-Newsclick.in The recovery team ‘created a scene’ in front of the farmer’s relatives at his house in a village in Bijnor hours before his niece’s wedding. Lucknow: A 43-year-old debt-ridden farmer committed suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Bijnor district on Friday after being allegedly humiliated by the loan recovery team of the village cooperative society. A resident of Hasanpur Jat village, under Haldaur Police Station, Revati Singh had taken a loan of about...
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Economist recounts boom-to-gloom experience of Argentina -Joyjit Ghosh
-The Telegraph Kaushik Basu credits country’s intellectual influx and links its downfall to the practice of hyper-nationalism by junta in 1930s Calcutta: The pursuit of hawkish nationalism is detrimental to the growth of a country’s economy, Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of international studies and professor of economics at Cornell University, said at Para in Purulia on Thursday. “We cannot be hyper-nationalistic…,” Basu said while delivering a lecture on “India’s economy and the...
More »Loans worth ₹37 trillion sanctioned to MSMEs in FY22, up 182% from FY20: Report
-Livemint.com From ₹37.7 lakh in FY20 to ₹72.4 lakh in FY21-22, the average ticket size of MSME loans increased by 92%, the data on MSME loans showed. Total loan sanctioned to MSMEs stood at ₹37.29 trillion in FY22, an increase of roughly 5% over FY21 and 182% over FY20, as per a report by CRIF High Mark, a credit bureau. From ₹37.7 lakh in FY20 to ₹72.4 lakh in FY21-22, the average ticket...
More »Urea prices go down by up to 45 per cent in global market due to fall in demand -Harvir Singh
-RuralVoice.in Urea prices, which had gone up to as high as nearly $1,000 per tonne, have come down to $550 per tonne. Besides, the price of ammonia, the raw material for urea, has also decreased from $1,100 per tonne to $850 per tonne. India had to buy urea at up to $980 per tonne due to the high prices. It seems the government may get some relief on the subsidy front that...
More »Hanging by a thread: Gujarat’s textile industry -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Textile traders and cotton farmers say they’re suffering unprecedented losses. For a State half whose population is linked to textiles, such a crisis could have far-reaching consequences. With the Assembly polls scheduled in Gujarat later this year, &NBSp;A.M. Jigeesh explores whether this financial adversity could have political repercussions Hours after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was launched at a midnight gala on June 30, 2017, a 38-year-old textile trader,...
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