-The Telegraph Lucknow: Once bitten, the Yogi Adityanath administration acted fast when reports came of mass baby deaths at a hospital in Farrukhabad that had allegedly failed to administer oxygen to them, registering an FIR against two senior doctors. But the decision, on the basis of a probe by a "non-technical team" of civil servants, has prompted government doctors in the western district to strike work till Wednesday and threaten mass resignation...
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Taking stock of the Indian Economy: Consumption key to GDP growth
-Livemint.com Nine charts that sketch the anatomy of the slowdown in India’s economic growth and look ahead The Indian economy’s growth in the June quarter, 5.7%,&NBSp; has been worse than expected. Economists expect the current quarter to see much higher growth.&NBSp; But how significant is the slowdown? And how sharp will the recovery be? Here are nine charts that sketch the anatomy of the slowdown and look ahead: Chart 1 shows the depth...
More »Tale of neglect -TK Rajalakkshmi
-Frontline.in The death of nearly 60 children in Gorakhpur because of the unavailability of oxygen can be directly attributed to the larger issue of drastic reduction in budgetary allocations for and the gross neglect of the public health system. THE death of almost 60 children, including infants, in the government-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur within a span of 48 hours raises several issues relating to the state...
More »India Beats Pakistan To Be The 'Most Corrupt Country in Asia'
-Outlook India's neighbour, Pakistan, stands fourth in the list with 40 per cent bribery rate. If the statistics furnished by the Transparency International (TI), an anti-corruption global civil society organisation, are anything to go by, India has a long way ahead to fulfil one of the many objectives as told by the current Indian government - defeating the malice of corruption. A recent survey by the Transparency International states that India is the...
More »Raghuram Rajan breaks silence, says he wasn't on board for demonetisation -Rajesh Mahapatra
-Hindustan Times Raghuram Rajan makes the disclosure in his latest book -- I do what I do – which is a compilation of speeches he delivered on a wide range of issues as the RBI governor. Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has revealed that he did not favour demonetisation as he felt the short term economic costs associated with such a disruptive decision would outweigh any longer term benefits from it. Rajan...
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