India Lockdown sees Shweta Basu Prasad in the role of a sex worker from Mumbai’s red light area Kamathipura. Shweta Basu Prasad shares how she took inspiration from portrayals of sex workers in Bollywood by Kareena Kapoor and Smita Patil for her role in India Lockdown. Like all of them, this is a survival story.” Even though India Lockdown tells …
Amid the rapid spread of COVID-19, Haryana has been at the forefront of fighting this challenge. Under his leadership, the state government has documented and digitized the records of all farmer families through the revolutionary Parivar Pehchan Patra, which ensures that the payment for crop procurement directly reaches Haryana’s farmers. Doubling farmers’ income is the stated goal of our Prime …
How is the Farmers’ Produce Trade & Commerce Bill, 2020, passed in the Lok Sabha, going to affect the functioning of mandis? How did the COVID-19 lockdown affect the agriculture sector in Rajasthan and what issues did the farmers face in the harvesting of crops and selling their agricultural produce in mandis? The State government has provided 8.1 lakh maize …
Before the paddy harvesting season sets in, Haryana government is actively planning to gradually switch from manual to machine-driven procurement of food grains and overcome the looming risk of labour shortage induced by the coronavirus disease. HT Image In what is being seen a first firm step towards mechanisation of procurement process, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board has mooted a …