-Down to Earth Around 70% cyclones in the area from 1961-2020 were severe West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, within which the larger share of the Sundarbans is located, is impacted by cyclones the most frequently among Indian districts, found a recent study. The return period of cyclonic storms in the district was 1.67 years on a scale of 1.5 to 60 years, according to the analysis by India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune....
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Increasing MSMEs’ share in GDP to 40% by 2025 is a herculean task: AIMA
-Financial Express Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Former MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari in 2020 had set a target of increasing MSMEs’ share in exports to 60 per cent from 48 per cent and 5 crore additional jobs by 2025 apart from the jump in GDP share. Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Increasing MSMEs’ contribution to India’s gross domestic product (GDP) from nearly 30 per cent to 40 per cent by...
More »This tree lover donates 20 tonnes of sandalwood for the State’s Haritha Nidhi programme -B Satyanarayana Reddy
-The New Indian Express The tree lover has planted over one crore saplings and trees across the State, apart from distributing lakhs of saplings which he grows on his land. KHAMMAM: The Telangana government had permitted Daripalli Ramaiah to sell red sandalwood, but the environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee chose to donate 20 tonnes of the precious wood for the State’s Haritha Nidhi programme. The tree lover has planted over one crore saplings...
More »Poor Country With Affluent Elite, India Is Going Nowhere -Jayati Ghosh
- The India Cable/ TheWire.in India is now one of the most unequal countries for both income and wealth inequality — and has shown the most rapid increases in inequality. The Paris-based World Inequality Lab has become a major source of data on global inequality, based on careful aggregation of national data from a multitude of sources, of both income and wealth inequality, at national, regional and global levels. Their latest World...
More »Corruption Allegations Felled The UPA, But Modi’s Bribery-Fighting Lokpal Has Little To Do -Saurav Das
-Article-14.com One of the issues that brought Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power in 2014 was corruption, the antidote to which was to be a Lokpal, a public ombudsman. His government reluctantly set it up only five years later, after a Supreme Court order. In 2021, it received no more than 30 complaints, with critical posts of inquiry and prosecution chiefs vacant, a third of its budget unused and a former...
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