Much awaited getaway from the lockdown

'Hope your weekend is less strenuous than ours,' says Kishore Singh. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com About this time, three months ago, a kink that had been acting up in the solar system at......

How futures trading affects farmers

In June, Ram Kumar of village Jandwala Hadmanta in Punjab's Abohar district received a cheque of Rs 520,000. In his 20 years as a farmer, Kumar had never held such a huge amount. The post-dated......