Speaking to the Indian community, he asked them to join the campaigns launched by Prime Minister Modi such as 'Digital India', 'Startup India, Stand up India', 'Clean India Mission', 'Smart Cities' etc.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday left for Italy to attend the G-8 summit in L'Aquila.Before his departure, Dr Singh said he would project India's views on major global issues related to the world economic and financial crisis."During my visit, I will discuss several issues relating to the world economic and financial crisis and its impact on development, food and energy security, climate change, international trade negotiations and reform with G-8 leaders," he said
Confidence Uwazuruike came to Mumbai a few weeks ago to cover the Great Indian Election Tamasha. On this wishlist was to see Priyanka in flesh and blood. His wish came true this week, but not quite in the way he wanted it to be.
Reforms in the Board of Control for Cricket in India will not pull the cash-rich body back, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday and made it clear that it does not intend to reduce the popularity of the BCCI or hinder its growth but wants structural reforms which would make the cricket body more transparent.
Currently, 100 per cent FDI is permitted in brownfield pharma firms through clearance from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board.
This is lower than the country's growth rate of 6.7 per cent for the financial year 2008-09.
The US has downsized world's rice production by 15 million tonnes following an estimated decline in output of an equal quantity of the grain in India possibly due to drought.
SlumDog Millionaire has won over the Western audiences with its 'fairy tale in a Mumbai slum' storyline but back home the film has opened up a heated debate about the stereotyped representation of India and Mumbai in the Western films.
In a statement, the world body said policy measures to stimulate Indian economy and a good harvest should support domestic demand. After last year's record of 9.2 per cent of GDP, the IMF said the capital inflows are expected to decline this fiscal year. Till December 2008 portfolio investment recorded a $11 billion outflow.
China on Wednesday welcomed India's plans to grant visa-on-arrival facility to Chinese tourists, but did not commit to a reciprocal gesture for Indians visiting the country in large numbers.
Wellness tourism is travel for the purpose of promoting health and well-being through physical, psychological, or spiritual activities.
The government had projected the GDP growth to be at 8.5%.
Supported by slightly stronger global growth, improving export competitiveness and implementation of recently approved investment projects, India's growth is expected to recover from 4.4 per cent in 2013 to 5.4 per cent in 2014, the IMF said.
A McKinsey & Company report also said organised retail was expected to grow from the current 5 per cent to 14-18 per cent of the total retail market in 2015. It added that retail in India could be profitable but not with 'cut and paste' global formats. The greatest challenge would be to maintain the organisation's focus on profitability while cultivating flexibility.
The country's economic growth hit a decade low of 5 per cent in the last fiscal on account of poor performance in the farm, manufacturing and mining sectors.
Projects worth over $20 billion, ranging from the decade-long Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline to various oil and gas exploration and production projects, are being re-considered, said officials in the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Russia could launch cooperation with India in building fast-neutron nuclear reactors, if sanctions against New Delhi were lifted, the top Russian nuclear agency said.
However, India's economy will rebound to 8.5 per cent in 2009-10, Manila-based Asian Development Bank said in its Asian Development Outlook 2008. Narhari Rao, Principal Economist with India Resident Mission of ADB, said recent duty cuts by the government to arrest inflation, which is racing towards 7 per cent, are likely to show results in 2-3 weeks.
These ambitious projects are littered with every possible acronyms and include proposed road links, air connectivity plans, electricity grids and special economic zones on coasts, says Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
The Reserve Bank's annual monetary policy will moderate inflation without hurting growth, while providing relief to small housing loan borrowers, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday.
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For 2015-16, IMF pegged India's growth rate at 7.5 per cent.
The government must urgently clean up the cobwebs of misdirected ideology relating to health insurance
This remark is in consonance with RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan's comment.
Creation of 115 million non-farm jobs over next decade critical to sustaining growth, says McKinsey
The airline will induct four more Dreamliners next year to complete order of 27 of these aircraft
India has consistently asked China to open up its market for IT and pharmaceuticals.
Home minister says anyone trying to disturb communal harmony will not be spared.
Alstom Power President Phillippe Joubert told reporters the Salt Lake facility would supply high-value engineering skills to projects executed not only in India, but also in North America and Europe. \n
We should improve the business climate in Mumbai and Delhi, and India's ranking would immediately shoot up, says Bibek Debroy, a full member of NITI Aayog.
India has become the second biggest borrower in Asia Pacific by borrowing over $3.7 billion for project financing since the beginning of 2006, taking a big jump from its 10th position last year.
Rain gods may be kinder; revenue collections going up: Jaitley
Diwesh Sharan, a deputy director general of ADB, says beside the PPP model and viability gap funding, there is a 3rd option - value capture - to raise funds for India's ambitious infrastructure projects.
Environment ministry has given its go-ahead to POSCO's planned steel plant in the country, but has asked it to spend on "social commitments", a company spokesman said, raising the project's cost by $600 million to $12.6 billion.
ADB projected China's growth to decelerate from 7.4 per cent
"Looking forward to a wonderful day," Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets before he leaves Colombo. G Sudhakar Nair/PTI reports from Anuradhapura
Over a month after calamity hit Uttarakhand, the state government has finally prepared a roadmap for clearing tonnes of debris left over by the destruction at Kedarnath and extricating bodies still trapped underneath the rubble at the Himalayan shrine and adjoining areas.
India's growth, he said, remains resilient with low inflation, fiscal prudence and low current account deficit, talking about robust structural reform measures.
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