-India Spend India's transition to sustainable farming has to be calibrated and orchestrated well, drawing lessons from the successes of India's Green Revolution and the recent crisis in Sri Lanka, says sustainable farming expert P.S. Vijayshankar Bengaluru: The production-centric intensive agriculture brought about by India's Green Revolution in the 1960s, using high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and high levels of groundwater utilisation, helped India achieve food self-sufficiency by the 1970s, but has created a...
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Govt will work to further bring down inflation: Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha
-PTI/ The Telegraph Experts say a high base of last year and some easing in food PRIces also worked in favour of the November 2022 wholesale PRIce index The wholesale PRIce-based inflation fell to a 21-month low of 5.85 per cent in November as PRIces of food, fuel and manufactured items softened. The WPI (wholesale PRIce index) based inflation has been on a declining trend since May and came down to single digit...
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-Moneycontrol.com The drop in wholesale inflation comes two days after statistics ministry data showed the more Consumer PRIce Index (CPI) inflation fell far more than expected to 5.88 percent in November India's wholesale inflation fell to a 21-month low of 5.85 percent in November, according to data released by the commerce ministry on December 14. At 5.85 percent, the latest Wholesale PRIce Index (WPI) inflation figure is a huge 470 basis points lower...
More »India’s Foreign Trade during the Ukraine War -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-Networkideas.org The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war sparked rapid and dramatic increases in some global trade PRIces, particularly for fuel products, wheat and fertilizer for which Russia and Ukraine are major exporters. It is now clear that these PRIce changes were not due to actual changes in total supply, which remained largely unchanged (although source locations and trade routes shifted). Instead, market expectations amplified by media hype, financial...
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-PTI/ The Telegraph * As per the data recorded in UDISE+, the enrolment in government schools was 13.09 crore during 2019-20. It rose to 13.49 crore in 2020-21 and to 14.32 crore in 2021-22 * The Central Government through the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha, provides assistance to the States and UTs for the deployment of additional teachers to maintain approPRIate Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) as per the prescribed norms for various...
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