-The Hindu Food inflation remained positiv, at 3.8 % compared to what it was in May 2014. Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation was -2.36 per cent in May, marking the seventh consecutive month in which it has been negative, compared to -2.65 per cent in April. Food inflation remained positive, at 3.8 per cent compared to what it was in May 2014. However, the consensus among analysts is that this will not...
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Narendra Modi’s Bharat challenge: Low production, dipping income -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Dealing with the farm distress, while simultaneously creating enough non-farm job opportunities, is going to be a tough task. Call it bad luck or otherwise, the Narendra Modi government’s first year in office hasn’t been a really great one for agriculture and rural incomes. To start with, rainfall was deficient in both the south-west (June-September) and the north-east (October-December) monsoon seasons by over 12 per cent and 33 per...
More »Public funds to push neoliberal agenda -CP Chandrasekhar
-Frontline.in The Modi government has apparently realised that the private sector is not up to the task of driving growth. It hopes to fund its neoliberal dream of India becoming the fastest-growing emerging market through a combination of off-Budget borrowing and drastic expenditure reduction in key social sectors. IT will soon be a year since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office at the Centre....
More »Gujarat among industrial growth laggards in FY12-Somesh Jha
-The Business Standard The state was the sixth-worst during the year, according to the Annual Survey of Industries data A set of government data released recently seems to puncture the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government's claim that the state's industrial performance has been robust. According to the data fron the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), the industrial growth rate for the state's organised sector slumped below one per cent in 2011-12. And, in fact,...
More »New drug policy forces many pharmacies to shut shop -Raji Reddy Kesireddy
-The Economic Times HYDERABAD: Numerous pharmacies - especially those operating on rented space - are shutting down across the country, hurt by a sharp decline in margins after the introduction of a new pricing policy for medicines and intense competition from bigger players. The new Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), which was notified on May 15, has made the prices of some 150 drugs fall steeply. Under this, companies and retailers are...
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