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Shameful that garbage hill can kill: Tribunal

-PTI New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal today came down heavily on the AAP government and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) over the Ghazipur landfill collapse in which two persons were killed, saying "nothing can be more humiliating than people being killed under garbage hill". The green panel issued notices to them while directing them to show cause why punitive action should not be taken against the Delhi government and criminal...

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Centre keeping a tab on onion prices

-The Hindu Business Line Why is it up despite a bumper crop? New Delhi: The Centre on Monday said it is closely monitoring the price and availability of onions, as there is no reason for the price of the essential vegetable going up considering the bumper production this year. According to the third advance estimate of horticulture production, as much as 217.2 lakh tonnes of onion were produced in 2016-17, compared to the...

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On the Economic Implications of Restrictions on Cow Slaughter -Vikas Rawal

-Macroscan.org India's livestock economy is among the biggest in the world. A ban on cow slaughter would either result in more and more unproductive animals being killed in most UNSCientific and cruel ways or would entail such a high cost for maintaining unproductive animals that cattle rearing would cease to be a profitable enterprise for farm households. Restrictions being imposed on cow slaughter and the actions of the cow vigilantes would...

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Farmers can opt for multiple crops to escape glut crisis -Krishna Thevar

-The Economic Times MUMBAI: What has made the Maharashtra farmer hit the streets, dump his produce and even attack suppliers? A combination of weather, UNSCrupulous middlemen and lack of discretion on crop seems to have wreaked havoc on their lives. Rainfall in Maharashtra has been deficient in 2011 and the situation turned worse leading to a severe drought till 2015. In 2016, farmers got relief with normal rains, when they got back...

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Can we measure demonetisation's impact on income tax collections? -Roshan Kishore

-Livemint.com One-off gains from Income Disclosure Scheme 2016 call for scepticism about any immediate claims of demonetisation having widened India’s income tax net News reports have quoted government officials making claims about a record increase in the number of income tax payers in 2016-17. Should such claims be seen as a success of demonetisation in forcing UNSCrupulous individuals to become a part of income tax net? An analysis of direct tax collection...

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