Partha Sarathi Biwas is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express with 10+ years of experience in reporting on Agriculture, Commodities and Developmental issues. He has been with The Indian Express since 2011 and earlier worked with DNA....Read More
Partha Sarathi Biwas is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express with 10+ years of experience in reporting on Agriculture, Commodities and Developmental issues. He has been with The Indian Express since 2011 and earlier worked with DNA. Partha's report about Farmers Producer Companies (FPC) as well long pieces on various agricultural issues have been cited by various academic publications including those published by the Government of India. He is often invited as a visiting faculty to various schools of journalism to talk about development journalism and rural reporting. In his spare time Partha trains for marathons and has participated in multiple marathons and half marathons.
Nov 20, 2024 17:30 IST
While some sugar mills in Maharashtra arranged for cane cutters to travel to their villages to vote...
Wed, Nov 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024 14:23 IST
With voting underway for Assembly elections, residents of cooperative housing societies in Pune and...
Thu, Nov 21, 2024
Nov 20, 2024 09:15 IST
Manasi Goilkar of Shrikhandi Trust said the government and parties have not taken up the issue of...
Wed, Nov 20, 2024
Nov 19, 2024 08:24 IST
As labour shortages intensify, a factory in Latur district is set to be the first in India to use...
Tue, Nov 19, 2024
Nov 18, 2024 00:53 IST
When Jarange Patil started his movement to include the Marathas within the OBC category, he had...
Mon, Nov 18, 2024
Nov 16, 2024 07:28 IST
For long, sugar in Maharashtra has been synonymous with the cooperative sector. However, over the...
Sat, Nov 16, 2024
Nov 15, 2024 18:56 IST
Petition in court urging EC to arrange for migrating labourers to vote; things may get most sticky...
Tue, Nov 19, 2024
Nov 13, 2024 21:11 IST
Patil, who spoke to Partha Sarathi Biswas, spoke about about how the MVA might suffer because of...
Wed, Nov 13, 2024
Nov 13, 2024 12:47 IST
Move raises hackles among industry stakeholders, who say it doesn’t capture the true picture and...
Wed, Nov 13, 2024
Nov 12, 2024 18:51 IST
With elections soon to be held in Maharashtra, India’s largest onion-producing state, the current...
Wed, Nov 13, 2024
Nov 12, 2024 16:12 IST
Congress MLA Balasaheb Thorat says the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s victory, not the chief ministerial...
Wed, Nov 13, 2024
Nov 11, 2024 04:55 IST
Soyabean, grown on over 5 million hectares in Maharashtra, is the real "political crop" in this...
Mon, Nov 11, 2024
Nov 05, 2024 16:56 IST
In view of the Assembly elections, Maharashtra government has fixed November 15 as the start date...
Tue, Nov 05, 2024
Oct 30, 2024 14:02 IST
Local issues take precedence, while matters such as the inclusion of the Dhangar community in the...
Wed, Oct 30, 2024
Oct 29, 2024 16:43 IST
As they prepare to contest the Maharashtra Assembly elections, Marathas rally behind quota activist...
Tue, Oct 29, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 06:39 IST
Maharashtra elections: There is no drought this time, unlike in the last two elections. But low...
Sat, Nov 02, 2024
Oct 22, 2024 12:14 IST
From increasing the number of voting booths at housing societies to appointing transgender icons,...
Tue, Oct 22, 2024
Oct 18, 2024 19:31 IST
Pratap Patil Chikhalikar, the sitting BJP MP, while a long time rival of Ashok Chavan had mended...
Fri, Oct 18, 2024
Oct 17, 2024 17:59 IST
Dhiraj Deshmukh, Congress MLA from Latur (Rural), said the party will raise issues related to...
Thu, Oct 17, 2024
Oct 13, 2024 12:17 IST
Dheeraj Borde gave up a high-paying job to pursue his passion, and established a one-stop shop for...
Sun, Oct 13, 2024
Oct 12, 2024 03:49 IST
This scheme, launched by the ruling Eknath Shinde-led Mahayuti coalition in July, provides a direct...
Sat, Oct 12, 2024
Oct 10, 2024 17:53 IST
Manohar Paralkar , former HR head of Tata Motors, remembers Ratan Tata as a man whose concern for...
Thu, Oct 10, 2024
Oct 09, 2024 05:10 IST
Customers around the country are paying at least Rs 80-90/ kg for tomato. Consumer price data...
Wed, Oct 23, 2024
Oct 07, 2024 19:44 IST
Former minister Harshvardhan Patil becomes the latest to join the MVA, in a reversal of a trend...
Tue, Oct 08, 2024
Oct 06, 2024 14:49 IST
The ‘end of monsoon report’ recently published by the India Meteorological Department (IMD)...
Sun, Oct 06, 2024