-The Hindu The farmers were marching to delhi from Haridwar. delhi police on Tuesday fired water cannons and teargas shells at protesting farmers as they tried to break barricades put up to stop them at the delhi-Uttar Pradesh border. The delhi police had issued week-long prohibitory orders under section 144 on Monday, in anticipation of the Kisan Kranti Padyatra organised by the Bharatiya Kisan Union, arriving from Haridwar. The rally was expected to make...
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RBI data on Public Sector Banks: In four years, banks' write-off over seven times recovery -Anil Sasi
-The Indian Express Even as the government has been trying to shore up PSB books through equity capital infusion and other measures, stressed assets have registered a steady rise since 2011. New delhi: Between April 2014 and April 2018, the country’s 21 State-owned banks ended up writing off Rs 3,16,500 crore of loans even as they recovered Rs 44,900 crore written off on a cumulative basis — or less than one-seventh the...
More »10,000 Elderly People From Across India Come Together to Demand a Universal Pension -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Activists have argued that the purchasing power of the Rs 200 per month pension initiated in 2007 has already come down to Rs 93. New delhi: On Sunday, about 10,000 elderly people from across the country came together at a Pension Parishad protest organised at Jantar Mantar in the capital demand universal pension rights for the elderly, single women, persons with disabilities, and other poor and vulnerable workers of the unorganised...
More »Govt keeps job data close to its chest -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Two reports, published every 3 months of the Quarterly Employment Survey, not released by the Narendra Modi govt New delhi: Quarterly employment data considered reliable by even critics of the Narendra Modi government have not been released for this year so far, prompting concern the survey may be discontinued to hide potential warts that hold considerable significance in an election year. Two reports of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) are due...
More »Conservationist warns against dam permit in Arunachal
-The Telegraph He said the report based on which the decision was taken to give clearance to Demwe Lower project was “faulty” New delhi: A wildlife expert has appealed to the Union forest and environment ministry to roll back the clearance given to the Demwe Lower project, saying the report based on which the decision was taken, was “faulty”. A wildlife conservationist from Assam, Bimal Gogoi, who was an appellant in the National...
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