-The Hindu Business Line CAI asks officials to take "immediate steps to avoid distortions in cotton PRIces." Cotton trade body Cotton Association of India (CAI) has raised concerns about alleged speculative trades taking place on the Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) platform. Citing a sharply lower open interest (OI) in MCX Cotton Futures for the May 2022 contract, CAI has flagged serious distortions in cotton PRIces causing speculative movements and asked the Exchange to...
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India’s wheat ban knee-jerk reaction; could prove costly for farmers -Shagun
-Down to Earth The full impact of the wheat ban on farmers will be known only in the next few days, say experts India’s sudden decision to ban wheat exports with immediate effect citing food security may prove costly for its farmers. Many of them have held back their crop in the hopes of getting higher PRIces in the coming weeks. The impact of this decision is already being seen in wheat mandis...
More »Consumer PRIce inflation surges to near-8-year high at 7.79% in APRIl
-MoneyControl.com The CPI inflation PRInt for APRIl is above the consensus, with a Moneycontrol poll showing economists saw inflation rising to 7.5 percent The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) worst fears have been realised after data showed headline retail inflation surged to 7.79 percent in APRIl - the highest since May 2014. At 7.79 percent, the Consumer PRIce Index (CPI) inflation PRInt for APRIl is 84 basis points higher than the March number...
More »Bharat fuelling retail inflation -Shishir Sinha
-The Hindu Business Line Experts attribute it to higher cost of providing goods and services and more money under schemes Retail inflation based on Consumer PRIce Index (CPI) for rural areas is higher than urban areas for four successive months with West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Haryana recording double-digit rural retail inflation in APRIl. These are among the 17 States that witnessed higher retail inflation in rural areas. However, in Karnataka, Kerala,...
More »Govt Report Says PHCs Have Surplus Doctors – But That’s Not the Full Story -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * According to the Union health ministry’s new Rural Health Statistics report, for 2020-2021, PRImary health centres have a surplus of doctors. * This could be true – although there are doubts about whether the report included the number of doctors on transitory, ad hoc appointments as well. * The report fails to capture the qualitative aspects of doctors’ availability at PHCs, including a hidden problem motivated by the absence of sufficient...
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