Farmers protest annually for fair prices and wages. Minimum Support Price and its impact on various crops are key issues. Small farmers struggle with low incomes and market access. Loan waivers offer limited relief. Policy debates focus on balancing farmer needs with market realities. The government faces challenges in supporting farmers while managing the budget.
West Asia is never quiet. As if the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are not enough, let alone the simmering ones in Libya, Yemen, and Sudan, the past week’s conflagration in Syria has yet again proved that the causes of conflict must also be definitively addressed, especially when a highly complex situation is allowed to take deeper, divisive roots with external powers having their own axe to grind every step of the way.
In the past dozen or so years, India has effectively transformed its "Link West" policy into an "Act West" policy. The transactional partnerships of previous decades have been replaced by a comprehensive, strategic relationship, expanding, renewing, and reigniting the intensity of exchanges at the highest levels.
On December 3, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol surprised the nation by declaring martial law. The announcement sent shock waves across the globe as airborne troops entered the premises of the National Assembly. Although South Korea has a history of martial law-13 emergency ones and four security martial laws this was the first time it had been declared after the 1981 revision of the National Assembly Act. Nonetheless, a proactive opposition voted in the assembly against the martial law, forcing the President to lift it.
In a landmark decision, the Union Cabinet, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) scheme.
The inadequate incomes of the poor lead to a shortage of demand even for the organised sector. The root is rising inequality.