-The Indian Express PS Krishnan was a rare bureaucrat who sought to reform government for marginalised PS Krishnan, who left us on November 10, was an extraordinary combination of the bureaucrat-reformer-activist. His was a life driven by single-minded devotion to the cause of the deprived and exploited. From his student days in his native Kerala and later, as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the Andhra Pradesh cadre —...
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Too much too often: Antibiotics in Indian crops can make them ineffective -Bhavya Khullar, Rajeshwari Sinha & Amit Khurana
-Down to Earth Antibiotics are indiscriminately used on food crops in several parts of the country, adding to the burden of antibiotic resistance Dharampal Singh just cannot stop admiring the cauliflowers glistening with beads of dew on his farm near the Yamuna banks in Delhi. Next to the plot, rows of radishes, spinach, fenugreek and bottle gourds lie shining in the morning sun. “These untainted vegetables fetch me a premium in the...
More »Why the picture on poverty is INComplete -Himanshu
-Livemint.com * Leaked official data shows poverty is rising, but we won’t get a confirmation till at least 2023. That’s unfortunate * Neither has the government released the report of an expert panel, nor provided any evidence about the nature and extent of divergence with other administrative data On Friday, the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (Mospi) announced that the data and reports of the 75th round of the National Statistical Office...
More »IB, RAW, ED and INCome Tax dept get SOS from Modi govt to help check soaring onion prices -Samyak Pandey
-ThePrint.in Officials from Intelligence Bureau, RAW, ED and I-T department have been mandated to work with agriculture and consumer affairs ministries to check onion prices. New Delhi: It’s not just the policymakers in the Narendra Modi government who are worried about soaring onion prices. Sleuths from the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing, Enforcement Directorate and the INCome Tax department are also on their heels, ThePrint has learnt. With the onion prices touching...
More »Rs.2,000 note is the preferred mode for unaccounted cash, says govt data -Shishir Sinha
-The Hindu Business Line Almost half the unaccounted cash seized this fiscal was in this denomination: Tax data New Delhi: The Rs.2,000 note seems to be the key tool for unaccounted INCome and assets. According to the latest INCome Tax data, little less than half of the unaccounted cash seized during this fiscal was in the denomination of the maximum value. It was more than 60 per cent during the last two fiscals. As...
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