-The Hindu “We got into the service thinking that we can provide voice to people, but then we ended up with our own voice being taken away from us,” said the Kerala-born IAS officer THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan from the AGMUT cadre, who came into the limelight for his anonymous participation in the flood relief efforts in Kerala last year, has resigned from service. The officer, who has been serving as...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 7048
Abstain from speculations, give exact job loss count, Finance Ministry tells India Inc.
-The New Indian Express There were also reports that the auto sector has seen 3 lakh crore jobs being lost. NEW DELHI: TAKING notice of daily reports on job losses, the Union Finance Ministry has asked business chambers and industries to produce the exact number of job cuts to derive the correct picture of the economy. It has asked the industries to abstain from causing panic. “There are a number of reports that...
More »All the major announcements made by Nirmala Sitharaman to boost economic growth
-The Hindu Nirmala Sitharaman said that India’s GDP continues to grow at a faster pace than the global economy and any other major economy. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures on August 23 to prop up the slowing economy. Addressing a press conference, Ms. Sitharaman sought to dispel doubts over the economy and the government’s growth agenda. Announcing that the global GDP growth may be revised downwards from the...
More »A politically inconvenient data nugget -Puja Mehra
-The Hindu Data on demonetisation’s contribution to the deepening economic slowdown may have been suppressed Was a task force report that recommended a new law to replace the more than 50-year-old Income Tax Act, 1961 suppressed because it inadvertently provided factual evidence for the debilitating impact of demonetisation on the formal corporate sector? On September 1-2, 2017, at the Rajaswa Gyan Sangam (an annual conference of senior tax administrators), Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
More »Amartya Sen slams Modi govt over abrogation of Article 370, says I am not proud as an Indian
-National Herald ‘Classic colonial excuse’, said Amartya Sen about the govt explanation of its decision of security clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir as preventive measures to prevent backlash that might cost lives Slamming the Narendra Modi government over scrapping of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen said that it only emphasised majoritarian rule "as opposed to sustaining the rights of all human beings. I don't think ultimately...
More »
