-The Hindu The question came in response to the Attorney General’s statement that the government and the RBI had ‘acted in consultation’ to notify demonetisation in November 2016 The Supreme Court on Monday asked the government whether it would have brushed aside objections from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had the Central bank opposed the demonetisation policy. The question from the Constitution Bench LED by Justice S. Abdul Nazeer came after Attorney...
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Explained: Why India’s economic growth slowed in the July-September quarter -Nachiket Deuskar
-Scroll.in The fading away of the base effect and a contraction in the manufacturing sector LED to the falling numbers. India’s gross domestic product grew by 6.3% in the July-September quarter of financial year 2022-’23, the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said on Wednesday. This was a sharp decrease from the 13.5% growth in the previous April-June quarter. In the corresponding July-September quarter of financial year 2021-’22, the growth rate was...
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-The Hindu How did the Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural Development Trust acquire personal information of voters? Can the data be recovered? The story so far: On November 16, Bengaluru’s civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) said in a press release that it had cancelLED permissions granted to the Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural Development Trust to conduct house-to-house surveys to help create awareness about the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral...
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-PTI/ Newsclick.in Nearly 3.64 lakh educated and "semi-educated" youngsters had registered with employment exchanges till December 2021. New Delhi: Nearly 3.64 lakh educated and "semi-educated" youngsters had registered with employment exchanges across Gujarat till December 2021, according to state government data. Of them, the highest number of unemployed youths -- 26,921 -- were in Vadodara, followed by Ahmedabad (26,628), Anand (22,515), Rajkot (18,997) and Kheda (16,163) districts. The figures were shared by Labour, Skill...
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Like the fight against poverty and hunger, the progress made by mankind against tuberculosis (TB) in the years up to 2019 has either slowed, stalLED, or reversed, and global TB targets are off track due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, although the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB decreased from 7.1 million to 5.8 million between 2019 and 2020, the number went up to 6.4 million in 2021....
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