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1. Centre decided to offer tax incentive to Telangana along with Andhra Pradesh to promote industrialization and economic growth.
2. India has agreed to share data on Nuclear Material and equipment to make U.S. waive its tracking requirements on the material.
3. RBI move on remittances(Increament in limit) reflects strength of rupee.
4. Stiff sentence soon for milk adulteration.
5. The Number of new cancer cases is expected to rise by about 70% globally over the next two decades:WHO

The Hindu News - 5 Feb 2015

Quotas do not hurt efficiency, says study

It measured impact of reservation on productivity in Railways

A first-of-its-kind study of the impact of reservations in public sector jobs on productivity and efficiency has shown that the affirmative action did not reduce productivity in any sector, but had, in fact, raised it in some areas.

[Ed] Brick by brick

Clearing the path for infrastructure growth

Currently, the infrastructure sector is looking at substantial interventions from the government to seed critical investments in sectors such as railways and other transport, as well as across the board regulatory reforms.

But challenges remain. In the roads sector, of the 239 projects covering 21,747 km awarded by NHAI until November 2013, only 77 are fully complete. It is imperative that the government resolves the challenges facing the existing PPP investors and attracts fresh foreign capital to

[Ed] The twist in the growth story

Reforms must be part of a continuing agenda. The basic principle guiding reforms must be to create a competitive environment with a stress on efficiency. In many ways the coming decade will be crucial for India as growth is the answer to many of its socio-economic problems

The data on national income released recently give a new twist to India’s growth story. The most significant change is with respect to the growth rate for 2013-14. While the earlier estimate showed a growth rate of 4.7 per cent, the growth rate according to the new estimate is

[Ed] A switch in time

A new study by Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera reveals dramatic improvement in Bihar’s public distribution system (PDS), with grain leakages coming down from 90.9 per cent in 2004-05 to 24.2 per cent in 2011-12. True, there is need for more micro and ground-level research to ascertain these findings, which are based on mere comparison of household PDS consumption data from National Sample Survey rounds with official

[Ed] A mortar-for-bullet game

New Delhi and Islamabad should now begin negotiations to conclude a new ceasefire agreement instead of engaging in military one-upmanship
The conclusion of a number of significant agreements by India and the United States during President Barack Obama’s recent visit to New Delhi has attracted a great deal of adverse commentary from Islamabad. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Foreign Affairs pointsman Sartaj Aziz has voiced serious concerns about the regional “strategic imbalance” arising out of the Indo-U.S.