-The Hindu Business Line Consumers bore brunt of more expensive onion, potato and vegetables Wholesale inflation fell to 0.58 per cent in November 2019, down from 4.47 per cent in November 2018. Sequentially, wholesale inflation reported an increase, rising from 0.16 per cent in October 2019, according to a statement by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Please click here to read more. ...
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Onion crisis reveals how little the Government can do when the chips are down -Siraj Hussain
-TheWire.in Even if we had enough buffer stock, which we don't, the Centre has no delivery mechanism. The only viable alternative is to create modern storage infrastructure, but who is interested in doing that? It appears that it is the humble onion which is finally teaching urban India’s middle class of the perils of climate change. The deniers may still not want to believe it, but the current crisis of high onion...
More »Onion shortage: Here's why farmers gained little from record PRIce rise -Dilip Kumar Jha
-Business Standard Farmers across the country have suffered a double whammy this year - first, their crop from last season was spoilt by floods, and then onion yield also dropped due to moisture in fields Lasalgaon: Raghunath Sawant, an onion farmer from Niphad taluka in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, is a worried man. And, he is not alone. Despite onion PRIces hitting Rs 130 a kg in the wholesale market, Sawant has not...
More »Mother Dairy, Amul hike milk PRIces across various states
-PTI The new PRIces will be effective from December 15 India’s leading dairy firm Amul on Saturday announced hiking milk PRIces by Rs.2 per litre across various States, while Mother Dairy increased rates by up to Rs.3 per litre in Delhi-NCR due to rise in procurement cost. The new PRIces will be effective from Sunday, Mother Dairy and Amul said in separate statements. Please click here to read more. ...
More »New citizenship law in India 'fundamentally discriminatory': UN human rights office
-United Nations News A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.” The amendment to the Citizenship Act gives PRIority to Hindus, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians resident in India before 2014, but excludes Muslims, including minority sects. “Although India’s broader naturalization laws remain in place, these amendments will have a...
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