-Financial Express Two measures can do much to bring back price sentiment and liquidity in agricultural markets, just when farmers are set to harvest a bumper crop. The current economic slowdown began with Bharat. It has to also end with Bharat. According to the National Statistical Office’s GDP estimates for April-June 2019 released on Friday, India’s agriculture sector — which includes forestry and fishing — grew 2.04% year-on-year during the quarter....
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Growth of eight core sectors at 2.1% in July, down from 7.3% last year: Govt data
-The Indian Express The eight core sector industries - coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity - had expanded by 7.3 per cent in July last year. During April-July, the eight sectors grew by 3 per cent compared to 5.9 per cent in the same period the previous year. Growth of eight core industries slowed down to 2.1 per cent in July as against 7.3 per cent...
More »'Population Explosion': The myth that refuses to go -Sarojini Nadimpally
-TheWire.in Even more dangerously, demographically driven population regulation measures, ignore women's rights over their own bodies. The spectre of population control has emerged to haunt us yet again. The Prime Minister of India, in his Independence Day speech on the August 15, expressed concern about “population explosion creating various problems for the coming generations” and complemented those who “follow the policy of the small family” as contributing to the development of...
More »Public sector banks merger: Modi govt to announce big bang plan soon -Arup Roychoudhury & Somesh Jha
-Business Standard Finance ministry has called a meeting with chief executives of ten public sector banks, on Friday The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has readied its mega plan for merging multiple set of public sector banks (PSB) and is set to make an announcement anytime soon, according to multiple sources. The department of financial services in the finance ministry has called a meeting with chief executives of ten public sector banks, which...
More »Stress, apathetic attitude taking toll on policing: Study -Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa
-Hindustan Times More than one-third of police personnel would be willing to give up their profession if they were given a chance to join another job with the same salaries and perks, the survey found. A survey conducted across 21 Indian states by non-governmental organisations Common Cause and Lokniti – Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), has found police personnel to be under stress due to workload, poor work-life balance,...
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