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India’s urban unemployment rate improves across genders, age groups to best-ever level: Survey -Abhishek Jha

-Hindustan Times The quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey also suggests that at least some of this improvement is because of a higher than usual engagement in poor quality jobs in the quarter ending June 2022 New Delhi: After recovering to pre-pandemic levels in the quarter ending March 2022, India’s urban unemployment rate improved across genders and age groups to its best-ever level in the quarter ending June 2022, according...

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Abhijit Sen, Leading Economist of Indian Agriculture, Passes Away

-TheWire.in Apart from teaching at JNU, he was a member of the Planning Commission from 2004-2014 and headed the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices, 1997-2000. New Delhi: Professor Abhijit Sen, a leading expert on the rural economy and a former member of the Planning Commission, died here on Monday night after a brief illness. He was 72 years old. In an academic career spanning over four decades, Sen taught economics at Sussex,...

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As PM’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ urges awareness, experts say malnutrition as much a food availability issue -Abantika Ghosh

-ThePrint.in Experts say governance issues and gaps in understanding the root of the problem thwart eradication efforts. Minor improvement in indicators, but India caught in malnutrition cycle. New Delhi: On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the Indian government’s nutritional programmes and how they have helped in reducing the problem of malnutrition. Yet, 47 years after the government instituted the Integrated Child Development Services  (ICDS) — one of India’s oldest flagships...

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Why don’t Indian fruit sellers make it big despite good profits? Imperfect competition, says study -Nikhil Rampal

-ThePrint.in Study by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee & other scholars from US, UK and Canada found that fresh produce vendors charge high mark-ups but fail to adopt competitive market practices. New Delhi: Anyone who has haggled with a thelewala or streetside vendor in India knows that they often apply big mark-ups on prices and make good margins. Yet, selling fruits and vegetables in India is generally associated with “peanuts” when it comes...

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Retired SC judges now entitled to domestic help, chauffeur & secy -Shruti Kakkar

-The New Indian Express Life after retirement has become more comfortable for Supreme Court judges as the Centre further amended the Supreme Court Judges Rules, 1959. NEW Delhi: Life after retirement has become more comfortable for Supreme Court judges as the Centre further amended the Supreme Court Judges Rules, 1959. According to the latest changes, retired Chief Justices of India will get lifetime domestic help, chauffer and secretarial assistant, besides round-the-clock security...

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