-Livemint.com The government’s inordinately large food stockpiles have resulted in an ARTificial market scarcity On 7 January, the ministry of statistics released India’s advance estimates of national income for 2019-20, pegging the economy’s growth rate this financial year at 5%. Based on data available for the first two quARTers, this seems an overestimate. Most indicators suggest that actual growth may be lower than 5%. This is bad news, especially since there is...
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Infant deaths: A bleak winter for Kota's children -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu While the children’s families blame the staff of Kota’s J.K. Lon Hospital for negligence, studies show that the government hospital is poorly equipped and understaffed. Mohammed Iqbal reports on the failure of the primary healthcare system which has led to the deaths of more than a hundred children in the last 40 days When four-month-old Tejas had a constant cough, ran a high fever and experienced shortness of breath in...
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...
More »When farmers turn to play the market -PARThasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Between September and December, when retail onion prices soared from around Rs 30 to Rs 100-plus per kg (they have since fallen to Rs 50 or so), Paswan has similarly urged state governments through Twitter to “act” against alleged hoarders of the bulb. On January 7, Union Consumer Affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan took to Twitter, to issue a stern warning to “hoarders”, whom he blamed for “creating ARTificial...
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