Senior United Nations officials today called for urgent steps to rein in the rising prices for basic farm produce, petroleum and raw industrial materials whose volatility hits the world’s poorest people the hardest. “Such volatility has huge negative impacts on vulnerable groups, such as low-income households in developing countries, for whom food expenditure can account for up to 80 per cent of household budgets,” UN Conference on Trade and Development...
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Five years of MG-NREGS, World’s Largest Rural Job Scheme
Five years is a short period but the achievements are awesome. About ten crore poorest of India’s poor have opened personal accounts in Banks or post offices; people demand work because it is their right; it has already regenerated ponds and water bodies and other community assets in thousands of villages; men and women get equal wages for equal work and ordinary people have a right to audit development works...
More »Rampant Speculation Inflated Food Price Bubble by Stephen Leahy
Billions of dollars are being made by investors in a speculative "food bubble" that's created record food prices, starving millions and destabilising countries, experts now conclude. Wall Street investment firms and Banks, along with their kin in London and Europe, were responsible for the technology dot-com bubble, the stock market bubble, and the recent U.S. and UK housing bubbles. They extracted enormous profits and their bonuses before the inevitable collapse of...
More »Rs 600 crore allocated for Crop-affected Farmers
As a part of Statewide visit in crop affected areas, the Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan today reached Daiyarpur village in Vidisha district and comforted crop affected farmers. He informed that the State Government has increased relief amount from Rs 500 crore to Rs 600crore in order to extend maximum financial help to crop affected farmers. No different yardstick will be applied in distribution works. Every affected farmers will...
More »Finance ministry rules out tax amnesty for black money
The finance ministry has ruled out a fresh tax amnesty scheme, saying that no such proposal was on the table. Ministry officials told Parliament's Standing Committee on Thursday that the issue of a new tax amnesty has not even been discussed, scotching the speculation suggesting that one was being mulled. The officials said that they did not know how this started. Members of the Standing Committee asked the government to use India's...
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