-National Herald Talking about farmers’ issues, P Sainath said, “It is not just an agrarian crisis, it is now a national crisis. The Modi govt has been engaged in fooling the nation. They are telling lies shamelessly” The founder editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), the former Rural Affairs editor of The Hindu and author of the much acclaimed book ‘Everybody loves a Good Drought’, P Sainath, has recorded rural...
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'Uneducated, unmarried women have less access to mobiles': study -Karishma Mehrotra
-The Indian Express The research shows that India’s mobile phone gender gap - 33 per cent - is among the highest in the world, surpassing several countries with comparable incomes, development levels, and mobile phone costs. New Delhi: Apart from economic constraints, social barriers like the level of education, marital status and the lack of empowerment prevent women’s access to mobile technology in India, suggests a study by the Harvard Kennedy School. The...
More »Does India's New Series GDP Data Overestimate Manufacturing Output?
-TheWire.in The new series GDP data has been mostly replaced with corporate financial data for estimating manufacturing value-added, resulting in manufacturing assuming a higher share in India’s GDP and growing at a faster rate compared to the older series. New Delhi: Does the new method by which India calculates GDP (gross domestic product) data overestimate manufacturing output? This apprehension has been flagged by a key member of the Reserve Bank of India’s...
More »Maneka Gandhi bypassed; nutrition norms cleared -Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu After PMO intervention, NITI Aayog approves guidelines New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has approved the supplementary nutrition guidelines, prepared by the Ministry for Women and Child development, bypassing Minister for Women and Child development Maneka Gandhi following intervention by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), according to a person familiar with the development. The PMO had stepped in to end a more than yearlong stand-off between Ms. Gandhi and the Ministry’s officials...
More »Total government liabilities rise to Rs 79.8 lakh crore in Q1: Finance Ministry report
-PTI NEW DELHI: Total liabilities of the government increased to Rs 79.8 lakh crore at end-June 2018 from Rs 77.98 lakh crore at end-March 2018, latest data on public debt showed Friday. Public debt accounted for 89.3 per cent of total outstanding liabilities at end-June 2018 with internal debt accounting for 83.0 per cent share. Nearly 24.9 per cent of the outstanding dated securities had a residual maturity of less than five years....
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