-PTI WPI inflation at 2.48% in February is the lowest in seven months. The previous low was recorded in July at 1.88% Inflation based on wholesale prices eased to a seven-month low of 2.48% in February on cheaper food articles, including vegetables. On the basis of the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), inflation was at 2.84% in January, and 5.51% in February 2017. WPI inflation at 2.48% in February is the lowest in seven months....
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India processes 24 per cent of solid waste generated: Govt data
-PTI NEW DELHI: Nearly 24 per cent of the solid waste generated in the country was being processed as on January 31, according to Data presented by the government in Parliament. Out of over 1.43 lakh tonnes per day (tpd) of solid waste generated across the country, only about 33,800 tpd (or 23.73 per cent) was being processed as on the last day of January, the housing and urban affairs ministry data...
More »Passport plea behind Aadhaar extension -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Tuesday's Supreme Court order extending the Aadhaar-linking deadline indefinitely came after activist-lawyer Vrinda Grover had rushed in and challenged the authorities' decision to cancel her passport for not possessing an Aadhaar card. The five-judge bench was in the middle of a scheduled hearing of public interest petitions against Aadhaar's constitutionality. Grover said through senior advocate Arvind Datar that she had gone to the passport authorities here for the issuance...
More »New metric for jobs growth to include informal economy -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint.com The govt will count jobs created in establishments deploying less than 10 people, which essentially means that shops run by one owner and one employee too will be counted as employment generation New Delhi: Expanding the scope of job creation in the country, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has now decided to start counting jobs created in the non-farm informal sector. The government has asked labour bureau under the Union labour...
More »NCRB to collate Data on online child sexual abuse -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu New Delhi: In a first, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has started collating Data on online child sexual abuse in the country. Till now no repository of such crimes was available at the national level. The move comes after a parliamentary standing committee on home affairs pulled up officials for not reporting the cases. The panel, headed by senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, said in its report that they...
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