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Agricultural incentives, intended to safeguard farmers’ incomes while achieving self-sufficiency in food security, are resulting in unintended negative consequences such as distortion of the cropping pattern and inefficient use of natural resources due to ineffective planning and implementation. Incentives provided for paddy production across the country are a typical example of ineptly planned schemes that have led to a flawed production system and unsustainable use of scarce groundwater, apart from adding to the government’s fiscal burden.

This annexation, unlike Crimea in 2014, was essentially targeted for the domestic audience to showcase the achievements and nefarious designs of the US as reports of Russians dodging and fleeing the country against the fear of mobilisation since they did not consider it their war.

Anil Trigunayat Neighbours are a gift of geography but sometimes become pains of history . India has also been blessed with a troubled neighborhood and has often been at cross roads especially with Pakistan and China . Both appear to…

Russia’s war against Ukraine has reached an inflection point—politically, tactically and strategically. President Putin is likely to announce the annexation of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as well as the occupied parts of the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhiain in a speech to a joint session of Russia’s parliament this week. Though these referendums have been described as a sham by Ukraine and its western allies, Moscow is claiming that there is near-universal support among the four million people asked to vote in the war-torn regions for joining Russia.