-The Hindu Attention needs to be paid to both cyclical and structural dimensions of India’s present economic slowdown India’s current economic slowdown is due to a combination of two underlying trends. First, there is the short-run cyclical slowdown exhibited by a number of high-frequency indicators, reflecting a significant fall in demand, especially for sectors such as automobiles, consumer durables and housing. Second, there is the more serious long-term fall in investment and savings...

-The Hindu World’s largest teacher training programme, says HRD Ministry New Delhi: More than 42 lakh teachers and principals of primary and elementary-age government schools across the country will undergo a five-day training programme over the next few months to learn innovative teaching methods, the use of ART and technology in the classroom and basic counselling techniques. On Wednesday, the Human Resource Development Ministry kicked off the National Initiative for School Heads' and...

-The Indian Express Essentially, the ONORC scheme has been launched keeping in mind the internal migration of our country. Last Friday, the government launched the pilot project for the inter-state portability of ration cards between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and between Maharashtra and Gujarat, as pART of its ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme. “It is a historic day. We have stARTed off inter-state portability of ration card pairing two states...

-The Hindu Production in foundries supplying castings to the automobile industry has dropped considerably In Coimbatore, where a large number of industrial units and foundries are working in the automobile sector, the slump in vehicle demand is impacting several businesses indirectly. A micro industry with just two CNC machines, doing job work, used to earn nearly ?10,000 a week from selling scrap. This income has reduced steeply in the last couple of months...

-Newsclick.in Economist Jean Dreze attributes the better performance of the state in human development indicators to the extensive land reforms that were carried out by the National Conference government in the 1950s and contends that ARTicle 370 made these reforms possible. The Government of India recently abrogated the special status enjoyed by the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir under ARTicle 370 of the Indian Constitution. One of the main raison...