-Scroll.in The ‘Plastic Man of India’ has found a way to reuse plastic waste and to make durable roads. A 73-year-old retired chemistry professor from the Thiagarajar Engineering College in Madurai was on Thursday named as one of the 73 recipients of the Padma Shri, the government’s fourth highest civilian honour. Rajagopalan Vasudevan is known as the “Plastic Man of India” for devising an innovative way of disposing of plastic waste...
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Pranab Bardhan, professor of graduate school in the department of economics at the University of California (Berkeley), interviewed by Devadeep Purohit (The Telegraph)
-The Telegraph The Left in Bengal had often criticised him whenever he red-flagged excessive local tyranny, and spoke about the industrial decline in Bengal. The incumbent ruling party may make tall claims about changes in Bengal since the Trinamul government came to power but he has been candid enough to suggest that he hasn't seen much change either in industrial expansion or in investment in infrastructure. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has...
More »Diesel price at all-time high as crude oil surges in international markets -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com Diesel price touched Rs.61.74 a litre in Delhi, while petrol hit Rs.71.18 a litre, the highest since 1 August 2014 New Delhi: Diesel price rose to an all-time high on Monday as crude oil price continued to advance in global markets, impacting India’s oil import bill and inflation. Diesel price touched Rs61.74 a litre in Delhi, while petrol hit Rs71.18 a litre, the highest since 1 August 2014, according to information provided...
More »Can Budget 2018 Set a Road Map For a Truly 'Good and Simple Tax'? -Rajul Awasthi
-TheWire.in While the nitty-gritties of GST work are handled by the council, slippage in revenues are a result of poor design, which is why a road map for reforming the GST is needed. I don’t envy finance minister Arun Jaitley. The fiscal situation is looking rather grim, with the fiscal deficit target amount for the entire year having already been exceeded by 12 percentage points, with a full quarter of the fiscal...
More »Small firms flounder post demonetisation, on GST: RBI study
-The Indian Express The RBI which studied the results of 2,726 non-government and non-financial companies said the overall EBIDTA of these corporate showed a 0.2 per cent increase. However, net profit declined by 6.9 per cent even as sales improved by 7.2 per cent. Mumbai: Small companies are finding the going tough with sales and profits taking a big beating in the wake of demonetisation and implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST)....
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