-Hindustan Times The Wholesale Price Index (WPI), which acts as a proxy for producer prices, grew 14.23% in November, the highest since April 2012, the earliest period for which WPI Data is available under the current series. Retail inflation in India rose 4.91% in November compared with a year ago. The rise was far from unprecedented. And of the 119 months for which Data is available under the latest series of Consumer...
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Are jobs really being created? -Madan Sabnavis
-The Hindu Business Line While Data from CMIE and EPFO present a contrasting picture, jobs in the unorganised sector continue to be difficult to assess Employment Data in India have always been controversial as the concept per se is quite nebulous. While corporate Data on employment is foolproof as the headcount is known and revealed in annual reports, the same cannot be said about the non-corporate sector. Often, Data on employment exchanges...
More »Bill linking Aadhaar-Voter ID passed in Rajya Sabha, Opposition stages walkout
-The Tribune Opposition parties demand division of votes as they had moved a motion to send the Bill to a select committee, which was rejected by voice vote New Delhi: Parliament on Tuesday passed a Bill to link electoral roll Data with the Aadhaar ecosystem with Rajya Sabha passing it by voice vote amid a walkout by the Opposition. The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday,...
More »Ugly Sides of Data Protection Bill and Fallacies of JPC Report -Vikas Bhadauria
-Newsclick.in The Bill and the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations are riddled with many problems, and some of them are giving rise to serious concerns over enabling the State with surveillance power. The much-awaited Joint Parliamentary Committee’s report on the country's first comprehensive Data protection law has been tabled in the Parliament. After two years of intense deliberation and consultation, the report was finalised and adopted. The law, if passed, would regulate data...
More »Omicron: Why A Potential Surge Might Need Hybrid Testing -Nimmy Dominic, Pankaj Jindal, Ashish Sachdeva and Sarang Deo
-IndiaSpend.com Using a combination of RT-PCR tests with Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) helps detect more cases faster during a surge in cases, in remote areas with little access to RT-PCRs and in Covid-19 hotspots. Hyderabad, Mumbai and Mohali: To quickly detect Covid-19 positive cases and slow the virus' spread in case of a possible surge due to the Omicron variant, India must increase its use of Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT, which take...
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