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Zia Haq

Zia Haq reports on public policy, economy and agriculture. Particularly interested in development economics and growth theories.

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‘Destitutes’ to benefit from tweaked food security bill

The government will redraft the food security bill on the recommendations of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to widen its reach, particularly among special populations. Some original provisions that had been pared down are back on the menu. Zia Haq reports. Widening the scope

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Updated on Mar 21, 2013 04:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Cash crunch hits fertiliser import

India is tiding over a fertiliser shortage, triggered partly by a cash crunch at the government’s end, a person familiar with the development told HT, requesting anonymity.

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Updated on Oct 26, 2011 01:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

UPA govt begins spadework for Muslim quota

The UPA government is firming up plans to give reservation in jobs and education to underprivileged Muslims at the national level, a move likely to shore up the ruling Congress' support base among the 150-million community ahead of the 2014 polls.

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Updated on Oct 24, 2011 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

'Farmers forced to sell produce cheap'

Indian households are paying the highest prices for food in a decade, but farmers producing them sell for just a fraction of the final price, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said on Friday. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Oct 22, 2011 01:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Food security plan is bad economics: Pawar

Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said implementing the food security plan could involve great financial risks.

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Updated on Oct 20, 2011 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Pawar pushes for sugar and onion export, Thomas differs

Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has made a fresh move for easing restrictions on sugar and onion export, even as Union food minister KV Thomas appears reluctant, fearing an adverse impact on domestic prices in the festive season.

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Updated on Oct 18, 2011 11:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | BySaubhadra Chatterji and Zia Haq, New Delhi

India’s N-plan failsafe: Minister

India is basing its nuclear programme on the most recent technologies available, which makes it failsafe, minister of state in the Prime Minister’s office, V. Narayanasamy, has said.

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Updated on Oct 17, 2011 12:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

India to help Myanmar in rice cultivation

Myanmar president Thein Sein on Saturday said he looked to India for his country’s food security, a comment that signals a big opening for India in a neighbour that has long relied on Beijing.

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Updated on Oct 16, 2011 01:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

PM seeks church help to quell anti-nuke protests

To overcome resistance to nuclear power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought help from unlikely quarters: the church.

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Updated on Oct 14, 2011 01:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Thomas sticks to sugar output stand, Pawar differs

Food minister KV Thomas on Monday said he could allow millers to export more sugar, but that decision is likely to be based on his ministry’s estimates of production, rather than that of the manufacturers or farm minister Sharad Pawar’s.

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Updated on Oct 11, 2011 12:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Protein shake up

Protein-rich foods are replacing basic bread-and-butter in the nation’s dietary demands — the inability of farms to keep up is one of the reasons why Indians pay a high price for food. Zia Haq reports. Feeling the pinch

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Updated on Oct 09, 2011 02:36 AM IST
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Food law to be new poverty benchmark

A fresh set of multi-dimensional indicators - not the official poverty line - will be used to identify 46% of all Indians who will make up a 'priority' class for highly subsidised food entitlements, food minister KV Thomas has said. Zia Haq reports. The number game

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Updated on Oct 08, 2011 02:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

'Pollution from Europe drying up monsoon'

India's monsoon-the lifeblood of Asia's third-largest economy-is drying up because of air pollution over European countries, according to a new study in the journal Science, findings which have been treated with caution by the Indian Met department. A study by Princeton University

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Updated on Oct 03, 2011 01:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

'Heretical' Ahmadiyya sect raises Muslim hackles

They proudly claim to be Muslims but are laughed off by mainstream Islam as "fakes". The dispute goes beyond mere ridicule. From Pakistan to Indonesia, the Ahmadiyyas are often killed for believing in their own line of subordinate prophets after Mohammed. Now, as they try to assert themselves in India, the sect's very birthplace, a conflict looks likely.

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Updated on Oct 02, 2011 11:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Arab Spring shapes new Islamic orders

Some Arab countries are following up their march towards democracy with a far more vital debate: what kind of Islam to have. Zia Haq writes.

