-The Indian Express In 2004, a former bank executive started his own bank. As it grew, courting corporates, lending aggressively and dodging referees, the bad loans grew too. Until one day, the bank went belly up. The Indian Express on how the story of Yes Bank and Rana Kapoor is of warning bells that went unheard. After providing services to Yes Bank for years, a vendor was keen to terminate the contract....
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 17163
Under-age enrolment at primary level in Tamil Nadu schools is over 10% -S Poorvaja
-The Hindu Data reveals that 11.64% of children enrolled in class I in the 2017-18 academic year were below the age of 6 Chennai: Nearly 11.64 % of children who enrolled in Class I in the 2017-2018 academic year in Tamil Nadu had enrolled before they turned 6. Six years is the minimum age mandated by the Right to Education (RTE) Act for class I. In the 2015 and 2016 academic years...
More »Can smart meters solve India’s electricity problem? -Rahul Tongia
-Hindustan Times They are a valuable tool for improved discoms. But they can’t solve what are fundamentally governance failures Much has changed in the electricity sector in the last few years. Electricity generation capacity is now surplus after years of deficits, and the price of solar power has fallen by 70%. But one thing that has barely changed is the performance of the electricity distribution companies (discoms), which continue to bleed money....
More »Climate crisis: Land is the key
-Hindustan Times Sync traditional knowledge and science to build resilience A recent report by the Union ministry of earth sciences (MOES), Observed Rainfall Variability and Changes, has found that seven Indian states — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland — have witnessed significant decreasing trends in annual rainfall in the last 30 years. Alarmingly, many other parts of the country have also seen an increase in...
More »Punjab truly land of milk, tops the chart -Sanjeev Singh Bariana
-The Tribune Highest per capita availability in country at 1,181 gm per day Chandigarh: The average milk yield in Punjab increased by 50.14 per cent between years 2012 and 2019, as per the figures of the livestock census 2019, Department of Animal Husbandry. The state now has the highest per capita milk availability in the country at 1,181 gm per day against the national average of 394 gm. The average milk yield per...
More »
