-NDTV.com A recent report by an international research and advisory company forecasts a grim future for the job market in the five biggest economies of Asia Pacific, including India. By 2040, the working population of these five economies -- India, China, South Korea, Australia, and Japan -- are at a higher risk of automation than North America and Europe, notes Forrester in its latest report 'Future Of Jobs Forecast, 2020 To 2040'. As...
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Has inflation peaked? -Lokeshwarri SK
-The Hindu Business Line Inflation has been moderating off late but RBI is unlikely to let its guard down * Has inflation peaked in India? It’s too early to conclude that inflation has peaked in India. While CPI inflation has been drifting lower since the APRIl 2022 peak of 7.79 per cent, the decline is very gradual. The July reading of 6.71 per cent is also well above the upper limit of RBI’s...
More »Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers throwing away their garlic crops? -Rakesh Kumar Malviya
-Down to Earth The production of the allium has doubled in the last decade; Chinese, Iranian garlic with larger cloves in greater demand, say farmers There have been several calls to allow garlic export after several video clips on social media showed farmers from Madhya Pradesh throwing out or burning their crops, allegedly over low PRIces of the allium. One clip making rounds showed the crop being dumped into a river, while another...
More »How about MSP for cattle fodder? -Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair
-Deccan Herald RBI has only been talking about food inflation as it hits the 'human belly'. But what about the 'cow’s belly'? During a recent trip to Hyderabad in Telangana, this author met a very enterPRIsing former NRI, who lived in the USA and has since returned to the motherland and set up a dairy farm to supply the people of the city with fresh cow milk and curd. Of course, the...
More »As Freebie Debate Rages, What Defines 'Revdi'? Nobody Really Knows. -Kaushal Shroff
-TheWire.in There are no watertight categorisations that clearly demarcate where a subsidy ends and a so-called freebie begins. Amaravati: A maelstrom has been brewing in the political landscape over the precise markers of a subsidy and a freebie. PRIme Minister Narendra Modi delivered the first blow last month when he pointed out that other political parties were propagating a “revdi culture” which was dangerous to the youth as well as to the...
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