-NDTV The Modi government is finally getting some flak, as it should, for its confused economic policies, epitomised by the demonetisation blunder last year. Despite relatively favourable circumstances (including good monsoons and a decline in international fuel prices), the RATe of economic growth is declining quarter after quarter. For manufacturing, it is even close to zero, according to the latest estimates. Statistics related to employment and wages are even more worrying....
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Fact Check: India's growth did slump to 5.7%, but not due to 'technical reasons' as Amit Shah claims -Mayank Jain
-Scroll.in BJP chief’s claim that growth RATe declined due to change in the methodology doesn’t hold much water. Data released on August 31 marked the sixth straight quarter of slowing growth for the Indian economy as the gross domestic product growth RATe slipped to 5.7% in the first quarter of the current financial year. It was a sharp decline from 7.9% growth seen in the same quarter last year. Attempting to explain the...
More »States should spend more on nutrition -Malancha Chakrabarty
-Livemint.com Greater fiscal autonomy has not yet translated into higher spending on nutrition by states Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said, “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” Sadly, hunger and undernutrition continue to plague our country. India’s record in addressing undernutrition is abysmal. With a stunting RATe of 38.4%, India accounts for about a third of the world’s stunted...
More »Has no counting machines but using sophisticated tools to check scrapped notes: RBI
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is not using 'counting machines' for tallying the total number of demonetised notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in any of its offices, the central bank has said in an RTI reply. RATher, it is using "sophisticated Currency Verification and Processing (CVPS) machines for checking the numerical accuracy and genuiness of the currency notes, including SBNs (Specified Bank Notes that have...
More »Country's lowest infant mortality RATe recorded in Manipur -K Sarojkumar Sharma
-The Times of India IMPHAL: It is hard to believe that the state, mostly in the news for reports of armed conflicts, has been achieving the country's lowest infant mortality RATe (IMR) consecutively for the last three years — standing tall amidst other conventionally well-equipped states. According to the health ministry report, Manipur's IMR stands at nine deaths per 1000 live births. The national IMR, according to the latest available data,...
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