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Rising oil prices due to the war in Ukraine have pushed up inflation in India, which needs monetary tightening and measures to address structural weaknesses to improve growth potential, a senior IMF official said. The country’s economy is expected to grow 8.2% in 2022-23, down 0.8 percentage points, said Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf, acting director of the …
The union cabinet approved on March 26 a six-month extension (of 1 in addition to his normal quota of food grains under the National Food Safety Act (NFSA)) to Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY). The PDG press release further stated that the government will spend Rs 80,000 crore on 24.4 million tonnes (t) …
Indonesia, the world’s largest exporter of cooking oils, will expand its export ban to include crude palm oil, adding to uncertainty in a market that has seen skyrocketing price volatility and threatens to worsen global inflation. food. The ban will extend to crude palm oil, RBD palm oil, and used cooking oil, Coordinating Minister for …
India’s northwestern state of Rajasthan has planned power cuts for factories for four hours, becoming at least the third state to halt industrial activity to cope with surging power demand amid intense heat waves. Extreme heat continued to scorch much of South Asia this week, offering no respite from India’s hottest March on record and …
The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) Universal Account Number (UAN) and the new informal sector workers database are expected to be interoperable to provide a transparent backbone for universal social security coverage in the broader labor market. “One registry and one UAN should be enough for all workers in the labor ecosystem,” a senior government …
US economic growth contracted 1.4% on an annualized basis in the first quarter of 2022 as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and reduced government spending hit consumers and businesses, data showed the government on Thursday. The data was much worse than the modest increase analysts had expected after the economy grew 6.9% in the last …
The cost of education at foreign institutions, already much higher than its Indian counterparts, has risen sharply in recent decades. While most major banks and some non-bank financial firms offer study abroad loans, large loan amounts and tighter work visa restrictions increase the risk of remaining in debt. This makes it even more important to …
The last change in the interest rates of the Small Savings Plans (SSS: better known as Correos Plans) was for the April-June 2020 quarter and was notified on March 31, 2020. The change in the interest rate obviously went down. That was when we were in the middle of the Covid pandemic. The Reserve Bank …