-PTI In Nov, retail inflation had jumped to a more than three-year high of 5.54 per cent on costlier food products Retail inflation rose to about five-and-half year high of 7.35 per cent in December 2019, surpassing the RBI's comfort level, mainly due to spiralling prices of vegetables as onions were selling costlier. The unexpected jump in inflation diminished the chances of the RBI cutting interest rate at its next monetary policy review...
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Retail inflation rose to 7.35% in December -- the highest since July 2014
-Scroll.in The figures breached the tolerance band of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee Retail inflation rose to 7.35% in December from 5.54% the month before, government data showed on Monday. The rate of inflation exceeded the tolerance band of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee, Bloomberg reported. At the current level, retail inflation is at its highest since July 2014. Inflation was pushed up by a rise in...
More »Crime records of 2018 show 98.4% of rapes in Kerala were by men who knew the victims
-TheNewsMinute.com Among the 1972 victims of sexual assault in Kerala in 2018, 1156 are minors, below the age of 18. The total number of crimes against women recorded in Kerala in 2018 is 10461, which is 496 less than the statistics in 2017 but 427 more than in 2016. The data, released by the National Crime Records Bureau, says that Kerala accords for 2.8 per cent of the total number of crimes...
More »The hollow relief of fewer farmer suicides
-Livemint.com New government data show India saw fewer cases of farmers taking their lives in 2018 than the year before. But this doesn’t mean rural distress is down. Much needs to be done It is tempting to relate the decline in the number of farmer suicides in 2018, as reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), to an abatement in rural distress. Such a temptation should, however, be tempered. There have...
More »Farmer suicide rate sees marginal decline in 2018, concerns remain -Sharan Poovanna & Shaswati Das
-Livemint.com * 10,349 farmers and agricultural labourers killed themselves in 2018 compared with 10,655 in the previous year * In 2015, the government published elaborate data on farmer suicides, including reasons for suicides BENGALURU/ NEW DELHI: A total of 10,349 farmers and agricultural labourers committed suicide in 2018, a marginal dip from the 10,655 cases in the year before, home ministry data showed. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on accidental deaths...
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