While any loss in production following the dry spell will further hit the growth story, it will also push up food inflation. considerably. Once again the rain gods are playing truant. With 31 per cent shortfall in June, and with an expectation of only 70 per cent of the predicted 96 per cent rainfall for the July-August months, crucial for farming operations, kharif sowings have already been hit. In June alone,...
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CBI charges Ashok Chavan in Adarsh case-Rebecca Samervel & Rajshri Mehta
-The Times of India Seventeen months after it registered a FIR (first information report) in the Adarsh society scam, the CBI on Wednesday filed a chargesheet against 13 politicians, bureaucrats and retired military officers. The case involving the 31-storeyed tower in tony Colaba had led to a chief minister stepping down and seven high-profile personalities, including a former BMC chief and retired military officers, getting arrested. The charges filed were for criminal...
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-The Telegraph On a full-attendance day at a business process outsourcing centre in a village in Uttar Pradesh, 40 boys and girls work on computers, each of their desktops powered by rooftop solar panels that turn sunlight into electricity. Their workplace, a two-storey building, is the only structure in Sonari, a village of about 1,700 people and located about 50km from Lucknow on the road to Sitapur, where electricity is guaranteed nine...
More »Thermal power projects for 12th Plan have clearances: Central Electricity Authority
-PTI All the thermal power projects planned for the 12th Plan Period have requisite clearances and are at the advanced stages of construction, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has said. The capacity addition targets for 2012-17 do not include the projects - with a total capacity of 32,000 MW - that are stranded due to environmental issues, CEA added. The government is planning to add about 1,00,000 MW capacity by 2017. CEA, the techno-economic...
More »Farm suicides rise in maharashtra, State still leads the list-P Sainath
-The Hindu It accounted for well over a fifth of the total of 14,027 deaths in 2011 With a figure of at least 14,027 in 2011, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the total number of farm suicides since 1995 has touched 2,70, 940. The State of maharashtra shows a rise in numbers yet again, logging 3,337 against 3,141 farmers’ suicides the previous year (and 2,872 in 2009). This, despite...
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