-The Financial Express The Indian success story increasingly looks like a tale of naivety and optimistic complacency. The Indian success story increasingly looks like a tale of naivety and optimistic complacency, with the fantasy of ‘India Shining' obfuscating the reality of widespread deprivation. Despite rapid economic growth during the past decade, millions continue to live in poverty and hunger. The Indian government aims to address abject hunger and malnutrition with the National Food...

-PTI   New Delhi: Subsidised LPG cylinders can be purchased without having an Aadhaar account, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. A clarification on delinking Aadhaar account from disbursal of subsidised LPG cylinders would be issued within a week, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Veerappa Moily said during Question Hour. 'A clarification will be issued within a week,' he said. As far as Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) is concerned, Cabinet has decided to...

-DNA Maharashtra: To stop the destruction of forests and increase its green cover to 33% as laid down in the national policy, the state forests department has launched a campaign to rope in villagers to voluntarily enable regeneration of forests. It has distributed subsidised LPG cylinders and grants for biogas plants and stall fed and high value milch animals (as against scrub fed cattle) to around 40,000 families living on the periphery...

-Outlook Following are the highlights of interim budget 2014-15: Income tax rates kept unchanged 10 pc surcharge on 'super-rich' having annual income above Rs 1 crore to continue 10 pc surcharge on domestic corporates with income of Rs 10 crore Foodgrain production estimated at 263 million tonnes in 2013-14 Fiscal deficit at 4.6 pc in 2013-14...

-Outlook Kolkata: Providing a cheaper and eco-friendly alternative to auto-rickshaws, new e-rickshaws which runs on electric batteries was launched here today. Categorised in between a pedal rickshaw and an auto-rickshaw, the battery-operated e-rickshaws can run upto a speed of 25 km per hour and can accommodate around 4-5 passengers. "It is a zero emission vehicle and while running the engine produces no sound," Zafar Faridi, CEO of Dianzi rickshaw, told reporters after the...