-The New Indian Express The latest growth PRInt also implies that restoring both India's fastest growing economy tag and the ballyhooed USD 5-trillion target will be further delayed It's official. India's economy has been reduced from flesh to bone with September quarter GDP growth crashing to a 26-quarter-low of 4.5 per cent. Just a quarter before, it grew at 5 per cent, which now appears respectable than the latest PRInt. The Central Statistics Office's...
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Uttar Pradesh: 1 litre milk diluted with one bucket water served to over-80 students in Sonbhadra school
-The Indian Express A video surfaced on social media, which shows a cook at the Salai Banwa PRImary School in Kota village boiling water in a large aluminum container before adding milk from a one-litre tetra pack. In Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, a bucket of water was allegedly mixed in one litre of milk to feed around 81 students at a local school as part of the mid-day meal programme on...
More »'It is cheaper to ride motorbikes than take buses in Indian cities' -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Poor hit the most hit by an inaccessible public transport system, says India Exclusion Report 2018-19 Half of the poor in Indian cities walk or cycle down to work because of problems in the public transport system, suggests the India Exclusion Report 2018-19. The existing public transport system is expensive and has limited routes, says the annual report released by Delhi non-profit Centre for Equity Studies. As a result,...
More »For Haryana's farmers, MSP is only an illusion -Rajalakshmi Nirmal
-The Hindu Business Line Commission agents, who procure paddy, pay less than the MSP. There is no moisture testing or correct weighment. Is there a nexus all round? It is widely perceived that MSP operations in Haryana are quite effective and farmers there are a happy lot. But the reality is quite different. In the last paddy season, many farmers in Karnal’s Taraori, the largest grain mandi in Haryana, got only Rs.1,750/quintal...
More »12% of urban India relies on bottled water, 1 in 4 homes has a purifier -Harikishan Sharma
-The Indian Express As per the report, Delhi tops the list of 36 states and UTs in the use of electric water purifiers — 36.5 per cent of households in the capital rely on one to treat drinking water. An estimated 12.2 per cent of urban households rely on bottled water for their drinking water needs — up from 2.7 per cent 10 years ago. The finding is part of the...
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