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Farmers’ suicides increase by 19% in Andhra Pradesh: NCRB

-Deccan Chronicle Visakhapatnam: Farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh increased by over 19 per cent in 2021 compared to the previous year, as per the latest National Crime Records Bureau Report. The state stood in third place in farmer suicides in the country, the third time in a row, data provided by the NCRB showed. A total of 1,065 people working in the Farm Sector (farmers, tenant farmers and workers) ended their lives...

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Public sector banks have ensured financial inclusion, finds a new empirical study

Are public sector banks (PSBs) important for the economy? Have the PSBs served the purpose for which they were created? Could the PSBs compete efficiently against the private sector banks (PVBs)? These are some of the questions, which have been answered by a chapter in the RBI Bulletin's August edition. Efficiency of PSBs Co-authored by Snehal S Herwadkar, Sonali Goel, and Rishuka Bansal (2022) of the Banking Research Division, Reserve Bank of...

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Over 11,000 crop residue management machines go missing in Punjab; vigilance probe ordered

-PTI/ The Hindu Punjab’s Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said according to initial investigation by the agriculture department, it appears that a sum of ₹125-150 crore has been misused The Punjab government has said it has initiated a vigilance probe into a ₹150-crore scam in the distribution of crop residue management machines among farmers during the previous dispensation led by the Congress. State Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, in a statement on Wednesday,...

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India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests -Nikhil Rampal

-ThePrint.in India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker. New Delhi: There’s much to lament in India’s post-Covid job market, where recovery has been painfully slow. However, government data suggests that when it comes to the salaried sector, the participation of religious minorities — Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians, in that order — has been...

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Rebuild agriculture to make it future-ready -Devinder Sharma

-The Tribune Rebuild agriculture to make it future-ready With Green Revolution having outlived its utility, it’s time to move to the next stage. The 75th anniversary of Independence provides an excellent opportunity to rethink and redesign the road map. This will call for moving away from the economic thought that has always relied on sacrificing agriculture for the sake of industry. The focus has to be on making the village the hub...

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