On 21st September, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Supreme Court that it did not find anything criminal in the Raadia Tapes. These tapes refer to the record of telephone conversations, tapped by various state agencies. They are conversations between Niira Raadia, who represents several major corporate houses, with her pay masters as well as with ministers and politicians of different parties.
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Database on Farmers : Paving the way for intensifying stranglehold of capitalist monopolies over agriculture
On 1st June 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture published a consultation paper called The India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture (IDEA), laying out a proposed framework for ‘AgriStack’. Agristack is planned to be a compilation of digital databases focussing on India’s farmers and the agricultural sector.
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