Power Minister Piyush Goyal on the government's manufacturing push and other key issues.
It could end the payment backlog and improve the revenue flow of discoms, says Piyush Goyal
Solar equipment manufacturing, however, is unlikely to pick up in India as Chinese imports are more cost-effective
There will be a dramatic alteration in the role the Centre and the states will play to shape India's fiscal and economic destiny, report Nitin Sethi and Ishan Bakshi.
The fact that the government has no specific deadline to impose this policy was revealed through a response to an RTI application in February 2017.
Projects to pay for clean up if environmental damage is found
Centre, with states, to change methodology of calculating domestic power rates, set standards for consumer tariffs
In the 2012 election, the BJP's performance was the poorest in Purvanchal, winning only 12 of the region's 112 seats. Will 2017 be different? Will the party ride on Varanasi MP Narendra Modi's charisma?
The research found that 50% of the people were receiving either nothing or less cash than they were entitled in lieu of the subsidised grains that were stopped under the pilots starting from September 2015 till May 2016.
The changes were made to several regulations in a coordinated manner by the environment ministry, the tribal affairs ministry and the mines ministry over a year.
PM extended some old schemes and finally said yes to one that was legally mandated for past 2 years.
Months before 8/11, MP, Haryana probed note ban
'We asked them to withdraw these instructions immediately.
'We said, "If you don't withdraw, we are going to give a call that from tomorrow officers will totally boycott these instructions".'
Powerlooms and a lack of policy have pushed heritage art towards extinction, say Shreya Jai and Subhayan Chakraborty.
The ripples from November 8 may be seen in next year's state budgets.
The second fortnight of September saw Rs 3 lakh crore of time deposits, something unique, followed by liquidation of Rs 1.2 lakh crpre of these right after.
We are certainly for digitisation. I do not have opinion about demonetisation. I still don't, says Bill Gates.
Unlike Ratan Tata's philosophy, Mistry cared about short-term gains. This is a Diwali gift for many
Instructions from the Union rural development ministry to the state officials on the WhatsApp group show that the chat was also used as an off-record avenue for the Union government to pass instructions, which it could not have done through formal channels, keeping the law in mind.
Centre's off-the-record instructions through WhatsApp and a squeeze on funds brought the rural work programme to collapse after a roaring first half of the year.
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