In an interview with Mihir Mishra and Jyoti Mukul, Nath, who as the commerce and industry minister in the previous United Progressive Alliance government was part of the fire-fighting to minimise impact of the slowdown, says that the current year will be better than the last year.
Social audit of rural jobs scheme promises to empower people with information about how they are being denied the benefits of the schemes meant for them.
The former Indian Airlines pilot won a good deal for colleagues protesting a pay cut; but others question whether the victory was good for the airline.
"The (number of ) people flying business class has seen a decline of over 40 per cent in the domestic routes and 20 per cent internationally," said Ajay Prakash, general secretary, Travel Agents Federation of India.
Launch on 10 sectors in the winter schedule.
After massive cancellations of Jet Airways flights during the five-day strike last week, the private carrier has seen a surge in the number of passengers that it has flown in the last three days - thanks to an aggressive discount of up to 50 per cent on some tickets on all its flights.
The Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry proposes to build a huge network of expressways by 2022, also the final year of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan.The ministry plans to build expressways in 3 phases -- by 2012, 2017 and 2022 -- and, accordingly, it has prepared a draft report for a network of the proposed 17,661-km of stretches.The report has suggested the government set up the proposed expressways on both an annuity and a public-private partnership (PPP) basis.
The B K Chaturvedi committee set up to recommend ways to implement road projects faster and more efficiently, has recommended that the National Highways Authority of India be given sovereign guarantees on the loans it raises from the market.
The government was able to initiate crucial steps in the ministries of rural development, human resource development, home, finance and commerce, thanks to energetic ministers, but did not exactly win laurels on other fronts.
Members protest, rural ministry assures it will not be so hereafter.
Rule 4 in Section 55 of the Land Acquisition Act's Company Rules may help farmers in Dadri but is hardly a guarantee for other cultivators.
India leads with 1,05,000 traffic deaths in a year, compared with over 96,000 in China. Also, in India an estimated two million people have disabilities resulting from a road traffic crash.
The right to food campaign, which is a collaboration of people's movements from across the country, is now on the verge of seeing its demand of a right to food become a reality.
On every Air India ticket booked by agents, the airline pays 3 per cent of the ticket cost as commission. The airlines earns around Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) a year from ticket bookings.
Plans to rake in Rs 900 crore from marketing engineering, cargo & training services.
New Delhi, 7 August A strike call and its withdrawal proved an embarrassment for a former senior aviation bureaucrat.
National Highways Authority of India is working on a proposal to scrap the 30 to 35 per cent premium on toll charged on highways that bypass cities.
National Aviation Company Ltd, which runs Air India, has reshuffled its executive directors and created a new designation of ED (marketing).
According to a survey, of the 190 infrastructure projects facing delays, 70 per cent were delayed due to land acquisition problems. Forty projects by NHAI, 60 being implemented by Indian Railways and 28 power projects are facing difficulties in acquiring land. SLUs would expedite the time taken.
The government's financial restructuring plan for loss-making Air India may include a staggered infusion of equity, entailing an initial infusion of around Rs 1,300 crore (Rs 13 billion), going up to around Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion), depending on the company's need.
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