-The Indian Express Reducing preventable disease should be a developmental priority. Government needs to invest in a healthier future. Indians are famous for our savings mentality. The 2014 Towers Watson Global Benefits Attitude Survey found that Indians had the second-highest savings rate, after the Chinese. We save for a variety of reasons, to create a safety net and to yield returns in future. While there is a time to save, there...
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India's wholesale inflation falls further to (-)2.4%
-IANS NEW DELHI: India's annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices continued in the negative territory in June, falling further to (-)2.4 per cent from (-)2.36 per cent for the month before, official data showed on Tuesday. The annual rate of inflation, as per the official wholesale price index, stood at 5.66 per cent in the corresponding month of the previous year, according to data released by the ministry of commerce...
More »Only a fourth of explorers filed mineral data in seven years -Deepak Patel
-Business Standard State governments granted 401 reconnaissance permits and 920 prospecting licences between November 2007 and December 2014 Only one-fourth of companies with reconnaissance permits or prospecting licences have submitted mineral exploration data to the government in the last seven years, according to the ministry of mines. State governments granted 401 reconnaissance permits and 920 prospecting licences between November 2007 and December 2014. Of these, 186 holders of reconnaissance permits and 151 prospecting...
More »Dairying turns buffer against stress from agri price fall -R Ramabhadran Pillai
-The Hindu Coffee, rubber farmers migrate to dairy sector ALAPPUZHA: Milk production in the State has been registering a notable increase in recent months. The rise is partly due to the adoption of dairying by a considerable number of coffee and rubber farmers disgusted with the fall in prices of the produce. The price fall in coffee has had a telling effect on the lives of coffee farmers in Wayanad who have turned...
More »Study: Food price spikes linked with rising malnutrition among Indian children
-Financial Express It focused on the effect of food prices on child nutrition in the Andhra Pradesh, one of India’s largest states, using data from the Young Lives project based at Oxford University An international study, conducted by researchers from the Public Health Foundation of India and the University of Oxford, with a team from Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says spikes in food prices during...
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