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The Big Gun Falls Silent: Madhavsinh Solanki Carried the Secrets of Bofors to his Grave FOLLOW US ON: The last rites of four-time Gujarat chief minister Madhavsinh Solanki, who died on Saturday at the age of 94, were carried out on Sunday. Solanki was external affairs minister in PV Narasimha Rao's cabinet, but he quit his post in March 1992 after being accused of trying to sabotage the investigation in the Bofors case and was never part of any other government again. A close associate of Indira Gandhi, Solanki never opened his mouth on Bofors till his death even as he had to pay a heavy poli...

Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Akanksha Kumar. The conversation starts off with some bizarre news stories and quickly moves to Basant’s report on the association of right-wing groups with most cases registered under the new anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh. The discussion then shifts to Akanksha’s report on how a local right-wing body disrupted a consensual interfaith marriage in Lucknow. The triad discusses the role of local fringe groups before and after the new law came to be. The three also talk about the farmers' protest and Basant’s report on the 12 farmer gro...

Reporters Without Orders Ep 146: Farmer protests A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have. Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Anna Priyadarshini. The conversation hits off with the bizarre news stories, from a fisherman finding the world’s biggest blob of whale vomit worth 2.4 million pounds to a wife of a dead Patiala man receiving a ‘sample-collected’ SMS on her husband’s phone. The discussion begins with Anna and Ayush’s report on ex-soldiers at the farmer protests denouncing the Naxal jibes at them by Union Minister Piyush Goya...

Chemical fertilizer results in low quality vegetables and crops - Sant Kumar Chemical fertilizer results in low quality vegetables and crops - Sant Kumar Friday 11/12/2020 The Founder of Organic Farming in Fiji Sant Kumar has highlighted that the excessive use of chemical fertilizer in the country has resulted in the low quality of vegetables and crops produced by farmers. Speaking at the Organic Pathways for Sustainable Fiji Workshop at SPC Training Centre at Narere, Kumar says most of the farmers are using chemical fertilizer without knowing the effects of the chemicals. He says when h...