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If the prices of food articles in October this year increased by an overall 18.19 per cent as per the government data, things look much worse this month with food and vegetables prices reaching an all-time high and sudden spurt of over 100 per cent in salt prices in several markets across northern, eastern and north-eastern India following reports of shortage of this indispensible cooking ingredient sending shivers among housewives, restaurants, dabbawallas, cooked food suppliers and, of course, gourmets. The common man’s disposable income to buy non-food items is constantly shrinking affecting demand for manufactured products.

New Delhi: India’s plan to raise a strike corps along its border with China in the north-eastern region has antagonised Beijing and this was conveyed to the Indian side during the recent visit of the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to that country.

New Delhi : Vietnam has offered five offshore oil and gas exploration blocks in South China Sea to the Indian public sector ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL). The OVL also gets Kossor block in Uzbekistan without bidding.

BHOPAL: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and the senior-most Minister in the Shivraj Singh government, Babulal Gaur, is into his tenth consecutive electoral battle from the Govindpura Assembly constituency in Bhopal. Defeat does not figure in the lexicon of the 84-year-old Gaur, who has, so far, fought nine elections and won all of them – and that too without a break. A record that could well be the envy of any politician.

The election season has brought to focus once again whether the political class wants cleaner elections. The answer is an emphatic no. It is because political parties need to wake up to the fact that people no longer have faith in them or even in the system. Vexed with non-governance, corruption, price rise and inflation people say they have had enough, and that is happening all across the country right now.

New Delhi: India and Vietnam signed as many as eight agreements including the one on new investments to be made by the Indian public sector ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in oil and gas blocks in Vietnam for exploration, development and production. Petro Vietnam is also invited to participate in open blocks in India and in joint ventures in third countries.

New Delhi: India is taking the initiative in encouraging the culture of business competition in emerging economies by hosting the 3rd BRICS International Competition Conference.

India’s economic ills emerge too daunting, from the latest OECD Economic Outlook, with persisting high inflation, fiscal balance under challenge, external vulnerabilities from dependence on volatile debt-creating flows to finance current deficit adding to pressure on the rupee, and supply constraints restraining growth.

The abrupt exit of Mr. Yogesh Agarwal as the Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) in the middle of this month has come at an inappropriate time when the legislative imprimatur for the PFRDA Act was given in Parliament just a couple of months ago.

KOLKATA: The two major political formations in Bangladesh are taking each other head on. One is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League led 14-party alliance. The other is former PM Begum Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 18-party alliance, which includes two rabidly communal parties – the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeL) and Hifazat-e-Islam (HeI).