How are Indians faring during the lockdown?
These 15 districts, included Agra, Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Kanpur, Varanasi, Shamli, Meerut, Bareilly and Bulandshahr.
Since March 2020, WPI food inflation rate continued to fall but the CPI-food inflation rose, signaling a breakdown in supply chain from the mandis to the final household.
Hundreds of shoppers pack a wet market on a December weekday morning in the Chinese city of Wuhan, jostling to buy fresh vegetables and live fish, frogs and turtles. Almost a year since the city reported the world's first cases of COVID-19 in one of its handful of vast wet markets, and even as several other countries remain firmly in the grip of the subsequent pandemic, life in Wuhan has largely returned to normal.
'A lot of actors disappear after one big hit show, and I thought maybe it was time for me too.'
... and I learn more about economic trends than from books, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The report, which was submitted to the apex court on March 19, 2021, was made public on Monday. The three-member committee had also suggested many changes in the laws, including giving freedom to states to make Minimum Support Price (MSP) system legal.
Mother Dairy's retail model helps farmers but is under pressure from chains.
Wonder how you sanitise your groceries and deliveries and keep yourself and your family safe from the coronavirus?
Rediff reader Annapoorni shares a dessert recipe she learned from her mother Dr D Leela Devi.
The broader NSE Nifty struggled before ending well above the 10,500-mark.
Your child's nutrition is not a difficult deal if you can understand what they like and reasons behind it.
Satish Kumar Bhat, 47 from Delhi shared some suggestions that he feels may help fight coronavirus.
E-commerce companies are seeing an increase in demand for products such as fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, flour, rice, and lentils, and personal hygiene items like sanitisers and soaps and household cleaning products. Other products include instant noodles, baby food and Ayurvedic items. "There is even a huge spike in pet food," said a person.
Modi had clearly not come to terms with the limits to a prime minister's powers, any prime minister's powers however strong numbers he may have in Parliament, observes Virendra Kapoor.
'When a young Indian family who had recently moved into my locality found out that I live here, the lady volunteered to send food; she said that since she was going to cook for three people anyway, she had no problem cooking for me as well.' 'Thanks to her kindness, I get one home-cooked meal every day.'
'In a country like ours, people talk about wanting to be like Singapore, but when it comes to paying taxes, they start criticising.' 'The medicine is bitter, but the long term effect is good,' Senthil Natarajan, who runs Kovai Pazamudhir Nilayam, a one of its kind fruit and vegetable chain in Tamil Nadu, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih.
The real challenge, says Subir Roy, is to go for something affordable whose quality is just right.
Keya Sarkar outlines some of the challenges faced by a low-income father determined to educate his daughter.
The broader Nifty closed higher by 7.30 points
'Modi has said the poor are sleeping peacefully and the rich are buying sleeping pills.' 'The reality is the other way around.' 'Poor people are not able to sleep because of hunger.'
Rediff readers tell us how they are supporting the ban on plastic.
It plans to grow vegetables, fruits, flowers, medicinal and aromatic plants within the township.
Prem Murti Pandey bought 25 tonnes of onions, load them onto a truck and hit the road.
Popular Indian cookbook chef Ritu Dalmia now offers a selection of vegetable yummies. We bring you one more recipes from her latest cookbook. Today it's Wok-fried mushrooms rolled in pancakes!
Popular Indian cookbook chef Ritu Dalmia now offers a selection of vegetable yummies. We bring you one more recipes from her latest cookbook. Today it's Wok-fried mushrooms rolled in pancakes!
'I sighed, wondering what we'd eat if all farmers took jobs in the city and all their fields degenerated into land for sale,' notes Geetanjali Krishna.
After unseasonal rains, supply disruptions and pandemic-induced woes pushed retail inflation well over the Reserve Bank's comfort zone in 2020, the scenario is likely to stay that way at least in the short term as economic recovery slowly gains foothold. For most part of this year, pricier food items pushed the retail inflation, based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), higher in the range of 6.58-7.61 per cent, except for March when the reading was 5.91 per cent. Experts believe retail inflation is likely to average around 6.3 per cent this fiscal and mostly will remain sticky going forward owing to pick-up in demand across sectors.
Amusing spectacles unfold everyday with candidates attempting a variety of things from donning the role of a chef to washing clothes to woo voters, spicing up the campaign for the April 6 assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.
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'Recently we held a video conference with a host (about 100) of US companies that want to move their base from China to Uttar Pradesh.'
Yes Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack rising 5.80 per cent, followed by Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Bank and Tata Steel.
'This confrontation could have been avoided by a less arrogant administration that initially listened, used whatever negotiating skills they had and tried to be more credible,' observes Ramesh Menon.
Coke draws up Rs 11k-cr plan to sell frozen fruits, juices. Firm also considering launching frozen Fanta and Coke.
With mosques shut, workers and daily wage workers are left to fend for themselves, underscoring once again the magnitude of the crisis of unemployment and poverty triggered by the lockdown, which began on March 25 to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
'I will be happy if walls are built between India and China!' 'We are going to nooks and corners of the country to make ordinary people realise the need to buy Indian goods so that our workers get jobs.'
Fitness coach Rajvee Gandhi from Fitternity tells you how to fight off sadness, bloating, and lethargy in the dull weather.
Without strong storage facilities, bumper harvest has resulted in price crash
The overall volume at India's top four M&HCV makers - Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher, and Mahindra & Mahindra - fell 59.5 per cent to 31,067 units during the month.
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