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Indiaâs ethanol push making food costlier? (opens the original)
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Is ethanol driving up your food bill? India is using more crops to make ethanol. But those crops are also needed for food. When supply gets tight, who gets priority: food or fuel? When the prices of your groceries increase, would you blame it on your petrol tank? Seems like there is no connection, right? But right now, the price of your chicken, your eggs, your sugar, and even your morning tea or coffee is increasingly connected to what goes into your petrol tank. India is pushing hard to blend
Modi govtâs new UPI fee: Who benefits, who doesnât? (opens the original)
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From October 15, some UPI payments above Rs 2,000 will attract a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate, or MDR. But what does that actually mean for customers and merchants? We have all spent years training ourselves to ditch cash. But from October 15, some UPI payments will no longer be completely free. The government says the fee isn't for you or me; itâs for the merchant. And it wonât be on every transaction. The new Merchant Discount Rate, or MDR, will apply to merchant payments above Rs 2,000. So
What the RSS didnât tell its New York guests (opens the original)
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Mohan Bhagwat in NYC event: Interfaith leaders say they wouldnât have attended if they knew Bhagwat was the key speaker. We all saw the images from Madison Square Garden. Thousands of people. An aarti. A packed hall. And RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat at the centre of it all. On the surface, it looked like a big success for the RSS. But there was a problem. Some of the religious leaders invited to events around Bhagwatâs visit say they did not know what they were being invited to. And who
GDP numbers say India is thriving; is it? (opens the original)
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India is booming. But can we trust the numbers? From GDP growth and poverty to health, sanitation and forest cover, changing methodologies and questionable data may be overstating the state of progress in the country. Many people in our country have been lifted out of poverty. And our country is greener than ever. Cleaner than ever. And we are richer than ever. You turn on the news and hear that the economy is booming, yet your savings are shrinking. Youâre told poverty is disappearing, yet mi
What exactly is PM CARES hiding? (opens the original)
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What does PM CARES care for? Its latest accounts show thousands of crores in the fund and relatively little spending. But the bigger story is about scrutiny, disclosure, foreign donations & where the money ultimately goes. Noah saved for the Great Flood. Manu prepared for the deluge. Joseph stored grain for seven years of famine. And then there is our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. By the end of 2024â25, the PM CARES Fund had a closing balance of Rs 8,452 crore. During that financial year, it s
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