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    • Macro Matters | The NSSO spills the beans about the new GDP series

      Macro Matters | The NSSO spills the beans about the new GDP series

      The report casts serious doubt about the credibility of a database used to compute GDP

    • Lungi is the most popular traditional attire among Indian men: Survey

      Lungi is the most popular traditional attire among Indian men: Survey

      Odisha tops in the number of lungis draped by their males, followed by Bihar, West Bengal, Tripura, and Tamil Nadu. Haryana and Delhi took the lion’s share of the households that purchased the kurta-pyjama suit

    • Going formal: How the government is trying to widen India's tax base

      Going formal: How the government is trying to widen India's tax base

      The government is trying to put an end to the informal sector by promoting cashless transactions and digitisation. With the Finance Bill, it puts a cap on the value of a single cash transaction at Rs 2 lakh.

    • Number of unemployed persons rises to over 1 cr in FY12

      Number of unemployed persons rises to over 1 cr in FY12

      "The estimated unemployed persons on usual status basis during 2009-10 and 2011-12 was 0.95 crore and 1.06 crore, respectively," Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya told the Rajya Sabha

    • '18% population of urban area covered under health insurance'

      '18% population of urban area covered under health insurance'

      Beneficiaries enrolled under RSBY are entitled for health insurance coverage of Rs 30,000 per annum to families (a unit of five) on floater basis in government empaneled hospitals (includes both private and public), he said.

    • UPA on course to destroy more jobs with minimum wage law

      UPA on course to destroy more jobs with minimum wage law

      Unfortunately, under trade union pressure, the government is planning one more piece of legislation to ensure that jobs don't grow: it is preparing to legislate a National Minimum Wage - which will ensure that even states with competitive wage rates will now become more employment-resistant.

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