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Chana spot market crashed in the last few days due to weak market sentiments caused by the imposition of stock holding limit on Chana. Simil...

Over the past few days, sugar prices shot up on fall in production and ever increasing demand. Nearing festivals and wedding season has give...

Distressed at not getting an adequate price for his produce, a debt-ridden sugarcane farmer in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide. In order to ...

Sachin Tendulkar, in a recent interview had suggested to split the 50 overs one day cricket into two innings of 25 overs each to make it mor...

Government data showed on Thursday that the annual rate of inflation for all commodities stayed negative for the eighth straight week, but p...

Roger Federer created history yesterday when he defeated Andy Roddick in a marathon five sets to surpass Pete Sampras’s total of 14 Grand Sl...

According to the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), sugar production in India this season (October 2008-September 2009) is expected to f...

I am writing this article because I want to share my experiences from my recent trip to my home state. Though, the trip was small yet, it ga...

Sugar prices have been continuously rising since past few months. It was predictable. Sugar experts all over the country had warned the gove...

The Income Tax Act of India says that under section 80C, an individual can reduce his taxable income by Rs.1 lakh by investing in certain in...

The salary slab for the year 2008-09 Upto Rs.1,50,000 is non taxable. For Women it is Rs.1,80,000 and for senior citizens it is Rs.2,25,000....

I feel that the approach by the Indian Government after the Mumbai massacre is just a ploy to silence the masses that are not happy by the g...

Pakistan is a failed state. No one needs to prove this. The fact that a joker rules it is enough to conclude that the future of Pakistan is ...

Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar has an article in The Times of India (19th October 2008) citing reasons why the government should avoid redu...

The recent rise in inflation figures to a record high had made government and the central bank to come out with several policies (fiscal and...

“Guru Gobind dono khade kaake lagoon paye, Balihari guru aapne ke, gobind diyo dikhaye” ...

Bihar has been known for floods. Every year the government has a daunting task of evacuating people from the flooded area. But, neither the ...

Jaideep Mishra has a very good article in The Economic Times dated 1st September 2008 on improving the water systems in India after the tur...

The problem with India developing with such a pace is that these developments are contained within the city. Poverty has been rising with a ...

Pollution, encroachments, traffic congestion, unplanned urbanization - that’s amchi Mumbai. Let me ask my readers a very simple question. Ca...