-The Hindu Business Line The surge in non-farm employment has led to a rural consumption splurge, making listed companies bullish Is rural India languishing in abject misery, or is it on a cheerful spending spree? Today you can get diametrically opposing views on this, depending on where you get your information. If you are an avid follower of news, then you would be firmly in the pessimist camp, having read all about...
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Delhi food minister 'shocked' to learn many ration cards cancelled by food commissioner -Alok KN Mishra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In the wake of the department of food supplies and consumers affairs stopping ration of many beneficiaries who did not avail their entitled ration for three consecutive months from January to March this without the approval of the food minister, minister Imran Hussain has hit out at the new food commissioner Mohanjeet Singh and said that he is shocked over it. “I am shocked. The circular...
More »Petrol, diesel prices hiked after 19 days
-PTI Oil PSUs, who had kept rates unchanged for nearly three weeks before Karnataka went to polls despite input cost spiking, reverted to daily revision in prices on Monday New Delhi: After a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus, petrol price was today hiked by 17 paise a litre and diesel by 21 paise as PSU oil firms began passing on the spike witnessed in international rates to consumers. Petrol price in Delhi was hiked...
More »This east Delhi colony is now powered by Sun
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After Dwarka, a cooperative housing society in east Delhi has now gone solar. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated a 140 kWp solar PV plant at Milan Vihar cooperative society in IP Extension on Sunday. According to officials, the plant will generate 1.7 lakh units in a year and the society will earn Rs 3.4 lakh per year as generation-based incentive. Sources said many other housing societies...
More »How State budgets will fare if petrol, diesel are brought under GST -Rohan Abraham
-The Hindu While consumers will be glad to see their fuel bills slashed by the advent of a favourable rate structure under the GST, State governments will have to contend with an erosion in tax revenue. At the time of writing, petrol was retailing at Rs.82.48/litre in Mumbai, roughly 62% more than the Rs.50.8/litre Pakistanis shell out for a tank of gas. This is despite the fact that crude oil prices are...
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