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Latest Christian Aid report identifies top 10 climate disasters of 2022

-Press released by Christian Aid dated 27 December, 2022 * Study identifies the year’s 10 costliest extreme events influenced by the climate crisis - each caused more than $3 billion in damage. * Report also examines 10 other extreme events that caused massive human and environmental damage, mostly in the poorest countries. * The floods that submerged parts of Pakistan in June displaced 7m people and caused more than $30 billion in estimated...

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Credit growth spurs public lenders’ balance sheets to 10-year high in first half of FY23: RBI report

-The Hindu ‘Commercial banks may have to raise deposit rates more to meet a surge in credit demand; while banks have swiftly transmitted increases to lending rates, deposit rates have been laggards for most’ Under the backdrop of a highly uncertain global environment caused by globalisation of inflation, energy and food shortages, and synchronised tightening of monetary policy worldwide, the Indian economy was exhibiting signs of a gradual strengthening of the growth...

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Centre cuts windfall tax on domestic crude oil by 65%

-PTI/ The Telegraph    The levy on crude down to Rs 1,700 per tonne from Rs 4,900, as per order coming into effect Friday New Delhi: The government has slashed the windfall profit tax levied on domestically-produced crude oil as well as on export of diesel and ATF following a drop in global oil prices, according to an official order. The levy on crude oil produced by companies such as Oil and Natural...

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Govt will work to further bring down inflation: Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha

-PTI/ The Telegraph Experts say a high base of last year and some easing in food prices also worked in favour of the November 2022 wholesale price index The wholesale price-based inflation fell to a 21-month low of 5.85 per cent in November as prices of food, Fuel and manufactured items softened. The WPI (wholesale price index) based inflation has been on a declining trend since May and came down to single digit...

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India’s Foreign Trade during the Ukraine War -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

-Networkideas.org The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war sparked rapid and dramatic increases in some global trade prices, particularly for Fuel products, wheat and fertilizer for which Russia and Ukraine are major exporters. It is now clear that these price changes were not due to actual changes in total supply, which remained largely unchanged (although source locations and trade routes shifted). Instead, market expectations amplified by media hype, financial...

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