-The Hindu Surveys, including the recently leaked one on consumer expenditure, point to the economy’s dire state How fast has India grown lately? And, what are the yardsticks on which the country’s performance is being measured? These have remained contentious questions. Following the last decade’s boom, the economy was slowing after 2011-2012, but apparently turned around under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) regime. Until very recently, the government claimed the economic success...
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Rajasthan: Thousands of crop insurance claims denied as premium 'Refunded' -Shruti Jain
-TheWire.in The Agriculture Insurance Company of India returned farmers' premiums after one year, claiming that details had not been provided in "soft copy". The bank, however, has not credited the refund into farmers' accounts. Satlana (Jodhpur, Rajasthan): Thousands of farmers in the Satlana gram panchayat of Rajasthan’s Jodhpur, insured under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), have been denied insurance claims for two crop seasons &NDAsh; kharif 2016 and kharif 2017. The...
More »More than half of South Asian youth are not on track to have the education and skills necessary for employment in 2030
-Press release by UNICEF dated 30 October, 2019 KATHMANDU/NEW YORK/MUMBAI, 30 October 2019 &NDAsh; An estimated 54 per cent of South Asian youth leave school without the necessary skills to get a decent job in the next decade, according to data produced by the Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Education), the Education Commission, and UNICEF. According to the data, South Asia lags behind several other regions in preparing the next generation of...
More »UPPCL EPF investment scam: Addresses of 5 out of 14 brokerage firms found fake -Rohit K Singh
-Hindustan Times In a startling revelation, the addresses of five out of 14 investment brokerage firms &NDAsh; hired by UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) authorities for investment of employees’ provident fund &NDAsh; were found to be fake, said senior officials UP police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW). These 14 firms were hired by UPPCL authorities since March 2017 for investment of employees’ PF in Mumbai-based Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL), said an...
More »Ayodhya case verdict: Pre-Constitution question from Justice Ganguly -Meghdeep Bhattacharyya
-The Telegraph "As a student of the Constitution, it is a little difficult for me to accept it," he says Calcutta: Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, a retired Supreme Court judge, on Saturday said the Ayodhya judgment had created a doubt in his mind and that he was “very disturbed”. “Minorities have seen for generations that there was a masjid there. It was demolished. On top of that, a temple is being built, according...
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