-The Economic Times AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's capital - Gandhinagar - could well be India's tree capital. The latest figures of a census conducted by the state government show that 53.9% of its 5,700-hectare area is covered with trees. Effectively, there are 416 trees for every 100 people in the city. This is more than any other city in the country. The census was conducted by the social forestry department along with various municipal...
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What triggered the violence at Maruti’s Manesar factory?-Amrit Raj
-Live Mint Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s Manesar plant was witness to prolonged labour strife last year, but the violence unleashed on Wednesday that led to one person being killed caught its victims completely unawares. “Some of us jumped off the first floor to save our lives as we saw a mob of workers, hundreds of them, rushing towards us,” one of the injured Maruti officials told reporters at a hospital in Gurgaon...
More »Tax payers ignorance costs Rs 660 crore to government every year: TaxSpanner Report-Vidyalaxmi
-The Economic Times More than 94% of employees in India do not report income from other sources. This causes a loss of approximately Rs 660 crore to exchequer annually, says a report by TaxSpanner.com, a tax filing online portal. "More than 94 per cent of employees - liable to pay more than 10 per cent of their taxable income as tax - do not report income under the head, "Other Sources"," the...
More »Standing on the threshold of Food Justice in India
-Oxfam India Oxfam India launches food justice bulletin along with the Institute of development Studies (IDS), calls for assessing government's commitment to hunger Despite enormous growth in economic and political power, 46 per cent of Indian children are malnourished, and 1 in 3 of the world’s hungry live in India. Yet India stands on the threshold of potentially the largest step toward food justice the world has ever seen, as the National...
More »Rain shadow on rice, govt worry for southern trio
-The Telegraph The poor rainfall performance is likely to impact India’s rice yield this year, a senior agrometeorology scientist said today amid growing concerns over the rainfall deficit persisting 45 days into the monsoon season. Rainfall activity over the past week has reduced India’s land area under rain stress from 82 per cent on July 7 to 59 per cent today, but the cumulative rainfall is still 21 per cent below normal,...
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