Tomato prices are up through the roof. Retail prices are in the range of Rs 120-150 per kilogram in most mandis across India, making the household vegetable more expensive than petrol. Prices, which at the beginning of the year were in the range of Rs. 25 a kg, have increased by an order of between 500-600 percent. What does the data show? The National Horticultural Board is a body under the...
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Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy
New analysis shows that the extreme heat event in Uttar Pradesh in June this year was made at least two times more likely by human-caused climate change While northwestern parts of the country were reeling under the effects of Cyclone Biparjoy last week, a heatwave in Uttar Pradesh claimed the lives of many. Beginning from June 14, the rising temperatures in UP and nearby state Bihar has LED to hospitalisations of...
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Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Sales of scooters (including electric scooters) increased by a handsome 7 per cent in April 2023. Motorcycle sales grew modestly, by 2.9 per cent, while moped sales fell by 7 per cent in April 2023. Total two-wheeler sales in April 2023 were 4 per cent higher than in March 2023. Scooters LED the recovery in two-wheeler sales in 2022-23 with a 26 per cent jump. Its leader...
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KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
More »Two out of 10 infants face risk of food deprivation, says survey - G.S. Mudur
The Telegraph Nearly two among every 10 infants or toddlers in India face the risk of not receiving any food whatsoever for a full day, according to a study that has also reveaLED virtually no change in this measure of food deprivation since 2016. The study has found that the proportion of sampLED children between six months and 23 months who hadn’t eaten any food with substantial calorific content for at least...
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