-Scroll.in Doctors say that this could discourage others from donating their organs. In 2009, Dr Ravi Wankhede, a pathologist and resident of Nagpur, donated one of his kidneys to a friend. Wankhede saved his friend’s life but his altruism might have cost him his health insurance. When Wankhede Turned 65 two years ago, his health insurance company told him that his policy could not be renewed because the company does not cover...

-The Indian Express India’s economy is not doing well. Only carefully crafted policy reforms can Turn it around The Indian government recently lowered its economic growth forecast for 2017-18 to 6.5 per cent, and there is reason to be concerned. That the economy would suffer a slowdown after demonetisation was inevitable, as all professional economists could see. But growth dropping to 5.7 per cent and 6.3 per cent in, respectively, the first...

-The Hindu Business Line Online registration of farmers, higher moisTure in the produce delay the procurement Mumbai: The targeted procurement of 4.46 lakh tonnes of Tur (redgram or pigeon pea) in Maharashtra is expected to commence on a full scale by February 1. The Nafed procurement process is delayed as farmers have been asked to first register online for selling their produce. Sources in the Nafed said that about one lakh farmers have...

-Business Standard The large informal sector is a consequence - not a cause - of the low level of development For decades, one of the central aims of economic policy in India has been to create conditions for workers to move from low- to high-income employment. This has usually implied a shift from the informal sector where productivity is low, to the formal sector where productivity is high. This process of “formalisation”...

  Budgetary allocation to a particular sector indicates how much priority the government assigns to that sector as compared to the rest. A preliminary analysis by the Inclusive Media for Change team indicates that the actual expendiTure (net of receipts and recoveries) by two of the country’s most important ministries, namely the Ministry of AgriculTure & Farmers Welfare (MoAFW) and the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) was less than 1 percent...