While the farmers are not getting remunerative prices for their produce, at the same time they are forced to pay high prices for items they consume.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
In fuel and power segment, inflation saw a sharp surge to a near double digit inflation at 9.99 per cent, against 4.37 per cent in July.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with his former challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to remain joint 3rd after the end of the eighth round of Candidates chess tournament, in Moscow, on Sunday.
The hot property market in China's largest city and commercial hub, Shanghai is witnessing a slump after years of speculation, high prices and oversupply, the state media reported on Thursday.
'Pakistan will leave no stone unturned to keep Kashmir on the edge and put the entire blame on the Government of India if there is any untoward incident,' says Brigadier Narender Kumar (retd).
The 22-year-old Australian breezed past the 15-times Grand Slam champion in about one hour and 20 minutes.
The alternative, saline implants, rupture too, but such failures are quickly recognised by women as their breasts deflate.
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Rupee ends flat after hitting 9-1/2 month low.
The Bank of Japan on Friday hiked interest rates from virtually zero (0.069 per cent) to 0.25 per cent.
The majority in the markets believe that a September lift-off is likely.
Brokers said a flurry of buying by investors in blue-chips mainly influenced the sentiment.
The next round of bad news could come from Europe, where banks in a number of economies such as Italy, Portugal and Greece are sitting on mountains of bad loans.
Debt returns are always negative for investors in India, unless they are willing to take huge risk
'Our first great challenge is to create 12 million new jobs each year, to make the demographic dividend an economic dividend.' 'We are nowhere near that,' points out Mohan Guruswamy.
Having seen the 'Universe Boss' boss around from Ahmedabad to Port-of-Spain, and from the Oval to St George's, over nearly two decades, fans came in their thousands to Southampton amid some trepidation and much anticipation to watch Christopher Henry Gayle strut his unique stuff against England fo
Former Pakistan pace spearhead Shoaib Akhtar has said that current skipper Misbah-ul Haq needs to adopt Imran Khan's frontline approach employed by the captain in 1992 if the 2015 squad wants to win this year's Cricket World Cup.
India's gross domestic product product (GDP) growth rate between 2011-12 and 2016-17 should be about 4.5 per cent instead of the official estimate of close to 7 per cent, he said in a research paper published at Harvard University. "The Indian policy automobile has been navigated with a faulty, possibly broken, speedometer," he says in the paper.
The Indian ace was beaten by the Chinese world No 33 in an hour and 35 minutes.
India's run-machine Virat Kohli and in-form Murali Vijay smashed big centuries in a massive 283-run stand to deflate Sri Lanka on the opening day of the third and final Test on Saturday.
Murali Vijay celebrated his return to the India side with a hundred, while Cheteshwar Pujara continued his golden run with another century as India dominated the second day of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Nagpur on Saturday.
With the green cover gone, the bald roads to Puri are now reigned by lorries laden with electric poles, ambulances, fire service vehicles and cranes, signalling the rebuilding effort is in the works.
Rural inflation running higher than urban: HSBC
A weaker rupee could aid corporate earnings through its positive impact on export intensive sectors such as information technology services, pharmaceuticals and commodity producers such as metal and mining, and oil and gas companies.
The all-rounder scored 109 not out as South Africa hung on for a draw with the West Indies in the first Test.
Former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has urged selectors to be patient with the rookies in Steven Smith's team as they battle to cement places in the wake of a string of retirements.
The NDA has called the dawn-to-dusk bandh to protest against the removal of D P Ojha from the post of director general of police.
'The CBI must become a creature of the Constitution,' argues T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Technically, the Indian economy is on road to recovery.
Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from Day 4:
Senior Pakistan batsman and the toast of the cricket community, Younis Khan, has said that he always took criticism constructively.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
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