-The Hindu New policy hopes to expand their reach and spread Birgaon: When the lights went on in Birgaon for the first time on a chilly winter evening late last December, it allowed the government to announce in APRIl this year that every village in India now had electricity. Every home in Birgaon actually has power, thanks to a solar microgrid set up in the village centre and wired into every home. By...
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Doctors seek changes to sex test rules -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph New Delhi: A panel of doctors has called for changes to the rules banning prenatal sex determination, warning they are dePRIving rural populations of easy access to the point-of-care ultrasound scans (pocus) needed to diagnose and treat critically ill patients. Doctors associated with the Jan Swasthya Sahyog, which runs a rural hospital in Chhattisgarh, have recommended technology and better policing to improve access to the scans and curb their misuse...
More »In five years, pvt banks see 450 per cent spike in bad loans -George Mathew
-The Indian Express Among PRIvate banks, ICICI Bank, whose MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar is facing allegations of conflict of interest while sanctioning loans to the Videocon Group, topped the NPA table with Rs 54,063 crore in bad loans. Mumbai: Data over the last five years shows that PRIvate banks have been steadily accumulating bad loans, with a 450 per cent rise in gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of these banks — from...
More »Poll fetters off, oil in daily dash
-The Telegraph/ PTI New Delhi: Petrol PRIces have touched a record high of Rs 76.24 per litre and diesel climbed to a highest ever Rs 67.57 in New Delhi with the oil PSUs passing on to consumers the impact of four weeks of a relentless rise in international PRIces. The PRIce of petrol rose by 33 paise a litre in Delhi, the highest since the daily PRIce revisions came into force in...
More »Duty may be cut to cool fuel PRIces
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday raised hopes of the government cutting excise duty to soften the impact of oil PRIces as petrol and diesel PRIces hit historic highs on Sunday with state-run fuel retailers racing to catch up with current market rates after freezing pump PRIces for 19 days ahead of the Karnataka election. "The Centre is sensitive towards the rising fuel PRIces. Various alternatives...
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