-Livemint.com The agriculture sector is expected to grow higher than projected 2.1% growth rate in 2017-18 due to likely better output of Kharif and Rabi crop s, the ministry said New Delhi: Days after the Central Statistics Office (CSO) estimated India’s farm growth rate at a poor 2.1% in 2017-18, the agriculture ministry on Sunday said it expects the farm sector to grow at a much higher rate, based on better-than-expected production...
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Congress puts govt on mat for refusal to cut fuel tax as prices soar -Sanjay Dutta
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: At a time when fuel prices are shooting through the roof due to increasing global Oil prices, the Congress on Thursday put the government on the mat for not providing relief by passing on the benefit of money it has mopped up by raising excise duty on petrol and diesel. Raising the issue of increasing pump prices in Parliament, the leader of the Congress in the...
More »Civil society activists allege another hunger death in Jharkhand due to failure of aadhaar-based biometric authentication
-Press note from Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow, died of hunger and exhaustion on 25 December in Sonpurwa village of Majhiaon block of Garhwa district (Jharkhand). She lived with her son Ghura Vishwakarma, daughter-in-law Usha Devi and their three children in a dilapidated kutcha house. The family has a hand-to-mouth existence and is routinely unable to access adequate nutrition. Surviving the day on only a meal...
More »NITI Aayog working on policy to cut Oil bill by $100 billion
-PTI NEW DELHI: The government is working on a policy to bring down the annual Oil import bill by $100 billion by 2030 through extensive use of methanol in cooking gas and transportation fuel, union minister Nitin Gadkari told Lok Sabha on Thursday. The government was "shortly" going to implement a scheme under which 15 per cent methanol will be blended with petrol and which will reduce the cost of the fuel...
More »Nervous over rising crude, government ends monthly LPG price hike -Sanjay Dutta
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a clear indication of the nervousness over rising Oil prices evoking popular anger, the government has asked state-run fuel retailers to stop raising the price of subsidised cooking gas cylinders by Rs 4 a month. The order was issued in October, around the same time the government cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 2 per litre to stave off rising consumer anger...
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