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With barely four months in hand for the next Lok Sabha election, more than Rs 21 crore worth of funds meant for 6,800 schemes and works under the MP Local Area Development Fund

UK economy unexpectedly shrinks in October, fuelling hopes the BoE will start to cut rates

The number of pending works under MPLADS in Assam is the highest among all states in the Northeast region.

Congress leader seeks to steer the debate on recent Parliament breach towards unemployment

“The youth are desperate – we have to focus on this issue, give jobs to the youth,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said while speaking about the Parliament breach incident, in which the accused were primarily unemployed youth.

Logistics Costs: The report has been prepared by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in a consultative manner with guidance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) experts and task force members.

This inflation number is representative of an extremely diverse India. India that lives in both skyscrapers & slums. India that eats in roadside dhaabas & Michelin star restaurants. India that shops from Gucci & Palika Bazaar.

“The kind of investment that India is making in both physical and digital infrastructure....all that is creating an enabling environment where we will start getting good and credible data, on the basis of which we can do data-based planning and ultimately data based policy making as well,” DPIIT secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said while releasing the study.

As rural households tend to spend more on food, the proportion of food and beverages in the rural basket is more than half at 54.18%, compared with 36.29% for urban areas. So, changes in food inflation tend to affect rural inflation more than anything else.

Smriti Iranis statement seem to counter the governments October release of a draft Menstrual Hygiene Policy.