-The Hindu Why is the scenario of rising prices and falling growth a cause for worry? Can the government or the Reserve Bank of India do anything? The story so far: The rise in retail price inflation to a nearly six-year high of 7.35% in December has led to increasing worries that the Indian economy may be headed towards stagflation. The current rise in retail inflation has been attributed mainly to the...
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Link sanitation, solid waste to agriculture, Niti Aayog advises states -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth Govt policy think tank asks chief SECretaries to extract nutrients from human excreta and use them in place of fertilsers Explore the possibility of extracting essential nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium and carbon from human excreta and replace fertilisers used in agriculture with them, the Niti Ayog has advised all states. Faecal sludge is a rich source of nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K), the three essential nutrients used...
More »Delhi Police chief gets powers to detain under NSA, cops say it's nothing new -Ananya Bhardwaj and Debayan Roy
-ThePrint.in Under NSA, a person need not be informed of charges for 10 days, can be detained without charge for up to 12 months and doesn’t get a lawyer. New Delhi: The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi late Friday passed an order conferring the Commissioner of Police with the power to detain under the draconian National SECurity Act (NSA) for a period of three months — between 19 January and 18 April. This...
More »More unemployed and self-employed people committed suicide than farmers in 2018, show NCRB data
-PTI Students and un-employed victims accounted for 7.6% (10,159) and 9.6% (12,936) of total suicides respectively. At least 35 unemployed and 36 self-employed people on an average ended their lives every day in 2018, with the two categories together accounting for 26,085 suicide deaths during the year, according to official data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Unemployed persons (12,936) were slightly behind those self-employed (13,149) who took their own lives,...
More »West Bengal to skip MHA meet on Census, NPR
-The Hindu Union Home Ministry calls States for meet on Census, NPR on January 17 The Union Home Ministry has convened a meeting on Friday to discuss the modalities for the 2020 Census and the National Population Register (NPR), officials said. Except West Bengal, the representatives of all other States have agreed to attend the meeting. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai will chair the meeting which will be attended by...
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