-Hindustan Times As prices of onions threaten to hit the Rs 100/kg mark, Delhi’s food and civil supplies minister Asim Ahmed Khan sought the Union agriculture ministry’s help to supplement the state’s efforts for ensuring supply of onions to contain retail prices in the market. Khan in a letter to the union minister Radha Mohan Singh wrote that unseasonal rains, which partially destroyed onion crops, led to shortage in wholesale markets in...
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Govt hikes onion minimum export price to $700/tonne to check prices
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: With onion prices continuing to be a worry for consumers, the Centre has raised the minimum export price (MEP) of the bulb to $700 per tonne. The MEP was last increased on June 26 this year to $425/tonne from $250/tonne. An official statement released by the Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry also said that the tender floated for onion imports will be opened on August 27....
More »Delhi govt launches poster campaign to educate kids about sexual abuse -Neelam Pandey
-Hindustan Times The Delhi Government has launched a series of three Hindi posters on child sexual abuse to spread awareness among school children at a time when such assaults are on the rise in the national Capital. The women and child development department put up around 5,000 copies of the posters — which highlight ‘good and bad touch’, ways to protect themselves against inappropriate behaviour and whom to contact in such a...
More »Understanding Issues Involved in Toilet Access for Women -Aarushie Sharma, Asmita Aasaavari, and Srishty Anand
-Economic and Political Weekly While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left out is the everyday practice and experience of going to dysfunctional toilets, particularly by women. By analysing the practices and problems associated with toilet use from a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to situate the issue in the everyday lives...
More »Onion prices threaten to cross Rs 100 a kg in Delhi as stockists make a killing -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Traders and stockists seem to be making a killing as onion prices have soared across the country in the past 2-3 weeks. The staple kitchen item was selling at around Rs 80 per kg in the market in Delhi, as a substantial jump in prices was reported from Delhi's wholesale mandis. Prices of pulses have also gone up considerably in the past three weeks. Now there...
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