-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government has decided to focus on over 500 autonomous bodies -from the University Grants Commission and Jawahar Lal Nehru University to Delhi Development Authority, Prasar Bharati and CSIR -and has asked Niti Aayog to review the performance of these entities that have mushroomed over the years with little oversight. Sources told TOI that Niti Aayog has been entrusted the task as the government looks to...
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Make default list public: SC
-The Telegraph/ PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and the RBI to disclose the names of borrowers who had each defaulted on public-sector bank loans of Rs 500 crore and above but the apex bank raised objections. The top court, after going through the defaulters' list submitted by the RBI in a sealed cover on March 29, said 57 people had defaulted on loans worth Rs 85,000 crore...
More »Kharif foodgrain harvest to break past records, show first advance estimates -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com India’s Kharif foodgrain production is estimated at 135 million tonnes in 2016-17, 9% higher than the year before New Delhi: Boosted by a normal monsoon, India’s rain-fed Kharif harvest will be the highest ever in history, show first advance estimates of crop production released by the agriculture ministry on Thursday. India’s Kharif foodgrain production is estimated at 135 million tonnes in 2016-17, 9% higher than the year before, when a crippling drought...
More »WPI inflation rises to 3.74% in August despite fall in food inflation -Indivjal Dhasmana
-Business Standard This was the fifth straight month of WPI inflation after continued deflation for over a year Unlike deceleration in its consumer price index (CPI) counterpart, the Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rose to 3.74 per cent in August from 3.55 per cent in July. However, even then it remained lower than retail price index-based inflation at 5.05 per cent that had declined from 6.07 per cent in July. This was the...
More »Inflation down, RBI rate cut hopes up -Asit Ranjan Mishra
-Livemint.com Retail inflation decelerated sharply to 5.05% in August, while industrial production contracted by 2.4% in July, the lowest in eight months New Delhi: India’s new macroeconomic numbers, the last before the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) meets for its 4 October review of monetary policy, pose a dilemma for its new governor Urjit Patel. Retail inflation decelerated sharply to 5.05% in August, while industrial production contracted by 2.4% in July, the lowest...
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