-PTI New Delhi: Easing the regulatory framework for foreign portfolio investors, SEBI has simplified KYC requirements for them and permitted them to carry out off-market transfer of securities. Besides, the regulator has broad-based the classification for foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) and simplified their registration process. The notification comes after the board of SEBI in August approved a proposal to simplify the regulatory norms for FPIs.   The new regulations have been redrafted based on...

Almost one in every five suicides in the world is committed by self-poisoning with pesticide, which mostly occur in rural, agricultural areas of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), states a new publication entitled 'Preventing Suicide: A resource for pesticide registrars and regulators'. Published jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the booklet says that the adoption of green revolution technology...

-TheWire.in For right and wrong reasons, the current dispensation celebrates the creation of any form of employment in India, regardless of quality. The state of California recently passed a landmark bill that has the potential to unleash a systemic change in the gig economy. On the back of a recent judgement by the California Supreme Court, Assembly Bill 5 has legislated that workers in the gig economy be classified as workers and...

-Livemint.com Thankfully, India is enjoying a demographic dividend that gives it greater leeway for deficit-financing The dominant consensus on the slowdown in India is that we have a demand problem. Lack of aggregate demand is a phrase that goes back to John Maynard Keynes. He is a ghost who reappears from time to time, however much one tries to bury him. Regardless of whether you are a Keynes devotee or not, his...

-The Hindu The former RBI Governor says even if India became a $5 trillion economy by 2025, it would retain the same classification as its population would have touched 1.4 billion If the government wanted the economy to grow fast then it should act on savings and investment rates, said C. Rangarajan, former governor of Reserve Bank of India. He was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day international conference on contemporary practices...