-The Indian Express The pandemic may have limited our ability to connect with the external world, but for several Indian women, isolation isn’t unfamiliar or new When we tell our children and grandchildren about 2020, we will talk about a time when we shut ourselves in our homes to keep the world and the pandemic out. Our only contact with friends and relatives was via the telephone, and we only ventured out...
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Parliament proceedings -- Banks wrote off ₹1.15 lakh cr. in nine months of FY21: Anurag Thakur
-The Hindu “As per RBI data, scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) have written off loans of ₹2,36,265 crore, ₹2,34,170 crore and ₹1,15,038 crore during FY2018-19, FY2019-20 and the FIRst three-quarters of FY2020-21 respectively,” the Minister said. Banks have written off bad loans to the tune of ₹1.15 lakh crore in the FIRst three-quarters of the current fiscal, the Lok Sabha was informed on March 8. As per RBI guidelines and policy approved by bank...
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-The Hindu Nod in new five-year-plan for hydroprojects near border with India A draft of China’s new Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), which is set to be formally approved on March 11, has given the green light for the FIRst dams to be built on the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo river, as the Brahmaputra is known in Tibet, before it flows into India. The draft outline of the new Five-Year Plan (FYP) for 2025...
More »Health FIRst, fiscal prudence later -Abhishek Jain and Karthik Ganesan
-The Hindu The government can balance LPG subsidies and ensure clean fuel consumption in poorer households Subsidised LPG prices have increased by a massive 50% in this financial year alone, consistently capturing headlines. What would be the impact of this in sustaining the gains of the government’s flagship scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)? Since 2016, PMUY has provided LPG connections to 8 million poor households to reduce women’s drudgery and indoor...
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-TheWeek.in Women journalists lament they do not get adequate support when under attack Neha Dixit, an independent, award-winning journalist, was alone when she heard someone try to enter her FIRst-floor home in Delhi on January 25, 2021. She assumed that it was her filmmaker husband at the door, but still called out ‘Kaun hai?’ (Who is it?) a few times before opening the door. A whiff of air confirmed that someone had...
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