-Livemint.com According to the National Family Health Survey data, the average age at death for Dalit women was 39.5 years against 54.1 years for higher-caste women New Delhi: Dalit women in India die younger than upper caste women, face discrimination in accessing healthcare and lag behind on almost all health Indicators. While violence against Dalits may be the main form of discrimination visible to the outside world, there are many other ways in...
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India's GDP grows 7.7% in Q4, retains fastest growing economy tag
-PTI NEW DELHI: India's GDP grew at the fastest pace in seven quarters at 7.7 per cent in January-March, retaining the fastest growing major economy tag on robust performance by manufacturing and service sectors as well as good farm output. India's economic expansion at 7.7 per cent was significantly higher than China's 6.8 per cent in the January-March period. However, the Indian economy on yearly basis grew at a four-year low of 6.7...
More »At current rates, Bangladesh could top India's per capita income by 2020 -Krishna Kant
-Business Standard Also, over the past 3 years, GDP in dollar terms has grown 12.9%, more than twice our rate Mumbai: After trailing its big neighbour for four decades, Bangladesh has gone ahead of India in economic growth and on social development Indicators. In the three years ending 2016, Bangladesh’s gross domestic product (at current prices) in dollar terms grew at a compounded annual rate (CAGR) of 12.9 per cent, more than twice...
More »Telangana 2nd, AP 4th most corrupt states: Survey -U Sudhakar Reddy
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Telangana is the second most poor performing state in curbing corruption in availing public services, according to a CMS-India Corruption Study 2018. The report released on Friday revealed that Andhra Pradesh has been ranked at number four in the corruption perception index. Alok Srivastava of CMS India told TOI: “This is the 12th round of the study. We have used different sub Indicators to arrive at...
More »Balancing conflicting claims -C Rangarajan & DK Srivastava
-The Hindu The 15th Finance Commission has to take a call on the degree of equalisation that’s feasible In the context of the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the 15th Finance Commission (FFC), certain key aspects relate to (a) the mandate for using the 2011 population; (b) ‘whether revenue deficit grants’ be given at all; (c) the impact of the goods and services tax (GST) on the finances of the Centre and...
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