-The Hindu ‘Healthcare as an optional public service’ would ensure the legal right to receive free, quality care in a public institution The lingering COVID-19 crisis is a good time to revive an issue that is, oddly, slow to come to life in India — universal health care (UHC). Meanwhile, UHC has become a well-accepted objective of public policy around the world. It has even been largely realised in many countries, not...
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Retail Inflation Shot Up to 6.95% in March: Government
-TheWire.in It is for the third straight month that the retail inflation remained above the Reserve Bank of India's comfort zone. New Delhi: Consumer price-based inflation jumped to 6.95% in March, mainly on account of costlier food items, according to government data released on Tuesday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was 6.07% in February. The inflation in the food basket was 7.68% in March, up from 5.85% in the preceding month. It is...
More »Central team finds excess stock of soyabean, mustard in 3 districts of MP -Prabhudatta Mishra
-The Hindu Business Line Seeks taking necessary action as very large hoardings had taken place The Centre has asked Madhya Pradesh government to “step in to take necessary action” under the Essential Commodities Act after its team found “very large hoardings” of soyabean and mustard seeds in Dewas, Shajapur and Guna districts in excess of the stock limit prescribed under the law. Stressing the need for effective enforcement of the EC Act by...
More »Sri Lanka says it will default on its entire $51-billion external debt
-Scroll.in It has come to a point that making debt payments is impossible, the country’s central bank governor said. Crisis-hit Sri Lanka on Tuesday said it would default on its entire external debt worth $51 billion (over Rs 3.88 lakh crore) till it receives a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, AFP reported. A country’s external debt pertains to the money borrowed by it from foreign lenders through commercial banks, governments, or international...
More »Chief economic adviser flags US rate hikes, oil prices as headwinds for Indian economy -Shubham Batra
-ThePrint.in V. Anantha Nageswaran says he is surprised by Fed's hawkishness in hiking rates. With US inflation hitting 4-decade high in February, Fed raised rates in March and plans more hikes. New Delhi: Expectations of the United States Federal Reserve hiking rates aggressively in 2022-23 to contain inflation, and volatility in global crude oil prices as result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are two strong headwinds confronting the Indian economy in...
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