-The Times of India NEW DELHI: About 54% of school principals in Delhi have postgraduate degrees and over 77% have less than a decade of work experience, found government-authorized "5% sample checking of Delhi DISE (District Information System for Education) data" over 2012-2013. The study, which covers 258 of Delhi's schools (municipal, government, private-aided and unaided), has found over 1,100 vacant teaching posts in just the schools covered by the survey....
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Rs 1 lakh crore bad loans of corporates written off: RBI-Mayur Shetty
-The Times of India MUMBAI: data collected by Reserve Bank of India over a period of one year blows the lid off what goes as loan classification in banks. In a presentation at the annual bankers' conference, RBI deputy governor K C Chakrabarty showed how banks have sacrificed over Rs 1 lakh crore by writing off bad loans to corporates, which is much higher than Union finance minister P Chidambaram's farm...
More »A changing job market in rural India- Pramit Bhattacharya & Aishwarya Deshpande
-Live Mint NSSO data show that slower pace of jobs creation between 2004-05 and 2011-12 reflects a fall in distressed farm employment Tracing the pace of new jobs created in an economy, a key electoral issue, is a good indicator of inclusive and balanced growth. But in a developing country such as India, the nature of new employment is often as important as the total number of jobs created. The changes...
More »Questions about India’s drug industry-Narayan Lakshman
-The Hindu Unless a deeper, institutional change is ushered in to break the nexus between drug companies and the regulatory regime, Indians consuming drugs may be exposing themselves to serious risks Even before I walked into the Mayflower Hotel in the heart of Washington on a crisp autumn afternoon to meet Dinesh Thakur, whistle-blower and former director of India-based pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy, I had a hunch that this conversation would spark some...
More »India second on list of governments requesting Google data -Nandgopal Rajan
-The Indian Express The latest Google Transparency Report shows India is only second to the Unites states in requesting user data. While the Indian government had a total of 2,691 requests of which 64 per cent where fulfilled, the US had 10,918 requests of which 83 per cent where fulfilled. In an official blog post, Richard Salgado, Google's Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security wrote: "Since we began sharing these figures...
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