-Scroll.in The state’s unemployment rate never touched double digits in 2017, and instead of a drop, Data shows there has been a 29% rise during his tenure. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath, in a speech addressing the UP Investors Summit in Lucknow on June 3, claimed that since the Bharatiya Janata Party government came into power in the state in 2017, the unemployment rate had fallen from 18% to 2.9%. He attributed the...
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Record Profits Boost Corporate Sector in Pandemic -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in This is in contrast to estimated 84% of Indian families reporting decline in their earnings due to pandemic related lockdowns and restrictions. The trend was visible from last year but the scale of profits reported by listed companies after the last financial year ended in March this year is nothing short of mind-boggling. According to latest Data by CMIE or Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, companies listed at the BSE (formerly...
More »Almost half of Indians feel it's ok for kids to work if they are going to school: CRY survey -Sravani Sarkar
-TheWeek.in More than one-third feel money earned by children essential to running household Child labour might not be easy to eradicate given the worrying perception of Indians on the issue, as brought forth by a rapid assessment survey on social perception of child labour conducted by Child Rights and You (CRY) India volunteers on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour (June 12). The survey shows that 45 per cent of the...
More »Fact-checking Modi government’s claims of record infrastructure growth in the past eight years -Divyani Dubey
-Scroll.in BJP leaders are promoting the regime’s achievements in developing airports, air routes and national highways. Here’s what official records say. The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government completed eight years in power in May. Using the hashtag #8YearsOfInfraGati, the incumbent government, BJP leaders and several ministers, including Prime Minister Modi, made a series of claims on social media and in newspaper advertisements related to the growth of urban transport. In one such...
More »CCI to set up digital market unit to assess big tech behaviour -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com The sheer scale of transactions and transparency issues associated with digital markets add to the complexity. But our advantage is our Competition Act is quite flexible, CCI chairman said Competition Commission of India (CCI) will set up a digital market unit (DMU) to better understand and assess the conduct of e-commerce platforms and other digital economy firms so that any anti-competitive behaviour of new age businesses do not go undetected by...
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