-The Business Standard Relative price changes across food items may impinge on long-term food security Rising food prices have been a significant driver of inflation in India over the past few years. In early 2008, there was a global surge in food prices, which certainly had an impact on the domestic SITuation. But, this subsided in a few months. Since then, the pressures seem to have been predominantly internal. If these trends...
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Forget job card, bring rooster for MGNREGA wages-Sheikh Saleem
-Rising Kashmir Srinagar: The criterion for laborers getting wages with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Bandipora villages is not a job card but a rooster. “Even if you have worked efficiently, you will be paid wages only if you have a desi rooster to gift the officials,” locals from various Bandipora villages said. Alleging corruption in the release of funds, people from Zaban Chuntimulla said authorities were not releasing...
More »MLC booked for threatening RTI activist
-Express News Service Lucknow: A complaint has been lodged against BSP MLC Arvind Kumar Tripathi alias Guddu Tripathi at Hussainganj police station on Saturday evening for allegedly issuing threats to RTI activist Shamim Ahmed. Police said Ahmed has alleged that he had collected the documents pertaining to the SITe map of Tripathi’s hotel in Hussainganj area through RTI Act. He alleged that the hotel was not built as per the map and...
More »Keeping polls in mind, state budgets offer sops to farmers
-The Business Standard State budgets are raining sops to pull farmers' votes With elections staring at them, several state governments are suddenly waking up to the demands of farmers and offering sops to the agriculture sector in their budgets, even as farmer organisations say the state and Central governments should do more. Karnataka, which pioneered the trend of having a separate agriculture budget--similar to the railway budget at the Centre — brought...
More »RIL gives half of documents sought by CAG
-PTI Reliance Industries has provided half of the documents sought by CAG and promised to give most of the remaining when the auditor returns to audit its spending on the flagging KG-D6 fields. RIL provided half of the documents to the team of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) during their three-week stay at the company's office at Mumbai beginning January 9 and wrote to it that the rest, barring a small...
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