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High food prices push retail inflation to 5-month high of 7.41% in Sept -Asit Ranjan Mishra

-Business Standard IIP shrinks 0.8% in Aug - a FIRst in 17 months In a double whammy for the Indian economy, the retail inflation rate shot up to a five-month high in September, while factory output contracted after a gap of 17 months in August. This could force the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to hike the repo rate yet again in December. Data released by the National Statistical Office showed that consumer...

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Why India Inc. is not taking a Hanuman leap -Pulapre Balakrishnan

-The Hindu The one lever that the government could have pulled as it watched private investment decline was to step up public investment In a meeting held with the country’s corporate leaders on September 15, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman drew attention to an important aspect of the economy today. She rightly flagged concerns about sluggish corporate investment, despite the government’s business-friendly stance, including a reduction in the corporate tax. The reduction, effected...

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Indians Account for 80% of Those Who Became Poor Globally in 2020 Due to COVID-19: World Bank -Vikram Mukka

-TheWire.in In its latest report 'Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting the Course', the World Bank flagged concerns over how the lack of official data on poverty from India affects the world in drawing up global poverty estimates. New Delhi: A study by the World Bank has concluded that nearly 80% of people who slipped into poverty in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic hailed from India. Out of 7 crore people...

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Technology eases path for the weary nomads in J&K -Peerzada Ashiq

-The Hindu The nomadic communities of J&K have been offered smart cards and free transport to aid their biannual migration For centuries, Jammu and Kashmir’s nomadic community, known as Gujjars and Bakerwals, have undertaken arduous journeys on foot as part of their seasonal migration to find better pastures for their livestock. They often lose cattle and, on occasion, family members to accidents and hardships along the way. However, technological solutions and transport...

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CNG, piped cooking gas prices hiked by Rs 3

-PTI/ The Telegraph This is the 14th increase in price since March 7 The prices of CNG and cooking gas piped to household kitchens in the national capital on Saturday hiked by Rs 3 each in step with rise in input natural gas prices. The Rs 3 per kg increase in CNG price is the FIRst hike in rates in over four months, while a Rs 3 per standard cubic metres increase in...

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