Morning Digest | Congress to give 50% reservation to women, youth in all party positions; India, U.K. Finance Ministers agree to make further progress on FTA, and more

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Congress economic resolution identifies job creation as the cornerstone of policy making

The Congress, terming employment generation as the core and foundation of its draft economic resolution, said that India’s “new economic vision and action will be recrafted from the current obsession with capital and move more towards labour”.

Ukraine war is exacerbating fragilities in the global economy: G20 Ministers

A meeting of finance leaders of the G20 economies ended on February 25 without a joint communiqué after faultlines over how to describe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could not be bridged. Instead, a G20 Chair’s Summary and Outcome Document were released after the two-day meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Bengaluru.

Congress expands CWC, adds reservation

To reflect the changing social and political realities of India, the Congress on Saturday announced the amendment of the party constitution to provide for 50% reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), other backward classes (OBCs), minorities and women in the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision making body.

PM makes a cultural outreach by glorifying Kannada and Kannadigas