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India’s Inequality Report: Moderately Low But Persistent
Why in news? The World Bank’s Spring 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief placed India in the “moderately low inequality” category with a Gini coeffi...
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Why in news? The World Bank’s Spring 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief placed India in the “moderately low inequality” category with a Gini coeffi...
Why in news? The fourth International Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) was held in Seville, Spain, to overhaul the global financial archite...
Why in news? The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru launched the BHARAT study to develop India‑specific biomarkers for healthy ageing, ...
Why in news? NITI Aayog released its report “Chemical Industry: Powering India’s Participation in Global Value Chains,” envisioning India as a ...
Why in news? Several global technology firms and big companies have been accused of conducting “backdoor layoffs”—measures that reduce head‑co...
Why in news? The Reserve Bank of India has advised banks to integrate the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) developed by the Department of Telecomm...
Why in news? On 1 July 2025 the Union Cabinet approved the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme to generate more than 3.5 crore jobs over two y...
Why in news? In June 2025 the Ministry of Railways launched RailOne, a mobile application that integrates various railway services in a single platfo...
Why in news? The Goods and Services Tax (GST) completed eight years on 1 July 2025. The tax was rolled out on 1 July 2017 to unify India’s indir...