Higher oil prices, while not having an impact on Centre's revenues due to fixed tax rate, are pushing up states' sales tax revenue.
While household toilets are only one part of the large challenge for the government, having liquid and solid waste management facilities, along with water delivery across the entire country, is a trickier one.
The environment ministry till May 2014 (still under UPA) ordered that cases like Vedanta's expansion plans need to consult people. But in December 2014, the NDA government reversed this position and in March 2015 the environment ministry extended Vedanta's environmental clearance till December 2018. This it did even while the question of the need for public hearing by projects in different kinds of industrial parks was being contested in the courts. This allowed the company to carry out construction.
The number of management colleges has dropped from 3,609 in 2014-15 to 3,264 in 2017-18.
The highest number of jobs were created in the age group of 18-21 at 1.29 million, followed by 22-25 years of age at 1.12 million during these seven months.
With 103 members belonging to the BJP, the Karnataka assembly will witness a balance it has never seen.
What does election data say about the electoral support the competing parties in Karnataka have? Abhishek Waghmare find out.
Despite the growing clamour from the central government on India turning digital, and banks requesting direct bank account transfer, the state government decided to hand over cheques to the farmers, which can be immediately converted into cash.
T C A Anant, former chief statistician to the government, will soon be heading a panel to decide whether the monthly payroll data released by EPFO, ESIC and PFRDA could replace the quarterly enterprises-based survey on job creation by the labour bureau, the prime minister's office decided last week.
The RBI fell short of pumping Rs 150 billion into the economy at the beginning of 2018-2019.
'The current crisis is a result of a clash between a coercive attempt by the government to justify demonetisation and rising digital transactions against the market and the economy fighting the unexpected pressure from atop.'
Many PSBs are in the process of rationalisation of ATMs
Third of faculty positions vacant. One per cent seats empty. New institutes lag in infrastructure, research.
Four Canadian ministers of Indian origin are traveling with Prime Minister Trudeau.
This could be the reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned tomato, onion, and potato as his government's 'TOP' priority, in an election rally on February 5 in poll-bound Karnataka.
With India set to be the world's most populous country by 2030, there is a growing need to control population through better use of contraceptives, says Abhishek Waghmare.
A fresh scheme is likely to be released in the upcoming Budget
Growth in incomes in the top most slabs have increased substantially compared to (a) previous two years and (b) lower income brackets
Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection, and time lag
The Centre has to bear the maximum burden of borrowing NSSF loans to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore.
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