.   VISIONARIES OF A NEW “BHARAT” - Sharad Joshi VISIONARIES OF A NEW “BHARAT” “SHETKARI SANGHATANA” The Farmers’ Organization in Maharashtra The Shetkari Sanghatana (SS) in Maharashtra functioning since 1978 is…

Despite several objections, the three farm laws, including the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020, were enacted with full force by the union government. However, after more than a year of the farmers’ agitation, the government decided to withdraw these laws. The amended ECA had some contradictory provisions and, in sum, limited the scope for regulation by

Noting here: Get out of farmers’ way: In the end government interventions end up sustaining, not reducing, rural poverty While most other sectors were liberalised in 1991, agriculture was not. Indian farmers arguably remain among the most unfree in the world. Some claim India won’t be able to feed itself without the government playing a hands-on…

We do need reforms to make farming remunerative again but it will take a truly participatory effort

The Chemicals and Fertilisers Ministry had stated in the June notification that the decision has been taken in view of the extraordinary circumstances arising due to the pandemic which has resulted in volatility in Maximum Retail Prices (MRP) of oxygen concentrators.

The Centre on Wednesday issued a gazette notification to repeal the three farm laws and the Act will now be called Farm Laws Repeal Act, 2021.