-The Indian Express While mills are required, by law, to pay the SAP amount within 14 days of cane purchase, the Malakpur factory has till date disbursed a mere Rs 32 crore. That amounts to less than 7 per cent of what is due to its 34,000-odd farmers. Baghpat (U.P.): On the road to the sugar mill in Malakpur, the number of flies first multiply, then quadruply. It’s late May and the...
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India's GDP grows 7.7% in Q4, retains fastest growing economy tag
-PTI NEW DELHI: India's GDP grew at the fastest pace in seven quarters at 7.7 per cent in January-March, retaining the fastest growing major economy tag on robust performance by manufacturing and service sectors as well as good farm output. India's economic expansion at 7.7 per cent was significantly higher than China's 6.8 per cent in the January-March period. However, the Indian economy on yearly basis grew at a four-year low of 6.7...
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-Press Note by Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP), dated 28 May, 2018 Mr Narendra Modi is perhaps the first Prime Minister of India to have not held a single press conference, four years at a stretch. This could not however have been unrelated to a series of events that raise fresh concerns about media freedom. The concerted online hate campaign against journalist Ms Rana Ayyub, and the circulation of a fake pornographic...
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-NDTV.om The government has asked schools to refund the fees to the parents, failing which strict action will be taken against them. New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi government has taken tough stand against excess fees levied by schools as part of its initiative 'rendering education as a service'. The government has asked schools to refund the fees to the parents, failing which strict action will be taken against them....
More »Poll fetters off, oil in daily dash
-The Telegraph/ PTI New Delhi: Petrol prices have touched a record high of Rs 76.24 per litre and diesel climbed to a highest ever Rs 67.57 in New Delhi with the oil PSUs passing on to consumers the impact of four weeks of a relentless rise in international prices. The price of petrol rose by 33 paise a litre in Delhi, the highest since the daily price revisions came into force in...
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