-News18.com Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala figured at the top of the crime data for 2016 released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh topped the crime stats for 2016, accounting for 9.5% of the total crimes committed in the country, showed data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Thursday. Uttar Pradesh was followed by Madhya Pradesh (8.9%), Maharashtra (8.8%) and Kerala (8.7%). Here’s...
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Puri defies economists, says Delhi Metro woes not due to fares -Jasmine Shah
-The Indian Express DMRC and Union minister for urban development Hardeep Singh Puri are right that the daily ridership of Delhi Metro hasn’t declined by 3 lakhs due to fare hike. It has declined by 4.8 lakhs. Economists are frequent targets of ridicule by politicians for failing to predict crises or having vastly differing opinions of major economic events (e.g. demonetisation). But all economists agree on one fundamental tenet — demand reduces...
More »Delhi Metro ridership falls by 3.2 lakh during fare-hike month
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro witnessed a massive dip of more than three lakh in daily ridership in October this year as compared with the previous month. This is the steepest month-to-month fall in Metro ridership ever and appears to be linked to the fare hike in October. On October 10, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) implemented the second phase of fare hike after the first round of...
More »Money is getting diverted away from small farmers: TISS Agro Economist -NS Vageesh
-The Hindu Business Line Mumbai: The flow of agricultural credit may have increased from ?96,000 crore in 2004 to ?10 lakh crore now; about 18,000 new rural branches have been set up and yet there is an agrarian crisis because of definitional dilusions as well as diversion of funds from the needy small farmers, Professor Ramakumaar, Agro Economist, Tata Insitute of Social Sciences (TISS), said on Monday. He was speaking at...
More »Delhi,NCR towns need to fight air pollution together -Shivani Singh
-Hindustan Times While Delhi came under flak for running fewer buses than that it did three years ago and therefore failing to enforce blanket road rationing, compliance of even basic anti-pollution measures was impossible in the NCR because of poor infrastructure. The Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) mandated by the Supreme Court to counter air pollution was meant to be an effort in regional cooperation. The entire National Capital Region (NCR), which...
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