-The Business Standard The state was the sixth-worst during the year, according to the Annual Survey of Industries data A set of government data released recently seems to puncture the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government's claim that the state's industrial performance has been robust. According to the data fron the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), the industrial growth rate for the state's organised sector slumped below one per cent in 2011-12. And, in fact,...
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Stricter energy norms to push up AC, fridge prices by between Rs 3,500 and Rs 5,500-Writankar Mukherjee
-The Times of India KOLKATA: prices of air-conditioners and refrigerators will increase by between Rs 3,500 and Rs 5,500 as early as next week due to stricter energy rating norms that will push up production costs. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), the statutory energy conservation body under the power ministry, has tightened energy norms for air-conditioners by one level and those for refrigerators by two levels. This means, an existing five-star...
More »Don't link Aadhar with LPG: CPI-M
-IANS They added that the price hike would be an intolerable burden on the people The CPI-M Thursday denounced as "totally unjustified" the hike in prices of unsubsidized gas cylinders and asked the government not to link LPG supply with Aadhar cards. The Communist Party of India-Marxist said the price hike of Rs.220 on every unsubsidized liquefied petroleum gas cylinder by oil companies "will be an intolerable burden on people". "Since there is a...
More »From displacement to disappearance-Farah Naqvi
-The Hindu Camp after camp has been forced to disappear in Muzaffarnagar by the official authorities. The people displaced by the communal riots are now in small shanty settlements, 10 tents here, another 10 tents half a kilometre down the road On December 26, 2013, a large group of visitors entered the Loi relief camp in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh. Loi camp - a festering sea of displaced and despairing humanity, with...
More »Tax soft drinks more, save lakhs from diabetes -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: India could prevent an estimated 400,000 people from becoming patients of diabetes over the next decade if the government imposes a 20 per cent extra tax on sweetened beverages, a new study has suggested. The study by researchers at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, and academic institutions in the US and the UK has also indicated that such a tax on soft drinks might...
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