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Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
Sanjeeb Mukherjee is a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering various news beats, mainly in the agriculture, commodities, rural, and food policy space. He has worked at several places, including United News of India (UNI), Dow Jones Newswires, and Financial Express. Currently, he is working as the Agriculture Editor at Business Standard. His work has taken him to some of the most remote areas of the country, allowing him to gain invaluable insights into the dynamics of rural agriculture markets. He has honed his skills in analysing and providing commentary on India's farm sector policies, focusing on their impact on different stakeholders and their implications for climate change.
AEPS is a biometric way of making payments and would use only the fingerprint linked to Aadhaar
As of March 7, a little over 55 mn cards had been issued, around 40%
Consignments with false certificates could make their way to Indian shores, posing health risks
Such kind of practice is most common in cinema halls, multiplexes, airports and stadiums
Could launch premium cotton seed, mustard and sunflower oils; expects 30 per cent rise in turnover
Beneficiaries without an Aadhaar id will have to enrol themselves by June this year
Data from the National Consumer Helpline show 2,494 complaints received in 3-year period
All bank accounts to be seeded with Aadhaar by Mar 31; Aadhaar to be made mandatory for PDS as well
With agriculture in the country facing numerous challenges because of uncertain weather
Economists bat for cut in income tax rates and people-friendly Budget
Agricultural budget may rise by at least Rs 10,000 crore from 2015-16 BE of almost Rs 35,000 crore
They say the law is just making it tough for a server as minimum pay wage is not enough to survive
Studies show per-hectare productivity of rice in the country might go down 4-10% in irrigated areas
Full legal right not to do so, govt states; not really, says hotels body
According to the data of NCRB, of the 12,602 persons, 8,007 were farmers or cultivators
Host of sops for middle class, poor and farmers on cards
Centre will initially deal with only cases related to e-commerce companies
The decision has been taken to address the difficulties of farmers in repaying because of demonetisation
IDS-2 and raids to uncover black money stash are keeping receipts flowing
Saumitra Chaudhuri had also been in the race for RBI governor's post but Raghuram Rajan was eventually chosen