The Hindu

A complaint lodged by the U.S. at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against India’s farm subsidies is baseless, according to Indian diplomatic sources.

The Indian Express

Maharashtra which used to receive the largest share of agriculture credit has been overtaken by states such as Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in fiscal 2017 despite a large number of banks being headquartered in the state. During the fiscal ended March 2017, Maharashtra, which incidentally reports a number of farmer suicides every year, accounted for outstanding farm credit of Rs 98,000 crore while Uttar Pradesh with Rs 122,000 crore and Tamil Nadu with Rs 124,100 crore of outstanding farm credit respectively overtook the largest industrialised state in the country, according to the Reserve Bank of India data.

The Pioneer

Food supplies, Consumer Welfare and Cooperation Minister Surjya Narayan Patro said that the loan would be provided to the landless farmers who take up agricultural tasks in other people’s farmlands on sharecropping basis.

The Hans India

Telangana Today

Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali said the State government’s exercise to purify land records paved way for easy implementation of Rs 12,000 crore Rythu Bandhu scheme, farmers’ investment support scheme. He along with Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari took part in the distribution of pattadar passbooks and cheques to farmers at Kyatanpally under Dharmasagar mandal on Friday.

Moneycontrol

The concept of automation itself is very old, in fact in many areas we take automation for granted without realising it. For instance, can we today think of a bank without ATMs? Automated Teller Machines replaced the manual task of verifying one’s credentials, linking the credentials with the individual’s account, make necessary check and eventually disbursement of the cash.

The Indian Express

In Karnataka’s already tightly triangulated (Congress, BJP, and JDS) electoral race, the contestations and counter-contestations between the political parties have become louder and more ambitious. Political manifestos promise a dream list of good governance, and social media representations of political candidates draw on epic and film hero styles, and there is humour, spoof, and vulgarity between political competitors.