Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, a respected economist, had described demonetisation as a monumental management failure and prophesied that the rate of growth of national income, that is, the GDP of the country, can decline by about two perce
NBCC has declared final dividend of Rs 74.25 crore to the union government for 2016-17 fiscal. The cheque has been handed over to minister of state (I/C) for housing and urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri by NBCC, CMD, Anoop Ku
Gas authority of India limited (GAIL) has sought support from the Uttar Pradesh government for expeditious implementation of piped natural gas (PNG) connectivity and compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicular conversions at several places in the
The idea of institutional arbitration has come to stay in India, said Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. “Enforcement is the cornerstone of any result that comes by arbitration by decree of a court. An award passed by institutiona
Campaigning in Himachal Pradesh early in November, prime minister Narendra Modi raised the pitch for good governance when he spoke about ridding the state of the five demons of mining mafia, forest mafia, tenders mafia, transfer mafia and drug maf
The November 8, 2016 announcement to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes did have a huge impact on the GDP, but it also left economists scratching their heads as they looked at numbers which were puzzling. Real GDP growth decli
A group of citizens including eminent jurists and civil activists have written to Justice BN Srikrishna, retired supreme court judge and chairperson, committee of experts on data protection framework, to protest against the non-transparency
Namibia has joined the growing list of countries where India has made investments in oil and gas blocks. ONGC Videsh has acquired a 30 percent stake in an oil block in this southwest African nation which is known for its rich natural resources, in
The supreme court on Friday asked the banks and the telecom service providers (TSP) to specify a deadline in their messages for linking accounts with Aadhaar. The apex court clubbed four new petitions related to Aadhaar with
Waiting time at toll plazas is likely to come down as FASTags will now be fitted in all four wheel motor vehicles sold on or after December 1, 2017. The ministry of road transport & highways has issued a gazette notification and
India has one of the highest numbers of TB cases in the world, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has said. An estimated 10.4 million people fell ill with TB in 2016: 90% were adults, 65% were male, 10% were people living with
Over about a year, the number of telecom operators in India has effectively shrunk from 14 to three: Idea Cellular-Vodafone; Bharti Airtel and Mukesh Ambani-owned behemoth Reliance Jio – apart from the state-run BSNL/MTNL. Virtually every ot
India has slipped in the Global Gender Gap Index ranking of the World Economic Forum, just days after it did so well in World Bank’s ease of doing business. It now stands at 108th position.
The government has revised the price of ethanol at Rs 40.85 per litre under ethanol blended petrol (EBP) programme for supply to the public sector oil marketing companies—Indian oil corporation ltd (IOCL), Hindustan petroleum corporation lim
In the not too distant future, the package you ordered from an e-commerce website may well be delivered at your doorstep by a drone. The draft norms for drones have been finalised, which is expected to give a huge push to drones rev
Recognising India’s efforts to have a low emission-economy, the global environment facility (GEF) has partnered with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of ministry of power’s PSUs for creating and sustaini
Aadhaar was supposed to make life convenient. Its architects and backers, however, had some other plans. You just don’t have to enrol for it and use it as it suits. As asked in several government’s dictatorial sermons, a person has no
An enquiry has been ordered after at least 18 people were killed and dozens were injured when a boiler exploded on Wednesday afternoon in the power generating unit at NTPC Unchahar plant at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. The boiler pi
The Gita Press is synonymous with Hindu religious texts: its cheap editions of the Bhagwad Gita, and equally its Hanuman Chalisa, have reinforced the piety of devout Hindus. Many use them in daily prayers or to seek religious wisdom. The press als
Pakistani experts and commentators seem rattled by India’s rather swift move to operationalise the seat route to the landlocked Afghanistan via the Iranian port of Chabahar, ending, for all times, the war-ravaged country’s dependence o
