A chronicle of joys, losses and hopefulness
The reviewer is associate professor of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata and is secretary, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata.
The reviewer is associate professor of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata and is secretary, Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata.
The week began with losses led by Infosys post its poor results and guidance for the upcoming year. Markets lost on three of the five trading sessions and gained on one. The fifth session which was the last day of the trading week remained flat.
The Centre has released Rs 462 crore to be given as compensation to as many as 9,03,336 farmers in Uttar Pradesh who faced crop losses during the natural calamities last year.
The arrested drug peddler- Sheikh Jamsed- had acquired assets from the proceeds of narcotics trade. Seized properties included a three storied building, residential plots.
As McCardle describes it, the fact that Facebook operates on Apple phones means that it has built a house on someone else’s land. Apple, which owns that land, now wants Facebook off its property. Facebook, it seems, has not yet found a solution to this conundrum. There are many people who will be cheering at Facebook’s loss and hoping that it is the harbinger of its declining power, even if it still boasts almost 2 billion users a day.
A portion of the farmers, Jagannath Chatterjee, deputy director of agriculture in Burdwan East, said: “Some couldn’t avail crop insurance for not having proper documents of their farmlands and some faced problems with the dearth of validation of their share croplands here. Still, with the present consequences, we insist absolute crop insurance for the entire cultivators.”
"For generations, we are carrying on the cultivation of shola, it fetches four times more profit than paddy cultivation. Shola is an aquatic herb, it grows well in controlled water-logging levels, but the Dankuni irrigation canal which has not been dredged has become a curse for all the shola cultivators"
“The wholesale market for the handloom saris have not picked up while the retail marketing is not enough to generate the required profit. 'Tantuja' is the major buyer of Dhaniakhali handloom saris but the sale from the Tantuja outlets is discouraging. A major stock of the handloom saris still lay with the different handloom cooperatives in Dhaniakhali. The revival chances of the handloom business even during the festive season is bleak”
The BSE Sensex fell over 132 points in opening trade on Tuesday as investors pared their bets, tracking sharp losses in global markets on worries about an intensifying trade conflict between the US and its trade partners.
The bank had reported a standalone profit of Rs 261.90 crore in the fourth quarter of 2016-17.
