-Live Mint After a record harvest of 90.23 mt this year, the govt’s wheat stocks were at 38.2 mt as of 1 May Worry lines run deep on the faces of wheat farmers in Sehrala in Haryana as falling prices, higher input costs and poor infrastructure erode earnings and cast doubt over not just their next crop, but their future in agriculture as well. Agents in the grain market of Ballabgarh said spot...
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Buying property, jewellery? Govt may ask for receipts-Gaurav Choudhury and Nagendar Sharma
The government may make mandatory the disclosure of high-value purchases such as property and jewellery. Stung by growing public outrage over corruption, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will on Monday spell out steps taken and planned to curb proliferation of black money. There are no clear estimates of the size of India’s black economy but the amount is pegged between $462 billion (Rs.22 lakh crore) and $1.4 trillion (Rs.77 lakh crore). Mukherjee...
More »The Raja Who Stole From The Poor-Ashish Khetan
As food and civil supplies minister in the previous SP regime, Raja Bhaiya swindled Rs 100 crore from the PDS. As he presides over the food ministry once again, Ashish Khetan exposes the shocking loot A LITTLE MORE than a month ago, Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, earned a landslide victory on the idea of hope: Ummeed ki cycle. He had promised clean governance and a corruption-free government. When...
More »Area under cotton in Punjab to drop by 60,000 hectares
-PTI The area under cotton in Punjab is likely to drop by 60,000 hectares this kharif season with farmers likely to switch over to guar crop, a state government official said on Saturday. The area under cotton is expected to be five lakh hectares this year as compared to 5.6 lakh hectares last year as some of the area under cultivation is likely to be used for guar crop, which has...
More »“Food security Bill will ensure full supply of essentials”
-The Hindu Measures taken by the Rajasthan Government for ensuring food security to vulnerable sections were highlighted at a conference of Agriculture and Food Ministers of States in New Delhi on Wednesday. A special reference to the reforms planned in the Public Distribution System was made on the occasion. Addressing the conference, Rajasthan Food and Civil Supplies Minister Parsadilal Meena said his department would shortly start distribution of kerosene to below poverty line...
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