-Scroll.in / IndiaSpend.com Falling global demand, environmental regulations and contemporary cow politics have choked the leather economy of Uttar Pradesh's largest industrial city. Shadab Hussain, 23, dropped out of school at age 11 to work in a leather factory in Kanpur, the oldest and largest industrial city of India’s most populous state. To support his family, parents and four siblings, he worked eight-hour shifts every day for a monthly salary of Rs...
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Wholesale prices up 5.25% year-on-year in January -Kirtika Suneja
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: India's wholesale inflation saw a sharp rise in January owing to costlier Fuel and power even as food items continued to remain cheaper. Data released by commerce and industry ministry on Tuesday showed WPI inflation at 5.25% compared with 3.39% in December. Fuel and power inflation rose 18.14% in January from 8.65% in December. WPI inflation in manufactured products, which has a 64.97% weight in the index, increased...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Retail inflation cooled to five-year low in January on the back of sliding vegetable and food prices but the lurking price pressure may prompt the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to maintain a wait-and-watch policy on interest rate for now. Data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Monday showed inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose 3.2% in January, slower than...
More »Environment: A non-negotiable agenda -Ritwick Dutta
-Livemint.com The belief that every environmental problem has a technological solution undermines the need to protect ecology in its pristine condition The next 10 years are going to be the most challenging time for India’s environment. Our developmental model remains focused on using nature as a Fuel for its growth engine. Climate change is going to dominate environmental discourse at the national and international levels. Environmental debates will focus on climate change...
More »Cotton farmers counting the losses -Rutam Vora, KV Kurmanath and Vishwanath Kulkarni
-The Hindu Business Line Rising pest attacks are mounting pressure on cotton farmers even as prices play truant. Rajeshbhai Patel is not amused. The farmer in Kadi, northern Gujarat grew cotton on four bigha in this year’s kharif season, instead of 11 in 2016. He had reduced the acreage fearing increasing costs owing to pests attacks. But as cotton prices rule at unusually high levels in the ongoing harvest season, he...
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