-The Indian Express Government’s actions on the commodity reveals it is ignorant of how a market economy is run With each passing day this year, agriculture seems to be sagging and so is the Indian farmer. Deficit monsoon rains appear to be the trigger. Although rains offered some respite to Marathwada, the situation in India’s largest agri-state, Uttar Pradesh, has gone from bad to worse. Last year’s drought, with monsoon rains falling...
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Number of children studying in English doubles in 5 years -Rema Nagarajan
-The Times of India Politicians might try hard to push Hindi, but people are voting with their feet, opting to put their children in English-medium schools. While overall enrolment in schools went up by just 7.5% between 2008-09 and 2013-14, and enrolment in Hindi-medium schools went up by about 25%, enrolment in English-medium schools almost doubled in the same period. While the number of English-medium school students is still dwarfed by those in...
More »Delhi: 5,151 Dengue Cases Reported in September
-Outlook New Delhi: Nearly 2,200 fresh cases of dengue have been reported in the last one week, taking the seasons total to around a whopping 6,000 as hospitals across the city continued to be flooded with patients affected by the mosquito-borne fever in which 33 people have died so far. According to official figure released today, at least 5,151 patients were found to be down with dengue between September 1-26, making it...
More »‘District courts will take 10 years to clear cases’ -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Of the two crore pending cases, two-thirds are criminal At the rate at which cases were disposed by India’s district courts last month, India could get rid of all pending cases in ten years, an analysis of new official data shows. Six states, however – Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir – disposed fewer cases than were filed during the month, indicating that at this rate,...
More »Pulses could rise 10-15% on festival demand, says Assocham study -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The prices of pulses can shoot up by 10-15 per cent in the run up to the festival season, according to an Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (Assocham) study released here on Friday. The trade body estimates that India will import over 10 million tonnes (mt) of pulses since domestic production is likely to be limited to around 17 mt on the back of a...
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