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While a majority of the women had to settle for low-paying agriculture jobs or work without pay in household enterprises, there have been some bright spots too — 86 percent of net new hiring in the manufacturing sector are females while men join construction

Jammu Tawi, Nov 22: Jammu Kashmir’s current unemployment rate has decreased to around four per cent from 5.2 per cent in the financial year 2021-22, a senior official said. Director (Employment) Nisar Ahmad stated this during a meeting here to give an overview of the employment scenario in Jammu and Kashmir. “In the recent survey

Price stability and financial stability are both important in the economy however, excessive focus on one at the cost of other can generate potential stress, Das said.

Economists say it may reach the milestone by FY25

According to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, which monitors infrastructure projects worth Rs 150 crore and above, out of 1,788 projects, 411 reported cost overruns and 837 projects were delayed.

"Total original cost of implementation of the 1,788 projects was Rs 24,78,446.60 crore, and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be Rs 29,09,526.63 crore, which reflects overall cost overruns of Rs 4,31,080.03 crore (17.39 per cent of original cost)," the ministrys latest report for October 2023 said. According to the report, the expenditure incurred on these projects till October 2023 was Rs 15,27,102.91 crore, which is 52.49 per cent of the anticipated cost of the projects.

Fixed deposit interest rate hike: The era of rising interest rates on fixed deposits is not over yet. Some factors that indicate this is credit growth remaining much higher than deposit growth; the recent decision of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to increase the investment limit of non-callable deposits to Rs 1 crore. As an FD investor, you can take advantage of rising interest rates to invest in term deposits. Know how your FD interest rate will be impacted in the short term and long term.

Reserve Bank of Indias (RBIs) MPC, in its October meeting, projected CPI inflation at 5.4 per cent for 2023-24, , cpi inflation, MOSPI, reseve bank of india, food inflation

While many advanced economies have been grappling with elevated prices for months, consumer price inflation in India dropped to a five-month low in October. Apart from prices of cereals, fruits, and pulses, the changes in most other items

Remaining in the negative zone, India's wholesale inflation dropped to - 0.52% in October 2023, as against - 0.26% in the previous month.