-Hindustan Times It is also the first time in seven years that the share of salaries in sales revenue has come down. Hit by decelerating sales growth, Indian companies are tightening spending on their wage Bills. Private sector salaries recorded their worst growth in 10 years in fiscal year 2018-19. It was also the first time in seven years that the share of salaries in sales revenue came down. These results are...
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The BJP's opposition to the anti-lynching law in Rajasthan is telling
-The Telegraph Rajasthan is the second state after Manipur to pass an anti-lynching law Sometimes the hard core of values exposes itself through fruity layers of palliative rhetoric. That happened in the Rajasthan assembly when the government passed the Rajasthan protection from lynching bill, 2019 and the Rajasthan prohibition of interference with the freedom of matrimonial alliances in the name of honour and tradition bill, 2019. That the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Opposition...
More »Data doesn't support Amit Shah's claim that Article 370 deprived J&K of development -Rukmini S
-ThePrint.in Despite being ruled by BJP for the longest time, Hindi belt states lag far behind Jammu & Kashmir on education and various other indicators. There is no doubt that the Narendra Modi government’s decision to remove special rights for Jammu and Kashmir’s administration and to convert the state into two Union Territories is ideological and political. The removal of Articles 370 and 35A has been a lynchpin of the BJP’s political...
More »Mass appeal by Opposition on scrutiny of Bills in Rajya Sabha -Anita Joshua
-The Telegraph Only 2 short-duration discussions had been taken up this session instead of taking up at least 1 a week Seventeen political parties, which together have 103 members in the Rajya Sabha, submitted a letter to Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday, seeking his intervention to ensure the parliamentary scrutiny of Bills and adherence to rules that have been put in place to allow proper deliberation. “We urge you to ensure that...
More »Creating a fair digital payments market -Padmashree Gehl Sampath
-The Hindu Local firms will be at a disadvantage if big tech companies are given plum roles Since early last year, WhatsApp has busily piloted its payment system in India. WhatsApp Pay relies on the Indian government’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system to facilitate inter-bank transactions. Regulatory approval that would allow its nation-wide introduction is stuck on one point: the Indian government has asked WhatsApp to localise all data processing related to...
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