-Livemint.com The recent Chhath festival in Bihar saw a visible thinning of the workforce in Kerala, clearly the ground zero of India’s mass labour movement Eroor (Ernakulam): Oh, I miss Vicky!,” Ravi says, in Malayalam, as he rolls up his sleeves. He is walking quickly back to his house from a protest—that quintessential Kerala activity. Breathing in the pungent chemicals of Kochi’s industrial belt in Eroor as he walks, Ravi (who did...
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Bureaucracy biggest obstacle to nation's development: Pranab Mukherjee
-The Indian Express Pranab Mukherjee referred to the civil services as the one that find ways on how to put obstructions, how to find out excuses and not to move. Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that bureaucracy is the biggest hurdle in development and need to be rectified. Delivering the concluding part of his lecture series as a guest faculty for the “Public Policy for Inclusive Development of India” course...
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-The Hindu Business Line BIES for Sept 2018 points at more proportion of companies facing ‘much less than normal profits’ Ahmedabad: The manufacturing sector seems to be going through a troubled time as more companies have indicated a ‘much less than normal’ profit margin, according to a survey by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). The latest Business Inflation Expectations Survey (BIES) for the month of September 2018, revealed that 45 per...
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-Deccan Herald As a railway buff, I love the technology story of the bullet train. However, it is not appropriate for India, in the current configuration as negotiated by Prime Minister Narendra and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail line, for which they laid the foundation stone on September 14. The Shinkansen bullet trains were introduced in Japan in 1964 and traversed the 500-plus kilometre distance between Tokyo...
More »Farm sector, jobs to top agenda of PM Modi's Niti Aayog meet -Mahendra Singh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Agriculture and jobs will form the focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's discussions on Tuesday with top economists and experts from India and abroad at a time the government has been criticised for the country's 'jobless growth'. The theme of the Niti Aayog meeting is 'Economic policy: The road ahead', but the PM has asked the premier government thinktank to concentrate on two areas: agriculture and...
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