-Hindustan Times The report warned that the progress towards a 2030 zero hunger target that was agreed upon by leaders across the words was “under threat”. New Delhi: India slipped to the 102 spot in the Global Hunger Index which features 117 countries, according to Concern Worldwide, an aid agency which compiles the report. India was the lowest ranked South Asian country in Global Hunger Index even behind Pakistan which was ranked 94th....
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Delhi traffic police to withdraw 1.5 lakh e-challans for overspeeding: Report
-IANS According to a Delhi traffic police officer, the Traffic Police had asked the PWD to change the signboard showing 60 km/hr as the speed limit, but they did not do it. Now the cameras along the Highway has been set with 70 km/hr as the maximum speed, the police said. Delhi Traffic Police have decided to withdraw about one and a half lakh challans issued mostly to those who were...
More »Income tax department releases data on crorepati taxpayers -Nikhil Agarwal
-Livemint.com * India's super-rich club of those earning above Rs.500 crore has only 3 individuals * Over 1.7 lakh people had filed income tax returns with zero income in 2017-18 NEW Delhi: If data from the income tax department's records is taken into account, India had more than 97,000 people earning a taxable income of over ?1 crore in the financial year 2017-18. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has now come out...
More »Curbing black money: Printing of Rs 2,000 notes stopped, says RTI reply -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express According to the central bank’s RTI reply, 3,542.991 million notes of Rs 2,000 were printed during the financial year 2016-17. NEW Delhi: Have you been wondering why the ATMs have been barely dispensing Rs 2,000 notes for last few months? That’s because the printing of the high-value note has been stopped, the Reserve Bank of India informed this newspaper in reply to an RTI query. The Bharatiya Reserve Bank...
More »Explainer: What Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer won the Economics Nobel for -Jahnavi Sen and Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in All three winners argue that using randomised control trials can lead to better public policy interventions. New Delhi: The 2019 Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to three economists who have focused on framing policies by first measuring the outcomes of alternative interventions on randomly chosen samples from a target population. Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer have all worked on using this method to argue that randomised control trials...
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