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Updated on Sep 27, 2011 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Casablanca

Reforms, open society keeps uprising off in Morocco

As the evening chergui, a mild Atlantic breeze, blows across the squeaky clean Moroccan capital, the city's hip young crowds are out on the tidy streets, cafes and parks. There's no sign of an Arab spring here. Nor is one being expected. Zia Haq writes.

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Updated on Sep 25, 2011 11:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Rabat

No respite from high food prices till 2012

Food prices are likely to remain high this year despite a better-than-expected monsoon, staying closer to the double-digit zone until mid-2012, economists say. Zia Haq reports. Inflation triggers

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Updated on Sep 13, 2011 01:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

India to update quake profile, assess threats

India will undertake an assortment of geological missions to update the country's earthquake profile. One of these will, for the first time, mark out highly localised vulnerable municipal zones within major north Indian cities, like Delhi. Zia Haq reports. Shock and awe: for a safer India

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Updated on Sep 09, 2011 02:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

To push productivity, PM steps on science gas

Taking a leaf out of his predecessor Rajiv Gandhi's penchant for science, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working on a national plan to make India a scientific powerhouse in 10 years. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Sep 06, 2011 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Govt set to curb onion exports

Markets could run low on onions again, prompting the government to consider taking a key monetary step to curb exports and check domestic prices from spiralling. Zia Haq reports. Upsetting the budget

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Updated on Sep 06, 2011 01:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Small cities foot huge food bills

Prices of some food items have been climbing higher in smaller cities compared to bigger ones, and Mumbai residents pay some of the highest food prices in the country, five-year data from the government's Price Monitoring Cell show.

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Updated on Sep 02, 2011 02:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

$10 mn Monsanto research grant for Indian staples

Global seeds company Monsanto has announced grants worth $10 million (Rs 46 crore) to enable Indian scientists to search for productivity breakthroughs in wheat and rice under the Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Programme, the biggest such private funding of farm research in the country.

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Updated on Aug 25, 2011 11:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Gong sounded here, Indians abroad hear

Thousands squatting on Delhi's Ramlila Ground, calling for a tough law to check corruption, are being joined by Indians in major American and European cities. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Aug 25, 2011 12:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Muslims spurn Team Anna

Anti-corruption leader Anna Hazare sent his closest aides — Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal — to reach out to some prominent Muslims for support, but the two emissaries only faced a barrage of pointed questions from a “circumspect” community. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Boardroom-style strategies behind blockbuster success

On stage, a steadfast Anna Hazare lies firm and unfazed, occasionally waving to the crowds. Backstage, military precision goes into preparing for another day of what has been an iconic protest-cum-carnival. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 12:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Anti-Anna voices grow louder

Voices against Anna Hazare, so far inaudible in the course of his high-decibel campaign, are getting louder. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Aug 23, 2011 02:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

GM crops to N-plants, all protest roads lead to Ramlila

At ground zero of Anna Hazare's protest, hooters sell for Rs 5, headgears for Rs 15 and tricolour festoons for Rs 10. The right to dissent comes free.

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Updated on Aug 21, 2011 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

British MP impressed by well-behaved protesters

British MP Keith Vaz on Thursday was all praise for the manner in which young Indians are expressing dissent, although he said the current anti-corruption upsurge was an internal issue he hoped to be soon resolved. Vaz is the first Indian-descent politician to sit in the House of Commons since 1922.

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Updated on Aug 19, 2011 02:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

How activists planned a revolution

The groundswell of support for Anna Hazare may look a spontaneous build-up on television. That is true, in part. On the ground, support is mobilised with precision and by following standard operating procedures. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Aug 17, 2011 01:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

No Gmail, Hotmail please. We're govt

Use of free email accounts by those in the government, shunning official ones created by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), has sparked security concerns. Zia Haq reports.

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Updated on Aug 17, 2011 01:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
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