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And a large part of that has been driven by growth in the manufacturing and the construction space. Some of the numbers do offer a lot of question marks because if you look at agriculture, if you look at industries, you know, our core sector data is from steel, cement, all of them have actually shrunk. Consumption, in fact, has also been weak too, almost for the nine months it grew by only 5 . And thats why there was there has been a lot of question mark, but a large bit of this has been pushed by the Government Spending in the construction space. You know, Building Infrastructure around the country and some bit of private capital and private investments also seem to be flowing in to the economy right now. And that has pushed the growth to this level right before the national elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term in power. Narendra modi. And this is the premise, the high growth rate where india has become somewhere an alternative to china for most compan
There has been growing concern in washington that the deal was being worked on by russia and north korea, it followed a visit to north korea by the Russian Defence minister. And so now in the last few hours we have confirmation from officials in washington that it is believed as you say that kim jong un and Vladimir Putin will meet at some point at a place to be decided it seems or at least revealed in russia over the next few weeks. A very high stakes meeting, they had met before 2019 was the last time in russia but clearly the situation is different now. We know that russia needs more Artillery Ammunition with very few friends around the world. It is perhaps telling they are turning to a pariah state, like north korea, too it seems source this weaponry that they crucially need to pursue the war in ukraine. That would not be one sided, what we understand and this is been reported by the new york times, this would come at a price and the price for north korea would be advanced technolo
To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigation today, it has found that what looks like the Water Companies illegally discharging raw Sewage Hundreds Of Times Last year. Our team has seen analysis. They have looked at data from three of the largest Water Companies, times, wessex and Southern Water. It appears to show that On 400 Spills Last year, lasting thousands of hours, sewage was released, not during wet weather, storms, heavy rain and
And it is important once it had that that the government acted on it i as swiftly as possible. Of course i know thei timing is frustrating. But i want to give people a sense of the scale of what we are grappling with here. There are around 22,000 schools. In england and the important thing to know is we are expecting 95 of those schools will not be impacted by this, i around 50 schools have already been mitigated. Another 100 are in the process of being so. 0ur Expectation is in a matter of weeks the bulk of the remaining schools that will have this issue will be identified as well. Also an important context to know is that in many cases this could be limited to a single classroom i for example, so people should have a sense of scale of what might be happening as well. Earlier, a former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education accused mr sunak and the uk treasury of refusing to fund School Repairs adequately, despite being warned that lives were at risk from crumbling concrete