Author: CapitalGainsFund

May 30

Skymet casts doubts over IMD’s announcement of monsoons arrival; met office stands by forecast

Private weather forecaster Skymet on Monday questioned the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) announcement that the southwest monsoon arrived in Kerala on Sunday, three days ahead of the “normal” date. “Declaring monsoon based on single day observations amounts to gross violation of standards, never attempted in the past,” Skymet said. Going by what it called “specified objective […]
May 30

Govt may aim to slash logistics costs to 8% of GDP

The government may set a more ambitious target to reduce the country’s elevated logistics costs, long blamed for eroding its export competitiveness, as it inches closer to finalising a national logistics policy. It will likely set a target to reduce logistics costs by as much as five percentage points over the next four-five years to […]