-Livemint.com Supply constraints due to lower output, higher demand on increasing incomes behind spike in prices, says report New Delhi: Inflation has come down sharply this year alongside a softening in food prices, but the rise in the prices of pulses—the second most important part of the Indian diet after cereals—has been the sharpest in a decade, Crisil Research said in a report on Monday. Retail and wholesale inflation were at 42%...

-FirstPost.com Even as the Narendra Modi government has been making claims that India’s rural economy has gained pace under his rule, empirical evidence suggests that the health of country’s rural economy may not have improved much on account of declining or stagnant income levels. The situation, experts say, is unlikely to change in the near future as there are low chances of a revival in rural income generation. A survey by brokerage...

-The Hindu The government on Tuesday gave a clean chit to former Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan in a case connected to ‘benami’ property transactions involving his relatives. Appearing in the Supreme Court, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said enquiries against former CJI sets a dangerous precedent. The court however remained skeptical of the government’s stand. A bench LED by Justice Dipak Misra said if “persons earning Rs. 100 buy properties worth Rs. 10 lakh,...

-The Hindu Business Line As the Right to Information Act completes 10 years, we examine how RTI has changed people’s lives, become a byword for democracy, and helped alter the relationship between citizen and state Mintu Devi’s relationship with the ration shop changed the day she fiLED an RTI. In the jhuggis of New Seemapuri, situated on the northeastern edge of Delhi, she is a legend. The 37-year-old mother of four is...

-The Times of India A Food Stall's Success At A Tribal Fair In 2006 LED To A Restaurant Chain Ahmedabad: Freshly cooked traditional tribal food served to people visiting a fair in Dang around nine years ago was such a hit that it LED to women's empowerment through a chain of restaurants. The group of women that had set up the stall at the tribal fair decided to go ahead and capitalize...