-Reuters/ Livemint.com In spite of unacceptably high inflation, the Indian central bank should hold off on raising interest rates, according to Jayant Varma, a member of the monetary policy committee India's central bank should pause interest rate hikes, despite unacceptably high inflation, to avoid stalling a recovery in economic growth, monetary policy committee member Jayant Varma told Reuters on Monday. The Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy committee has raised its key repo...
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Mind matters: Editorial on the world’s burden of suicide mortality
-The Telegraph The report prepared by the United Nations states that more men die by suicide, although more women attempt to take their own lives Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death globally. According to the Human Development Report 2021/22, more than seven lakh people die by suicide every year. Worryingly, the world’s burden of suicide mortality is borne by low and middle-INCome countries — over 77 per cent —...
More »Rice and wheat stocks dip by 37 per cent -R Suryamurthy
-The Telegraph Monthly economic review of finance ministry says that there is no 'room for complacency on inflation front' The rice and wheat stocks of the central government have shrunk alarmingly by as much as 37 per cent in a year as rising food inflation signals growing shortages in the economy. Wheat and rice stocks in government-owned godowns stood at 511.36 lakh tonnes on October 1, data from the Food Corporation of India...
More »Empowering farmers is essential for the broad prosperity of India -Mansukh Mandaviya
-Livemint.com The government aims to achieve this through a new network of farm need fulfilment centres and a single brand of fertilizer Farmers have always been the backbone of India’s economy and the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is striving to strengthen Indian farming through innovative and concrete measures in the fertilizer sector with the vision of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. Structural changes in this sector are crucial for achieving this...
More »"Erroneous, Methodological Issues": India On Poor Hunger Index Rating -Kadambini Sharma
-NDTV.com Three out of the four indicators are related to health of children and cannot be representative of the entire population, India said New Delhi: India on Sunday termed the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report an "erroneous measure of hunger" and claimed it "suffers from serious methodological issues", after its ranking slipped to 107th out of 121 countries. A press note issued by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development said...
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