The mergers will not involve any cash but only share swaps
Food to be cooked in base kitchens instead of trains; private players to be involved
Entry of a higher number of technocrats, an appraisal system for civil servants and the benefits of changing the financial year may feature in the PM's fourth speech.
'Look at Mr Modi. He is a part of this new middle class.' 'India has never before seen this kind of social mobility, certainly not since medieval times.' 'As a result, India's entrenched elite, which is a class of people with a strong sense of entitlement, is being tamed,' Sanjeev Sanyal tells Shyamal Majumdar and Arup Roychoudhury.
Global crude oil prices have slumped by 49 per cent during the same period
The upcoming Akshay Kumar starrer Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is set to use toilets of the Indian Railways
Contracts will be given for five years, in a transparent manner
Govt looks to take cooking gas to tiger reserves, Naxal-hit areas
The government is also planning to replace the current ageing Air India One or Boeing 747 with Boeing 777s. Arup Roychoudhury and Archis Mohan report.
India is the third largest consumer of petroleum products, after the US and China.
The Manduadih-Rameswaram Weekly Express tops the list of latecomer trains, with the highest average delay time of 11.5 hours!
Centre might move swiftly on its next round of strategic sales in CPSEs
Bank, bankruptcy reforms, Nabard Bill amendment on agenda.
The previous highest divestment proceeds for the first half of a year was around Rs 21,000 crore in 2016-17.
DEA is currently headed on an interim basis by Corporate Affairs Secretary Tapan Ray
As the BJP snaps at its heels, can the Communists stay relevant in the electoral game?
North Block and Mint Road seem likely to now stick to the earlier convention of the RBI governor coming to Delhi and being the only MPC member meeting the finance minister and senior bureaucrats on pre-policy meetings
Since May 1, the dynamic fuel pricing model has been applied on a pilot basis in 5 cities
A panel led by the secretaries of the DEA and the DIPP would conduct a quarterly review on the pending proposals.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu is targeting the commissioning of the project by 2023-24
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