-Livemint.com Top packaged consumer goods companies had also flagged slowing rural demand in the December quarter, citing inflationary pressures NEW DELHI: Top honchos of large fast moving consumer goods companies have flagged slowdown in rural demand in the March quarter, citing high inflation across products and commodities. Analysts Manoj Menon, Aniket Sethi, and Karan Bhuwania at brokerage ICICI Securities interviewed chief executive officers of companies such as Marico Ltd., Dabur India, and Tata...
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In Setback for India, WHO Disagrees With Govt Data on COVID Deaths -Banjot Kaur
-TheWire.in * Soon to be released WHO data has estimated that at least four-times as many people died during the COVID-19 pandemic as India has officially recorded. * According to a report published late last month, Indian government officials disputed the WHO’s claim and asked that the data release be delayed by 10 years. * The WHO has cited an obligation on its part to release the data, and told The Wire Science...
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-TheWire.in Methods of transitional justice, such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa after apartheid ended, can help address collective trauma and restore the psychological health of society. When the Khairlanji Massacre took place in 2006, I was in a boarding school, in class 8. When I heard about it, I asked a friend who, like me, belongs to the Scheduled Caste community, what exactly had happened. He told...
More »Death of the Cartoon -Paromita Sen
-The Telegraph It was biting commentary and the political bosses flinched at it, possibly hated it, but they endured it all right. What does the vanishing art of cartooning tell us about ourselves? Recently, the Museum of Cartoon Art was inaugurated at Savitribai Phule Pune University and an art gallery, also in Pune, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in memory of the legendary cartoonist R.K. Laxman. A little ironic given that political...
More »Selling lemons: Prices squeeze pockets as summer demand soars -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times A lemon inflation has taken hold, according to traders, because an unusually early summer and heatwaves have spiked demand. The crop this year was also smaller in some states, according to traders. The ‘market for lemons’ is hot. Prices of the essential summer citrus fruit have risen to unseen levels in the country, reaching up to ₹200 a kg in Rajkot on Saturday, leaving consumers angry and shocked. Traders said they...
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