-PTI Washington: Basu said from 2003 to 2011, India was growing typically over 8 per cent per annum. The year of global crisis, 2008, it dropped briefly to 6.8 per cent, but over 8 per cent growth had become the new norm for India. The downturn in India’s growth is “very worrying”, World Bank’s former chief econoMISt Kaushik Basu said, underscoring that this is the “hefty price” the country had to pay...
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Tale of neglect -TK Rajalakkshmi
-Frontline.in The death of nearly 60 children in Gorakhpur because of the unavailability of oxygen can be directly attributed to the larger issue of drastic reduction in budgetary allocations for and the gross neglect of the public health system. THE death of almost 60 children, including infants, in the government-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur within a span of 48 hours raises several issues relating to the state...
More »Demonetisation may have hurt more than it helped -Amulya Ganguli
-IANS It will take time for the econoMISts to figure out whether the fall in the growth rate to 5.7 per cent is the result of the disruption caused by demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but most of the common people will see a connection between the two steps and a slowing down of the economy. For most of them, the GST seems right -- like the uniform civil...
More »It was the suddenness of demonetisation that added immensely to its costs, and nothing to its benefits -Shankar Raghuraman
-The Times of India blog Whatever its critics may say, there is one unambiguous achievement of the demonetisation drive. The Reserve Bank of India can surely now claim its rightful place in the Guinness or Limca books for the world record in time spent on a single count of currency notes. But what about the other benefits that the finance ministry claimed after RBI announced the results of this mahayajna of...
More »Major pvt. hospitals give handsome comMISsion to doctors & smaller hospitals for referrals: Cobrapost Expose
-Cobrapost Press Release Cobrapost unearths a thriving racket in which all major private hospitals hand out handsome comMISsion to doctors and smaller hospitals for referrals, at the expense of patients New Delhi: In a long investigation Operation White Coat spanning three mega-cities of Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore and covering 20 major private multi-specialty hospitals, Cobrapost has unearthed a racket of referrals in which these hospitals offer comMISsion ranging between 10 and 30...
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