The government has raised Rs 21,000 crore through stake sales and buybacks in April-September 2016-17. This is the highest-ever first half disinvestment revenue for any year, raising expectations for the rest of the financial year.
The distribution of monsoon this season has been the best in the last three years, with only a third of the districts seeing deficiency compared with almost half in fiscal 2015 and 46 percent in 2014. Importantly, most of the deficient districts a
Calling it a significant amount, finance minister Arun Jaitley has said that black money worth Rs 65,250 crore has been disclosed under the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) so far. Addressing a press conference in Delhi on Saturday, Jaitley said th
As a number of conspiracy theories are floating around as reasons for the Akhilesh-Mulayam fight, here we are trying to have a deeper understanding of the bonds and equations within the Yadav clan and its impact on the party’s image and futu
We had two parallel exercises in the government for the last 30-40 years. Every time we had a discussion on economic policy or budget there always was discussion on rationalisation of subsidies. And as part of the poverty alleviation programmes&he
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, has offered “his good offices” to help resolve the escalating tension between India and Pakistan following a terror attack in Uri that left 19 Indian soldiers dead. Ban urged both sides
The ‘Digital India’ initiative aligns the country with the fourth industrial revolution, focusing on building robust digital capabilities and creating meaningful prospects for investments, said KPMG report India CEO Outlook 2016.
For a split second, six-year-old deaf boys Vivek and Ritesh looked perplexed, and then they grinned as they were able to hear for the first time after a tiny cochlear implant was switched on. These two boys from south Gujar
In the spring of 2012, Akhilesh Yadav was on the campaign trail to get the Samajwadi Party, of which he had been in charge for two years then, back into power in Uttar Pradesh. One day as he was leaving for Sitapur from Lucknow, his father Mulayam
India’s diplomatic heft in South Asia became clear when Sri Lanka too decided not to attend the SAARC summit in Islamabad. With this, five members of the eight-member South Asian Association of Regional Cooperati
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that the government is working on a target date of April 1, 2017 for the roll out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the country. He said that till September 16, 2017, that is one yea
Within six months of prohibition being imposed in Bihar, the Patna High Court on Friday put an end to
The government is looking to sell some of its stake in NMDC, NALCO, BHEL through the offer for sale (OFS) route. According to a news report in moneycontrol.com, the centre may divest through an OFS in companies that bought back government sh
(1) The figures of khadi production and sales given by the KVIC chairman are in nominal terms, whereas we include the real value of production and sales in our paper. The same nominal figures, available in the latest KVIC annual reports, after adj
It was 9.50 am on a sultry Friday when a 42-year-old lean man with droopy eyes waited for his turn along with 150-odd patients outside Safdarjung hospital’s fever clinic, as his body temperature zoomed to 104 degrees. Madhuvan Kumar came to
The national human rights commission has issued a notice to the director of the central bureau of investigation (CBI) asking him to send an action taken report on the allegations made in the suicide notes of BK Bansal and his son within 72 hours.
The latest labour bureau survey data is bound to leave policy makers worried as the unemployment rate is estimated at 5 percent. The 5 percent figure is at the all India level under the Usual Principal Status (UPS) approach or in ot
The idea of punishing Pakistan for sending terrorists to strike at targets in India was mulled during the UPA rule aft
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India has finally struck, albeit surgically. After the Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attacks in Poonch and Uri on September 11 and 18,
