-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Various ministries — led by health, agriculture and human resource development — have released close to Rs 44,000 crore over the past few years without getting utilization certificates or accounts of grants given to statutory bodies and organizations, resulting in spending without any evidence of gains flowing to the beneficiaries. The concern has been flagged by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in a new report...
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India working with WTO for permanent solution on food security
-PTI NEW DELHI: India is working with the WTO members to ensure an early permanent solution on the food security issue, parliament was informed today. "India is working with the WTO members to ensure a permanent solution at the earliest," Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. Ending months-long deadlock, the WTO in November last year acceded to India's demand to remove constraints on the...
More »SRCC project helps rural women in Haryana start dairy business -Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Manik Garg, second-year commerce student at Shri Ram College of Commerce, knows nearly as much about cattle and dairy-farming as he does about business. He knows, for instance, that there are three types of feed ("Green fodder, hay and high-nutrition feed"), that a high-yielding animal (delivering at least 15 litres of milk per day) costs Rs 60,000—70,000 and that some pedigreed bovines need air-conditioned rooms. He,...
More »India's wholesale inflation falls further to (-)2.4%
-IANS NEW DELHI: India's annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices continued in the negative territory in June, falling further to (-)2.4 per cent from (-)2.36 per cent for the month before, official data showed on Tuesday. The annual rate of inflation, as per the official wholesale price index, stood at 5.66 per cent in the corresponding month of the previous year, according to data released by the ministry of commerce...
More »CVC probes babus over 47 missing SEZ files -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission has started an investigation against senior officials of the Commerce ministry for 47 missing files of Special Economic Zones allocated to some of the country's top companies. The SEZ files in question went missing from the ministry after the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) began reviewing the concessional land allotment made to the companies in some of the country's favoured...
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