-The Telegraph The index includes 5 pillars comprising 41 indicators on the basis of which the states have been ranked for literacy among children. * The Index is aimed at understanding the overall state of foundational learning across children aged below 10 years in India * Chief minister Mamata Banerjee congratulates all teachers, guardians and members of the education department West Bengal has topped the ‘large states’ category in the Index on Foundational Literacy...
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How a four-decade high American inflation will hurt you -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com In November, the American consumer price inflation (CPI) for urBan consumers came in at 6.8%. The last time it was anywhere as high was nearly four decades back in June 1982, when it was 7.1%. It hadn’t even been a year since Mark David Chapman had killed John Lennon. Abba’s final performance and subsequent breakup, which went unannounced, was still a few months away. American and British pop and rock Bands...
More »GDP Numbers: What’s Wrong With How India Measures Manufacturing Output Data -Kaushal Shroff
-TheWire.in A claim of an 8.4% real GDP growth rate has little relevance even as rural India battles plummeting wage levels, depleted incomes and widespread unemployment. With the release of the GDP figures for the quarter ending September, the government machinery has been in full swing advancing the narrative that economic growth is indeed back on track. However, sorely missing from these narratives is the inconvenient factoid on the currently dismal state of...
More »Wholesale inflation surges to 30-year-high at 14.23 per cent
-The Telegraph The November figures stand out vis-a-vis a modest 2.29 per cent in the same month last year Wholesale inflation spiked to a 30-year high at 14.23 per cent in November — a level that hasn’t been seen since India embraced economic liberalisation in 1991. The surge was led by a vault in the prices of food, fuel and power, basic metals and chemical products. Inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI)...
More »14-year-old threatens against non-inclusion of eggs in mid-day meal -KM Rakesh
-The Telegraph Influential Lingayat and Hindu seers say they will brook no deviation from a purely vegetarian diet for children Bangalore: A 14-year-old Karnataka schoolgirl has told powerful seers opposing boiled eggs in midday meals they don’t understand the problems of the poor and have no business telling them what they should eat. In a video clip widely shared on social media, Anjali, a Class VIII student of MNM Government Girls School at...
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