-Business Standard Pulses acreage in the current Kharif season is almost 40 per cent more than last year and is even more than the Average area covered in last five years The stupendous increase in sowing of pulses during the ongoing kharif season didn't escape Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s eye. During his Independence Day speech, the PM commended farmers for raising the area under pulses this season to almost 1.5 times more...
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Care work: the future of work -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line Even though technological changes imperil many jobs, care services are unlikely to be affected thanks to the significance of face-to-face human interaction involved in them Across the world there is much gloom and doom about the impact of technological changes on jobs, as automation and other innovations are seen to threaten not just blue-collar jobs but also many forms of office work. It is true that the way...
More »How to be a model State again -Jayan Jose Thomas
-The Hindu Kerala today is not generating enough jobs to meet the expectations of educated Keralites entering the labour market. Changing this is vital and doable Kerala’s development model is in focus yet again as the newly elected Left Democratic Front government is in the process of evolving a vision for the State’s economy. On the one hand, Kerala has made spectacular achievements in land reforms, education, and health since its formation. Amartya...
More »Veggies may soar further as peak production season ends: Report
-PTI Vegetable prices rose up to 100% in the April-July period due to low arrivals of the harvest in mandis, Assocham said In a "most worrying" sign for consumers, the prices of vegetables in retail markets are likely to shoot up further in coming months as the 'peak production season' came to an end, says a report. In the shorter horizon, there will be "more pressure on the market arrivals of vegetables as...
More »CAG differs with Oil Ministry on calculation of estimated LPG subsidy savings -Tito Das
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has found the estimated savings on account of Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG in 2015-16 to be lower than that of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, primarily because of the differences in assumption of key variables. In a report titled ‘Implementation of PAHAL (DBTL) Scheme’ tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the CAG found that the...
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