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RBI says ban on Rs 1000, Rs 500 notes proposed hours before PM's speech -Aloke Tikku

-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recommended demonetisation of 500- and 1,000-rupee banknotes hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the surprise move in a televised address to the nation in the evening of November 8. The government and the RBI have kept the consultation process that LED to the decision to demonetise 86% of India’s cash in circulation a closely-guarded secret. Both, however, have insisted that the...

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This government's modus operandi is constant distraction -Pratap Bhanu Mehta

-The Indian Express It distracts our attention from vital questions of institutional health and economic governance. During the second half of UPA 2, the press, with some justification, created a frenzy of anxiety over India’s future, especially its economic future. After two and a half years of the Narendra Modi government, if the same standards of concern about India’s future were brought to bear on the present government, what would the heightened...

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Modi government cuts MSP of seven minor forest produce items -Nidhi Sharma

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The Modi government has slashed the minimum support price of seven of the 11 products covered under minor forest produce collected by tribals in remote forest areas. The decision comes three years after the previous Congress-LED UPA government fixed the MSP for these products for the first time. “The decision had to be taken because MSPs had been fixed on the higher side and needed to be rationalised....

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British Library to digitise 4,000 Bengali books

-PTI ‘This exciting project will make South Asia’s rich and vibrant printed heritage accessible to everyone’ A new British Library project will digitise 4,000 early printed Bengali books, amounting to more than 800,000 pages, as part of the U.K. India Year of Culture plans for 2017. The digitisation project is part of a wider “Two Centuries of Indian Print” project, an international partnership LED by the British Library with funding from the Newton...

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Sharp rise in premature kidney deaths -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Premature deaths from kidney failure rose in India by about 38 per cent over the past decade, doctors said in a research study released on Tuesday that attributes this trend primarily to untreated or poorly managed diabetes. The study, based on an analysis of deaths in over a million households across the country, has found that kidney failure increased to 2.9 per cent of the tracked deaths between...

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