-The Telegraph PM Modi’s Gabbar Singh Tax is the best example of his modus operandi — talk big, and when it’s time to act, make things worse: Congress Traders and shopkeepers will hold a nationwide protest next week against a hike in taxes on a range of products, including food grains and household items, and services that kicked in from Monday. “The 5 per cent goods and services tax on a range of...
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Is crude, edible oil inflation relief on the cards for India? -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times The fuel and energy basket sub-component has a share of 6.84% in the CPI basket. For oil and fats (edible oil) sub-category, this share is 3.56%. A simple calculation using the weighted share of these two sub-components shows that they have been a key driver of headline inflation in the past few months. India’s benchmark inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been above the 6%...
More »Nobody approved India's 'Precautionary' doses -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Prime Minister Modi announced the rollout of booster doses. * In reply to a series of RTI applications by The Wire Science, the PMO and the health ministry refused to divulge details of the government’s decision-making. * One reply indicated that the government had misled the Supreme Court about the availability of the minutes of an...
More »What’s causing mass fish death in India’s ponds and lakes? -Ananya Vyas
-Mongabay India * Every year, several ponds and lakes across various Indian states become sites of mass fish deaths. * The primary cause for this phenomenon is water pollution, most often stemming from anthropogenic activities. * A key parameter of water quality is dissolved oxygen which can indicate the capacity of a water body to support aquatic life. In a survey of water bodies across six Indian states, not a single water body...
More »DTE Explains: The science of cloudbursts -Preetha Banerjee
-Down to Earth Telangana Chief Minister said cloudbursts may be a 'foreign conspiracy' during his visit to flood-hid Bhadrachalam India, especially its Himalayan states Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, are devastated by cloudbursts several times moslty during the monsoon season. Flash floods caused by a cloudburst in Uttarakhand in 2013, killing thousands of people, is one of the worst natural disasters the country recorded since the 2004 tsunami. Climate change has been making these...
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