-Business Standard 32% of respondents expect the economic situation to improve a lot, compared with 17% last year Despite lingering concerns over a growth revival, Indians today are more optimistic on the state of the Economy.than they were a year ago. According to a study by Pew Research Center, 74 per cent of Indians currently think the Economy.is doing well, compared with 64 per cent a year ago. Of those...

-Livemint.com Change of definition behind fall rather than plan for bettering lot of poor farmers, improving agricultural Economy. New Delhi: Between 2013 and 2014, the number of farmer suicides halved. That’s what the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) which tracks farmer suicides would have us believe. It isn’t an improvement in India’s agricultural Economy.or a programme aimed at bettering the lot of poor farmers that has achieved this. Instead, it is a...

A long-pending demand of civil society activists and NGOs, who are campaigning for probity, accountability, and transparency in public life, is going to be fulfilled soon. A welcome move has been made by the Government to enumerate and publish data on crimes committed against media persons, Right to Information activists, and whistleblowers in the forthcoming edition of Crime in India, which is published annually by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)...

-Scroll.in Rural landlessness, the strongest indicator of poverty, which afflicts a third of Indians, can be eradicated if the government acted on pending bills and policy recommendations. India’s Economy.has already crossed $2 trillion and is growing annually at around 6%. But these figures cannot hide the fact that 69% of the population is rural, and 70% of this, or nearly half of all Indians, still depend on land and land-based activities...

-The Hindu To help break the impasse on the Bill, the Cabinet decided on adding a provision to enable the States to frame and pass their own laws. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, deliberated on Tuesday a proposal to amend the Land Bill to give flexibility to the States to frame their own laws for land acquisition, a demand various Chief Ministers aired at the July 15 meeting...