-The Hindu The acceleration will leave the RBI less space to cut rates Wholesale price inflation accelerated to a 23-month high of 3.6 per cent in July, driven mainly by higher food prices, according to official data.The pace of price gains as measured by the wholesale price index more than doubled in July from 1.62 per cent in June, leaving the Reserve Bank of India even less elbow room to cut benchmark...

-DNA Only 17% rural households take loans from financial institutions | Caste affiliation, gender play a part in getting credit As many as 31% of rural households in India are indebted and a significant number still depend on money-lenders, paying heavy interests, despite various government schemes and a network of rural banking. A parliamentary panel that probed the state of rural, agricultural banking found that a mere 17% rural household had taken...

-The Hindu Business Line Ahmedabad: The Centre is planning to develop kiosks for farmers at railway stations to facilitate e-auctions of agriculture products, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Parshottam Rupala, said here at the 9th International Summit on Food Processing, Agribusiness and Dairy. Speaking at the summit, Rupala said the Centre is planning kiosks for farmers, which will be made available soon at Railway stations. Speaking on Rail Cold...

-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: With the Union government gearing up to take a decision on whether to allow genetically modified (GM) mustard, anti-GM activists, non-governmental organisations and farmers’ associations have decided to exert pressure on States to stall any move to allow GM in food crops. Arguing that agriculture is a State subject and that States have to bear the brunt of any fallout, the activists have decided to meet the...

-The Hindu Kerala today is not generating enough jobs to meet the expectations of educated Keralites entering the labour market. Changing this is vital and doable Kerala’s development model is in focus yet again as the newly elected Left Democratic Front government is in the process of evolving a vision for the State’s economy. On the one hand, Kerala has made spectacular achievements in land reforms, education, and health since its formation. Amartya...