-Livemint.com In the Apr-Sep period, health insurance leaped ahead of motor insurance to lead the non-life insurance segment in India for the first time. For a business that thrives on medical uncertainty, the covid-19 pandemic has provided a shot in the arm for the health insurance industry in India. The prospect of hospitalisation due to covid-19, and high medical costs in PRIvate hospitals have driven more Indians to sign up for PRIvate...
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Farmers developing own soya, onion seeds worry companies -Radheshyam Jadhav
-The Hindu Business Line Early germination failure of soyabean seeds this July saw farmers join hands against seed companies; farmer organisations and political parties now seem to have thrown in their hats Pune: An increasing number of soybean and onion farmers deciding to develop seed plots, so that they don’t have to buy seeds from PRIvate seed companies, has the seed industry worried. Maharashtra agriculture department is encouraging farmers to develop their own...
More »Has personal loans seen a rebound ahead of the festive season? The answer is in the negative
Just before Dhanteras and Diwali this year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the November edition of its monthly bulletin. The latest RBI Monthly Bulletin says that the GDP has contracted by -8.6 percent in the second quarter of fiscal year 2020-21 (i.e. July-September, 2020) as compared to the gross domestic product (GDP) during the corresponding period last year. It may be noted that India’s GDP shrunk by -23.9...
More »Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Under the Scanner as Australian Senate to Probe Media Monopolies -Peoples Dispatch
-Newsclick.in/ Peoples Dispatch The senate inquiry announcement comes days after a petition by ex-PRIme minister Kevin Rudd to investigate Murdoch’s media monopoly in Australia garnered half a million signatures On Wednesday, November 11, the Australian Senate voted in favor of an inquiry into media monopolies in the country with the focus certain to be on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The move to hold an inquiry was proposed by Green Party senator Sarah...
More »Supreme Court’s Selective Approach Will Not Prevent the 'Path of Destruction' -Fahad Hasin
-TheWire.in The Supreme Court order on Arnab Goswami does nothing if the same concern is not extended in the case of hundreds of citizens who have been jailed under various politically motivated cases. The Supreme Court’s decision to grant interim bail to Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami has led to sharp reactions. Among people who identify themselves as liberals, there are three broad strands of thinking. First, there are those who feel that...
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