-The Tribune Farmers are determined to take it to a logical conclusion SOMETHING unusual happened last week. Farmers in Maharashtra organised an amazing ‘strike’. Last month farmers in a village of Ahmednagar decided that they would stop sending their produce — food grains, vegetables, etc. — to cities from June 1. Soon, the call was adopted by the farmers of the entire district. Before anyone could realise, this resolve had extended to...
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Half of all 95s in CBSE English in Delhi's private schools: Data -Ritika Chopra
-The Indian Express More than half of all Class XII students in the country who scored (exactly) 95 per cent in English (Core) this year are from private schools in the Delhi region, an analysis of the results by an engineer based in New York has found. While the jury is still out on whether the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) abandoned the practice of grade inflation this year, one number...
More »Are Abortions Really On The Decline In India? -Rukmini S
-HuffingtonPost.in The available numbers could be telling only part of the truth. An RTI query has revealed that for the first time in this decade, the number of abortions in Mumbai has fallen. But are abortions on the decline in the country as a whole? "Going by the data that we have from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the trend has show an increase in abortions," says Poonam Muttreja, Executive...
More »Amid protests, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu clarify on cattle law
-The Times of India NEW DELHI/ ONGOLE: Two senior Union ministers on Thursday sought to allay apprehensions over the new government order on cattle trade, emphasising that the Centre will not interfere with the food habits of people in the different regions of the country. While finance minister Arun Jaitley emphasised in Delhi that the Centre's order will not impact state laws on slaughter, information and broadcasting minister Venkaiah Naidu said in...
More »Note ban effect: GDP growth enters slow lane in Q4 at 6.1% -Ishan Bakshi & Indivjal Dhasmana
-Business Standard GVA growth at 2-year low of 5.6%; Farming only bright spot India’s economic growth fell to 6.1 per cent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016-17 (FY17), primarily because of demonetisation adversely affecting economic activity. This was at least a four-quarter low. The sectors worst affected were construction and financial services. Without indirect taxes, growth figures would be more dismal. Gross value added (GVA), the difference between gross domestic product...
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