-The Hindu Rural Indians do not seem to have benefitted as much from falling inflation as their urban counterparts. While inflation has been slowing both in rural and urban areas of the country, there is a widening difference between the two as rural inflation is decelerating at a much slower pace. The resultant gap between rural and urban inflation has more than doubled over the last one year, data analysed by HSBC...
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‘One-third of Delhi households paid bribe last year’ -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Corruption in LPG Distribution had increased the most, while police was the agency most likely to require a bribe. Nearly half of Delhi’s respondents in a survey on corruption said it had decreased in the State government, but a third of households reported having had to pay a bribe in the last 12 months. Respondents felt that corruption in the Distribution of LPG had increased the most, while the police...
More »In Odisha, no dal for the dalma -Jayashree Nandi
-The Times of India BATAGUDA (Odisha): Women and men working on the hillsides is a common sight when travelling through Odisha's Kandhamal district. All day, they crouch in the scorching sun, using crude tools to break large rocks into little stones. It takes each person several days to fill a 5ft-tall container with enough stones to earn about Rs 900. Most tribal women do this backbreaking work but with hardly any proteins...
More »Govt to import another 3,000 tonnes of pulses
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Monday decided to import another 3,000 tonnes of pulses — 2,000 tonnes of arhar and 1,000 tonnes of urad — as retail price of arhar crossed Rs 200 per kg in two southern cities, Mysuru and Puducherry. The daily prices of essential commodities across cities compiled by the consumer affairs department showed arhar selling at Rs 205 per kg in Mysuru and at...
More »Recipe for failure
-The Hindu Business Line Our pulses trade and output policies are made with the wrong ingredients The present spike in prices of pulses is a fallout of both structural and short-term factors. Years of flawed production and trade policies, along with the absence of technological breakthroughs to improve yields, have led to stagnation in output. The retail prices of pulses have galloped along at a faster rate ever since the fourth advance...
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