-The Hindu Biodiversity integration into developmental plans is crucial for sustainable development In a ‘Mann Ki Baat’ broadcast recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his environmental concerns clear when he asked people to use Ganesha and Durga idols made of clay instead of plaster of Paris. His appeal is bound to stimulate our environmental consciousness and encourage the preservation of precious natural resources. We need to build on this appeal and follow...
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Cash Crunch: Slowdown, more pain ahead, warns Kaushik Basu -George Mathew & Priyanka Sahoo
-The Indian Express According to him, the currency shortage in the country is unlikely to ease any time in the near future. Mumbai: India’s former Chief Economic Advisor and former chief economist of the World Bank, Kaushik Basu has warned the government that the economy would take a turn for the worse next year besides greater suffering for people in the days ahead and of a new form of corruption building...
More »Sangh's arm adds job jolt -JP Yadav
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's labour arm today said that far more jobs had been lost than were created since the Narendra Modi government assumed office, adding that the demonetisation had cost many jobs too. "Under the new government, 1 lakh and 35 thousand job opportunities have been created so far but 20 lakh people have lost their jobs," Baij Nath Rai, president of the Bharatiya...
More »Utsa Patnaik, professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, interviewed by TK Rajalakshmi
-Frontline.in Interview with Utsa Patnaik, professor emerita of economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. By T.K. RAJALAKSHMI THE FALLOUT of the decision of the National Democratic Alliance government to demonetise currency of higher denominations has been felt across all sections of people. There are concerns that it will lead to an overall economic slowdown given the acute shortage of currency for industrial and agricultural operations. The impact on agriculture and those dependent on agriculture...
More »Modi govt yet to match UPA's economic record -Krishna Kant
-Business Standard GDP the only variable where the current government has kept pace with the previous one Mumbai: The Narendra Modi government needs to grow economy at twice the speed in its second term to catch up with the economic performance of the previous United Progressive Alliance-II (UPA-II) government and even faster if it wishes to trounce UPA-I’s record. For example, the manufacturing sector needs to grow at a compounded annual growth rate...
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