''With the central bank's focus on moderating inflation, the monetary policy has been tailored to ensure a disinflation process. Despite expectations around the February rate hike of 25 basis points likely being amongst the last, largely owing to a moderation around...
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Landslides in Himachal Pradesh increased six times in past 2 yrs: Govt Report
High intensity rainfall coupled with cutting of hill slopes or rocks at the foothills are the main reason behind the significant number of landslides, experts say. Extensive cutting of hill slopes for construction and widening of roads, blasting for tunnels, hydro...
NPS, APY subscribers rise 23 pc in FY23; over 1 cr customers added under Atal Pension Yojana
Of the total 6.24 crore subscribers currently, 23.86 lakh and 60.72 lakh are central and state government employees, respectively. Corporate subscribers stood at 16.63 lakh New Delhi: The number of subscribers under the National Pension Scheme (NPS) and Atal Pension...
Equity mutual funds inflows hit 9-month high at Rs 15,685 crore in Feb
Backed by healthy inflow into equity funds, the mutual fund industry saw an inflow of Rs 9,575 crore in February 'With interest rates expected to rise from the current levels, debt funds continued to witness outflows as investors churn their allocation between short...
Unprecedented increase in global ocean plastic pollution
The ocean supplies half the planet’s oxygen, absorbs more than a third of carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and feeds billions of people. But it is in trouble from overfishing, plastic dumping and acidification The report comes just days after...
Brain stroke is the second most common cause of death in India:top health expert
Delivering a keynote address at the event titled, "Stroke care and its primary preventive methods in poor resource settings in India", Dr Srivastava said, "Stroke is the second most common cause of death in India. About 1,85,000 strokes occur every year in India with...
1% women migrated in search of job, 87% shifted due to marriage: NSSO
The objectives of the MIS were to collect information for developing estimates of some important Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators, to collect information regarding purchase or construction of houses or flats by the household for residential purpose after...
Nearly everyone globally exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants: Lancet study
While the daily PM2.5 levels have reduced in Europe and North America in the two decades to 2019, levels have increased in South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean, with more than 70 per cent of days globally seeing levels above what is...
Automobile retail sales see double-digit growth in Feb on robust demand
Total commercial vehicle retail sales in February grew 17 per cent to 79,027 units, as compared to 67,391 units in the same month last year. New Delhi: Automobile retail sales in India witnessed a double-digit year-on-year growth in February driven by robust sales...
Centre saved $ 27 bn in schemes using DBT method, says Economic Affairs Secy
“And since the transfers are all direct, end to end, and swift, there is little scope for corruption and leakages and removal of duplicate/ fake beneficiaries. In our own experience, DBT has entailed a saving of more than USD 27 billion just across key central...