-India Today The government of India claimed that all villages in the country have been electrified. New Delhi: Prime Minister Modi tweeted, "28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity." The Prime Minister specifically...
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In 5 years, 46% hike in base: Tax net widens as individuals fuel the surge -Aanchal Magazine & Anil Sasi
-The Indian Express While the total taxpayer base grew at an average rate of about 7.9 per cent a year, individual taxpayers recorded an average annual growth rate of 8.2 per cent in these five years, inching up from 94 per cent in AY 2011-12 to 94.9 per cent in AY 2016-17, according to official data. New Delhi: Even as the country’s total taxpayer base increased to 6.41 crore in assessment year...
More »Poo to power: Rural entrepreneurs power Centre's 'gobar-dhan' scheme -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India KARNAL (HARYANA): "Poo to Power" may sound awkward and impractical, but Aditya Aggarwal and his brother Amit have done it in Karnal, Haryana. Two industries, one producing wire nails and another tinner rivets, owned by the family run on 100% electricity produced from cattle dung they get from nearby 'gaushalas' or cow sheds. The cattle dung-based power plant started in 2014 and that too without government support....
More »Change policy or will stop all supplies to cities: Farmers -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Coinciding with the anniversary of India’s first War of Independence on May 10, 1857, farmers from across the country will submit signed representations to district magistrates across India, demanding that the Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairman take up two private members’ bills, one each for putting an end to farm indebtedness, and for guaranteeing remunerative minimum support prices for all agricultural products. Also...
More »India's cash crunch: Six steps that led to the currency shortage 16 months after demonetisation -M Rajshekhar, Mridula Chari, Abhishek Dey, Vinita Govindarajan & Arunabh Saikia
-Scroll.in Scroll.in reporters fanned out across the country to uncover the reasons for the crisis. India’s current cash crunch is a real enigma. To begin with, there is its sheer unprecedented nature. In all the years since Independence, India has never seen something like it. “We have heard of coin shortages but never a cash shortage,” said MS Sriram, visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore’s Centre for Public Policy. “I...
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