-Down to Earth With LPG PRIces crossing the Rs 1,000-mark, the poor now have to make unfair choices about their basic standard of life Farm labourer Mahadesha from Karnataka, groundnut farmer R Chandrashekharreddy from Andhra Pradesh, homemaker Geeta from Haryana and slum dweller Naresh from Ghaziabad are facing the same dilemma. The cost of a liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder has crossed over Rs 1,000 on the back of regular PRIce revisions...
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It’s Time We Stop Blaming School Children for Their Supposed Weaknesses -Gopal Midha
-TheWire.in Meena was walking back from gym in her pink shorts when a gang of hoodlums on bikes passed lewd comments at her. She reached home and cried. Her parents listened to her hurt and then asked her to dress “more approPRIately”. Rahim scored poorly once again in math and the teacher remarked, “I know this is your best effort, why don’t you take Arts after tenth?” Later, in the staff room,...
More »Cabinet imposes curbs on atta exports -Subhash Narayan and Ravi Dutta Mishra
-Livemint.com To ensure food security of India’s 1.4 billion people, a decision was taken to prohibit export of wheat in May following rising demand for Indian wheat amid the Russia-Ukraine war. But, this caused a jump in export demand for wheat flour The Union cabinet on Thursday approved placing restrictions on wheat flour, or atta, exports to curb rising PRIces and ensure food security for the poor. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs...
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-The Telegraph Decision to further restrict the export was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by PM Narendra Modi New Delhi: The Modi government on Thursday further restricted the export of wheat flour to curb rising PRIces as shipments have increased over 200 per cent during the APRIl-July period compared with last year. The government in May had banned the export of wheat. The decision to...
More »The global threat to our food security -Himanshu
-Livemint.com We must raise procurement to prepare for a possible rise in inflation as global food supplies shrink Recent data on inflation suggests a softening of the trend of rising inflation in retail PRIces. Much of the inflation this year has been driven by rising food PRIces, particularly edible oil and more recently cereals, PRImarily wheat. This has followed the global trend in food PRIces, which softened last month, even though they...
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