-Livemint.com This is the highest GDP growth that India has seen since the country started reporting quarterly GDP data for the quarter ended June 1996 The gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the period April to June 2021 came in at a record 20.1%. GDP is the measure of the economic size of a country during a particular period. This is the highest growth that India has seen since the country started reporting...
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Q1 GDP: Trade, hotel and transport segment clocks 34.3% growth in Q1 -Shreeja Singh
-Moneycontrol.com The sector entered the positive terrain after declining for four quarters in 2020-21. Trade, hotel, transport, communication and services related to broadcasting reported a growth in the first quarter of FY22 as per the data released by National Statistical Office (NSO). Trade, hotel, transport, communication & services related to broadcasting clocked a growth of 34.3 percent in the April-June quarter. Please click here to read more. Kindly click here to access the press note...
More »Kinnaur landslides: Will the fragile district survive misguided ‘green energy’ projects? -Dimple Behal
-Down to Earth blog The ecology of Himachal Pradesh’s hydropower hub is too fragile for such projects “Twenty-five years ago, people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much about climate change. Today, we have no excuses,” Desmond Tutu, South African theologian, had said. The recent landslides in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district brought back focus on how 40 per cent of the state is geologically ‘highly sensitive’, according to a report...
More »India Inc. not sanguine about growth
-The Hindu Heads of industry do not share the optimism of the government and RBI, shows CII poll of CEOs. Indian industry does not seem to share the government and the Reserve Bank of India’s optimism about this year’s growth prospects, according to a poll of CEOs conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Nearly two-thirds of CEOs of large corporates polled by CII at its national council meeting earlier this month...
More »Why is Madras High Court questioning the ‘one man, one vote’ principle for India’s Parliament? -Shoaib Daniyal
-Scroll.in The court's comments presage the delimitation of Parliamentary seats based on population due in 2026. Should every citizen’s vote possess equal weightage when it comes to having a voice in government? The answer in homogenous, unitary states – such as those found in Europe – is simple: yes. The question, however, becomes far more intractable when one is dealing with a large federation. And it becomes especially complicated if that federation is...
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