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From Obesity To Rising Healthcare Costs, Why India Needs An Urgent War On Junk Food
The Economic Survey 2025-26 highlights ultra-processed foods as a public health concern linked to chronic diseases, obesity, and health inequalities, urging timely policy action.
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Inequality On Rise, Welfare In Retreat: Congress Slams Government
Ahead of the release of the Economic Survey and the presentation of the Union Budget, the Congress on Tuesday questioned the numbers the government has been presenting and claimed that "inequality is on the rise" with welfare in "retreat".
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World Inequality Report: India Has 85% Billionaires From Upper Castes, None From Scheduled Tribes
A recent report by the World Inequality Lab has documented a significant rise in economic disparities which has led to an uneven demographic makeup of billionaires in India.
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"I'm A Workaholic," IMF's Gita Gopinath Tells NDTV: Top Quotes
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. She also gave a message to the government.
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IMF's Gita Gopinath Speaks To NDTV: Highlights
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. Ms Gopinath underlined the need for vaccination "on a war footing".
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Percentage Of School Students Owning Smartphone In Rural India Rose To 61% In 2 Years: Economic Survey
The percentage of school students owning a smartphone in rural India has increased from over 36 per cent to 61 per cent in the last two years, the Economic Survey 2020-21 noted and stated that if utilised well, the resultant reduction in digital divide is likely to reduce inequalities in education.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
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63 Indian Billionaires Have More Money Than The Union Budget For 2018-19: Oxfam
India's richest 1 per cent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70 per cent of the country's population, while the total wealth of all Indian billionaires is more than the full-year budget, a new study said on Monday.
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India Advanced In 30 Years As Much As Britain Did In 150: Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on Saturday said India has made rapid progress on the economic front but economic inequality in the country remains an issue.
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Varun Gandhi Wants Rich Lawmakers To Forego Salary To Reduce Inequality Gap
BJP lawmaker Varun Gandhi has urged Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to initiate a "movement" to encourage economically advantaged Lok Sabha members to forego their remunerations for the remaining term of the Lower House. The move would reinforce people's faith in their representatives, he said.
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From Obesity To Rising Healthcare Costs, Why India Needs An Urgent War On Junk Food
The Economic Survey 2025-26 highlights ultra-processed foods as a public health concern linked to chronic diseases, obesity, and health inequalities, urging timely policy action.
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Inequality On Rise, Welfare In Retreat: Congress Slams Government
Ahead of the release of the Economic Survey and the presentation of the Union Budget, the Congress on Tuesday questioned the numbers the government has been presenting and claimed that "inequality is on the rise" with welfare in "retreat".
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World Inequality Report: India Has 85% Billionaires From Upper Castes, None From Scheduled Tribes
A recent report by the World Inequality Lab has documented a significant rise in economic disparities which has led to an uneven demographic makeup of billionaires in India.
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"I'm A Workaholic," IMF's Gita Gopinath Tells NDTV: Top Quotes
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. She also gave a message to the government.
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IMF's Gita Gopinath Speaks To NDTV: Highlights
IMF chief Gita Gopinath spoke to NDTV on the pandemic, vaccine inequity amid Omicron threat, and economic challenges and opportunities in India. Ms Gopinath underlined the need for vaccination "on a war footing".
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Percentage Of School Students Owning Smartphone In Rural India Rose To 61% In 2 Years: Economic Survey
The percentage of school students owning a smartphone in rural India has increased from over 36 per cent to 61 per cent in the last two years, the Economic Survey 2020-21 noted and stated that if utilised well, the resultant reduction in digital divide is likely to reduce inequalities in education.
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Lockdown Made India's Billionaires 35% Richer, Lakhs Lost Jobs: Oxfam
The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.
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63 Indian Billionaires Have More Money Than The Union Budget For 2018-19: Oxfam
India's richest 1 per cent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70 per cent of the country's population, while the total wealth of all Indian billionaires is more than the full-year budget, a new study said on Monday.
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India Advanced In 30 Years As Much As Britain Did In 150: Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on Saturday said India has made rapid progress on the economic front but economic inequality in the country remains an issue.
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Varun Gandhi Wants Rich Lawmakers To Forego Salary To Reduce Inequality Gap
BJP lawmaker Varun Gandhi has urged Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to initiate a "movement" to encourage economically advantaged Lok Sabha members to forego their remunerations for the remaining term of the Lower House. The move would reinforce people's faith in their representatives, he said.
