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Businessman With 3 Identities Fought 2019 Polls, Rakhi Sawant In Tow
Mukesh Kumar, the chairman and managing director of the listed firm Debock Industries Ltd, had three identities - real estate businessman, agriculture equipment dealer, and politician.
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Japan's Rice Crisis: Prices Soar, Supplies Dwindle And A Minister Resigns
Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the decades.
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'Factor In Inflation In Aid For Farmers, Like Salaries For MLAs And MPs': Veep
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday advocated Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in fertiliser subsidies for farmers based on the US pattern and demanded that inflation be factored in while providing financial assistance to agriculturists.
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Food Inflation Likely To Ease In Coming Months, Says Centre's Report
India's food inflation is likely to ease, while the growth outlook for the economy is "cautiously optimistic" for the coming months as the agricultural sector is likely to benefit from favourable monsoon conditions.
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Government Official Tied To Pole By Farmers In Bihar Over Inflated Price Of Fertiliser
The farmers allege that the advisor is working hand in glove with the fertiliser sellers to inflate the price.
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Centre Allows Duty-Free Import Of Crude Soyabean, Sunflower Oil
The government on Tuesday exempted customs duty and agriculture infrastructure development cess on 20 lakh metric tonnes yearly import of crude soyabean and sunflower oil, to ease domestic prices.
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Furniture A Necessity, Not A Luxury, Say Punjab Traders A Month Into GST
Taxes have nearly doubled for furniture and plywood manufacturers after the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax or GST. At 28 per cent, general furniture and plywood goods, earlier taxed between 12 per cent and 14 per cent, now fall in the highest tax bracket
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Market Darling India Has Issues As Inflation Hits Record Low
Some of the pessimism stems from the fact that is India is still recovering from a cash ban that interrupted employment for millions, forced farmers into fire sales of agricultural produce and bogged down the manufacturing sector.
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Farmers, Shopkeepers Clash In Madhya Pradesh Town
Six motorcycles were torched and two shops were damaged in Sardarpur town in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district after farmers clashed with shopkeepers, police said today. The farmers were protesting to demand 'fair prices' for agricultural produce, the police said.
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Succeeded in Bringing Down Inflation, Says PM Modi in Independence Day Speech
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his government has succeeded in bringing down inflation, and argued that there was a need to restructure agricultural practices.
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Rain Gods May Be Kinder to Us; 8-10 Per Cent Growth Rate Not Out of Sight: Finance Minister Jaitley
Pinning hopes on 'rain gods' to be kinder this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said a better monsoon would help check food inflation, including in pulses.
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Poor Monsoon Threatens First Drought in Five Years
Weak rainfall in India since the start last month of the monsoon season, crucial to the country's agricultural earnings, has raised concerns of a first drought in five years, although weather experts are hopeful rains will revive in the next week.
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El Nino Leads to Higher Food Inflation? Not Necessarily: Report
Forecasts of 2014 being an El Nino year have caused concerns around its impact on monsoons, thereby on agricultural output and thus food inflation. Although this theory sounds "logical" it is not necessarily going to follow the same pattern this year though, says a UBS research report.
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Onion, inflation and the election season
It was the humble onion that first put the spotlight on Sheila Dikshit way back in 1998, eventually moving her into the Delhi Chief Minister's chair, a post that she's now held for 15 years. It's the same onion that today, after hitting a century in the retail market in the capital, has made her anxious, driving her to the agriculture minister's do...
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Price rise politics: NCP rallies behind Pawar
A day after Sharad Pawar was attacked at the CWC meeting for spiraling food prices his party members have come out in support of him.
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Businessman With 3 Identities Fought 2019 Polls, Rakhi Sawant In Tow
Mukesh Kumar, the chairman and managing director of the listed firm Debock Industries Ltd, had three identities - real estate businessman, agriculture equipment dealer, and politician.
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Japan's Rice Crisis: Prices Soar, Supplies Dwindle And A Minister Resigns
Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the decades.
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'Factor In Inflation In Aid For Farmers, Like Salaries For MLAs And MPs': Veep
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday advocated Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in fertiliser subsidies for farmers based on the US pattern and demanded that inflation be factored in while providing financial assistance to agriculturists.
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Food Inflation Likely To Ease In Coming Months, Says Centre's Report
India's food inflation is likely to ease, while the growth outlook for the economy is "cautiously optimistic" for the coming months as the agricultural sector is likely to benefit from favourable monsoon conditions.
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Government Official Tied To Pole By Farmers In Bihar Over Inflated Price Of Fertiliser
The farmers allege that the advisor is working hand in glove with the fertiliser sellers to inflate the price.
-
Centre Allows Duty-Free Import Of Crude Soyabean, Sunflower Oil
The government on Tuesday exempted customs duty and agriculture infrastructure development cess on 20 lakh metric tonnes yearly import of crude soyabean and sunflower oil, to ease domestic prices.
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Furniture A Necessity, Not A Luxury, Say Punjab Traders A Month Into GST
Taxes have nearly doubled for furniture and plywood manufacturers after the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax or GST. At 28 per cent, general furniture and plywood goods, earlier taxed between 12 per cent and 14 per cent, now fall in the highest tax bracket
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Market Darling India Has Issues As Inflation Hits Record Low
Some of the pessimism stems from the fact that is India is still recovering from a cash ban that interrupted employment for millions, forced farmers into fire sales of agricultural produce and bogged down the manufacturing sector.
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Farmers, Shopkeepers Clash In Madhya Pradesh Town
Six motorcycles were torched and two shops were damaged in Sardarpur town in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district after farmers clashed with shopkeepers, police said today. The farmers were protesting to demand 'fair prices' for agricultural produce, the police said.
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Succeeded in Bringing Down Inflation, Says PM Modi in Independence Day Speech
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his government has succeeded in bringing down inflation, and argued that there was a need to restructure agricultural practices.
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Rain Gods May Be Kinder to Us; 8-10 Per Cent Growth Rate Not Out of Sight: Finance Minister Jaitley
Pinning hopes on 'rain gods' to be kinder this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said a better monsoon would help check food inflation, including in pulses.
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Poor Monsoon Threatens First Drought in Five Years
Weak rainfall in India since the start last month of the monsoon season, crucial to the country's agricultural earnings, has raised concerns of a first drought in five years, although weather experts are hopeful rains will revive in the next week.
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El Nino Leads to Higher Food Inflation? Not Necessarily: Report
Forecasts of 2014 being an El Nino year have caused concerns around its impact on monsoons, thereby on agricultural output and thus food inflation. Although this theory sounds "logical" it is not necessarily going to follow the same pattern this year though, says a UBS research report.
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Onion, inflation and the election season
It was the humble onion that first put the spotlight on Sheila Dikshit way back in 1998, eventually moving her into the Delhi Chief Minister's chair, a post that she's now held for 15 years. It's the same onion that today, after hitting a century in the retail market in the capital, has made her anxious, driving her to the agriculture minister's do...
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Price rise politics: NCP rallies behind Pawar
A day after Sharad Pawar was attacked at the CWC meeting for spiraling food prices his party members have come out in support of him.
