-NDTV Only last spring, as the country was gearing up for elections, we were hearing about a growth RATe of 7 per cent, the highest in the world. Various new statistics were trotted out to suggest that the growth RATe since 2014 had been higher than that under the previous regime. Those of us who looked at other economic indicators such as the unemployment RATe and growth in tax revenue sensed...
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Lowering corpoRATe tax RATe is good but not enough -Renu Kohli
-The Telegraph While the corpoRATe tax cuts are a long-term positive, this does not dismiss the case for near-term consumption support The government relented on fiscal discipline to steeply reduce corpoRATe taxes on September 20; the lowest is now 17 per cent for new manufacturing units. The stock market soared, seeing earnings grow after successive downgrades for nearly nine years — about the same time as the investment shortfall that lower taxes...
More »Growth lessons India can take from new frontrunner Bangladesh -Jayanta Roy Chowdhury
-The New Indian Express What changed the terms over the last few years from when India was the toast for global business and Bangladesh was an also ran? NEW DELHI: India has not only lost its tag as the fastest growing economy, it is even lagging behind its former 'poor cousin’ Bangladesh, which grew by 8.1 per cent last financial year as against India’s 6.8 per cent. Similarly, while India’s growth forecast...
More »A gendered view of India's nutrition stRATegy -Phalasha Nagpal
-The Hindu Business Line The rise in female malnutrition can be countered by integRATing a women-focussed initiative with the National Nutrition Mission India is home to the largest proportion of malnourished children in the world, with widespread prevalence of stunting, wasting and people being underweight. That said, a more pertinent factor is that malnutrition is the most significant contributor of the under-five mortality in India. According to the United Nations, India has...
More »Odisha: Braille press gets machine to print HS books -Hrusikesh Mohanty
-The Times of India BERHAMPUR (Odisha): Visually impaired Plus II students can look forward to Braille text books, as well as literary works in Odia, from the next academic year. The Red Cross Braille Press here — the state’s only Braille press, which has been supplying text books to schools for the past 33 years — will be able to print text books for Plus II students thanks to the installation...
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