-The Economic Times Inflation - retail as well as wholesale - has increased in March over relatively benign levels in February. At 5.7%, the growth of inflation based on the wholesale price index ( WPI) was at a three-month high, compared to a ninemonth low of 4.7% seen in February. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) now sets policy rates by looking at inflation based on the consumer price index (CPI)....
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Beyond traditional farming -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express Crops not enough to sustain them, farmers make it work with dairy, fishery, and implement hiring. Jalandhar: When Harinder Singh of Bhamri village in Kadian block of Gurdaspur district graduated in 2008, his family wanted him to take up postgraduation and go abroad to improve his prospects. Harinder, however, had other ideas - he insisted that he would stay on in the village and follow the family occupation of...
More »Climate warming may hit India's food securiy system: Report
-PTI High levels of warming resulting from continued growth in greenhouse gas emissions may hit India's food security system with a global report warning that the impact could be "more severe" on the country' rice and maize production. Like crops, the country's fisheries could also be negatively affected by climate change, says a report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in Yokohama, Japan. It says that emissions of CO2 often...
More »Health expense is a major burden on rural citizenry
The share of total expenditure on medical and healthcare is comparatively higher for an average rural citizen than his/her urban counterpart, reveals the latest available National Sample Survey Report (68th Round) entitled Level and Pattern of Consumer Expenditure 2011-12. Although an average urban Indian spends nearly 84 percent higher than his/her rural counterpart in a month, the share of total outlay on medical expense* is higher in case of the...
More »Rajya Sabha panel for review of meat export policy -Vijay Pinjarkar
-The Times of India NAGPUR: A Rajya Sabha Committee on Petitions has urged the government to review meat export policy and recommended not to grant permission for any new slaughter house until a critical analysis by a dedicated commission is complete. It also advocated a review of policy of giving subsidies to meat exporters. The report was submitted on February 13 by a 10-member committee headed by Bhagat Singh Koshyari. MP from...
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