-Livemint.com * India’s economic activity still appears weak compared to peers, shows the November edition of Mint’s Emerging Markets Tracker India slipped to the bottom of the heap among key emerging markets in November despite reporting better-than-expected GDP figures for the September quarter, the latest update to Mint’s emerging markets tracker shows. The ranking, the worst since June, indicates that India is finding it harder to regain lost ground compared to emerging market...
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Criminal leaders rise during mining booms -Tauseef Shahidi
-Livemint.com A new study from India links the rise in mineral prices to the electoral success of politicians with violent crime records The mining sector in India has earned a bad name for itself due to its frequent links with corruption and crime. Bribes are often given away for licences and approvals, and whistleblowers risk violence. A new study has found that a boom in the mining sector can even be linked...
More »Centre will not repeal farm laws, will send written proposal on December 9 -Priscilla Jebaraj and Vikas Vasudeva
-The Hindu The sixth round of talks with all farmer unions will not be held on December 9. Union Home Minister Amit Shah told a select group of farmers’ leaders late on Tuesday that the Centre would not repeal the three contentious farm sector laws on a day that saw nationwide road blockades and peaceful protests in support of the demand for a rollback of the legislations. Mr. Shah said the Centre will...
More »Human development index: India performs worse than G-20 developing countries -Rajiv Shah
-Counterview.net A new book, “Sustainable Development in India: A Comparison with the G-20”, authored by Dr Keshab Chandra Mandal, has regretted that though India’s GDP has doubled over the last one decade, its human development indicators are worse than not just developed countries of the Group of 20 countries but also developing countries who its members. The G-20 – consisting of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,...
More »Amid a judicial slide, a flicker of hope on rights -Ajit Prakash Shah
-The Hindu It is reassuring that there is a signal from the Supreme Court about thinking and speaking about personal liberty There can be no better way for a judge of the Supreme Court of India to mark his birthday by celebrating the glorious constitutional duty that has been entrusted to him and his peers as officers of the highest court in the land. Last week, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud did precisely this,...
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