-The Telegraph Over 1.5 lakh farm and industrial workers walked together in Delhi on September 5, not because no one thought of it sooner, but because the conditions have now been created to prompt it On September 5 an event of great significance occurred in the capital: more than 1.5 lakh workers, peasants and agricultural labourers staged a rally on Parliament Street. The capital has certainly seen much bigger rallies in the...
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RBI data on Public Sector Banks: In four years, banks' write-off over seven times recovery -Anil Sasi
-The Indian Express Even as the government has been trying to shore up PSB books through equity capital infusion and other measures, stressed assets have registered a steady rise since 2011. New Delhi: Between April 2014 and April 2018, the country’s 21 State-owned banks ended up writing off Rs 3,16,500 crore of loans even as they recovered Rs 44,900 crore written off on a cumulative basis — or less than one-seventh the...
More »Being highly educated doesn't guarantee you jobs in India anymore -Priyamvada Grover
-ThePrint.in Study by Azim Premji University finds that graduates currently make up over one-third of India’s unemployed population. New Delhi: Graduates and Postgraduates are the least likely to find jobs in the country as compared to those without any degrees, according to a study released by the Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment. The study, which states that unemployment among young and highly educated Indians is the highest in 20 years, has...
More »New CEA to be appointed only after poll, says official
-The Hindu Government satisfied with advisory role fulfilled by others The government is unlikely to fill the Post of the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) until after the general elections in 2019, according to a senior official in the Finance Ministry. The government has received only a few applications for the Post in the three months since it advertised the vacancy, the official added. Not many applicants “We issued the advertisement for the Post of CEA...
More »What does the recent SC judgment on Aadhaar mean for people in Nandurbar? -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-The Indian Express Much before the Supreme Court started hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar and much before the unique identity number roiled a nation over concerns of privacy, Nandurbar had made peace with the 12-digit identification number. Since the launch of the unique ID in this Maharashtra district, the 12-digit identity has been inextricably tied to people’s lives — from a mother without Aadhaar who was...
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