The S&P Services PMI Index for April also pointed out that the level of job creation had remained static despite the growth in business activity, and that input price pressures remain.
Several ASHA workers said authorities who earlier assured them better wages, PPE and safe working conditions haven’t kept those promises despite a two-day stoppage last year.
Mahindra, which bought a 70% stake in Ssangyong Motors Co for $368 million in 2010, will hold 30% or less if the deal goes through. It will also do a 25% capital reduction.
The pace of activity was enough for the RBI to revise its forecast for the economy, which it now expects to exit a recession in the current quarter to December.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced collateral-free loans, credit guarantees, capital infusion and various other liquidity-boosting measures for MSMEs, NBFCs & DISCOMs.
Government is banking on NSSF, market and investors. But if any of these don’t play as per the script, then financing of fiscal deficit will become challenging.
Govt needs to facilitate wage-intensive manufacturing by ensuring labour law reform, a competitive rupee, efficient infrastructure and supply-chain development.
Capacity utilisation rate, consumer confidence, and outlook for demand in manufacturing sector in third quarter were less optimistic, RBI surveys show.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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