From a teledensity (number of phones in use for every 100 individuals) of just 1.4 per cent in 1995, India today has reached a teledensity of over 50 per cent, with big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, etc going up to 130-140 per cent, same as in Europe and North America.
'We should not forget the core purpose of the lockdown -- to buy time to implement a strategy to tackle the virus, to prepare for the final lifting of the lockdown and to prepare for a 'new tomorrow',' notes Dr Sanjeeth Peter.
Telecom regulator Trai on Wednesday released draft recommendations on rural telephony for overcoming various constraints coming in the way of increasing telecom penetration in rural India.
Jayaraj gets back into his groove with this Malayalam film.
The government on Tuesday said there would be no slippage in indirect tax collection on account of drought nor is it considering any tax cuts.
HMSI is the biggest player in scooter market with a share of 60 per cent
The upcoming Akshay Kumar starrer Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is set to use toilets of the Indian Railways
Money allocated for rural India has increased, but expenditure of panchayats is not adequate and inconsistent
The Unique Identification Authority of India may take all 10 fingerprints, besides an eye scan, of all residents in rural India to avoid loss of physical identification due to harsh working conditions.
'One week after the release of PINK, audiences in India will witness another strong feminist tale, this one set in rural India,' says Aseem Chhabra.
With a decelerating economy that weakens India's hands on geopolitical issues, it will be interesting to know which way this trip will go.
'The feeling is that Rajinikanth is pro-Modi than anti-Modi.'
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Gujarat's Amul bagged the top slot with 7.2 per cent share, followed by Mother Dairy and Britannia Industries.
The overall poverty figure is 37 per cent and not 27 per cent as was estimated in 2004.
The Direct Taxes Code suffers from serious weaknesses.
Shriya Rangarajan has come a long way from the comforts of the western world.
GE India, the $2.8 billion industrial giant, plans to invest $6 billion till 2015 in medical systems, services and IT tailor-made for rural India. Also, GE, the parent company, is looking at making India the sourcing hub for aerospace parts and healthcare products and is in the process of developing a supply chain for this.
Nothing is going to dramatically open up on May 3. There will be too many ifs and buts and terms and conditions and guidelines in leading one's life in various zones, reveals Sheela Bhatt.
Predictions of below normal monsoon rains have poured cold water on the bullish growth plans of fast-moving consumer goods companies, which have continued to show robust growth of 17-18 per cent in the face of rising input costs and the economic downturn.
We trace the actress as she shoots for her new film in North India.
Rural and urban regions present different labour participation and employment levels. These differences also are not tuned to India exploiting its demographic dividend, says Mahesh Vyas.
Industry leaders and policymakers pin their faith on a multi-faceted approach that includes education and vocational training. Achieving inclusive growth is India's biggest challenge and the best way to achieve it is through developing peoples' skills, said Commerce Minister Kamal Nath. The biggest concern was bringing the 600 million rural people living in rural India into the mainstream, he added.
'There are 25 million farmers in India with at least 2 to 3 cows each.' 'If all them use biogas to cook, millions of LPG units and firewood can be saved.'
Enabling the online booking and payment for Indian Railway tickets is one such case. Amitabh Pandey's book is about how he went about enthusing teams inside the Indian Railways and facilitating online reservations, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
On a trip to India, Michael Viser confronted thirst, and decided to do something about it. Preeti Balakrishnan reports on a project that provides life, one drop at a time
The five-year Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana, with the aim of reaching power to 1,25,000 villages and 2,34,000 BPL families, was started in April 2005, but only 61,360 villages could be electrified till last month. To achieve the RGGVY target, the government will have to electrify more than 63,000 villages in about a year, which is a tall order.
'Savarkar was the closest the RSS had to a freedom movement icon, however flawed.' 'Indira Gandhi wasn't going to gift him to them.' 'And a non-career politician like Dr Singh understands it.' 'It is just that his party never listened to him,' says Shekhar Gupta.
On July 16, 1991, the world's first hospital on a train chugged out of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on its maiden journey. Twenty-six years later, the Lifeline Express (also called Jeevan Rekha Express) continues to take a multitude of medical services, from major surgeries to dedicated cancer treatment, to the people of India.
From 17 pre-school centres to 285 in less than five years - Hippocampus has brought the joy of learning to kids.
Kejriwal believes in good governance and takes pride in his Hindu identity, points out Sudhir Bisht.
In urban India, the fall in rice consumption was 0.2 kg per person per month.
The Indian economy may grow at 7.2 per cent this fiscal on the back of improvement in consumer sentiment, policy reforms and projected growth in agriculture and industrial sector, a Assocham survey said.
If everyone had decent meaningful jobs, the rally maidans would be largely empty and, save for the Akhara babas and curious foreigners and the devout senior citizens, not very many would spare time for the Kumbh Mela, says Mahesh Vyas.
High economic growth rates have failed to improve food security in India leaving the country facing a crisis in its rural economy, the United Nations World Food Programme warned.
With equity and commodity exchanges allowed to enter each other's areas from October, brokerages are pump-priming their businesses to allow their clients seamless trading in commodities and equities.
Anjuli Bhargava discovers how the Buddha Fellowship is attracting India's brightest minds to solve its problems.
Several recommendations of the various law commissions on repealing of obsolete laws, including the Official Secrets Act, have failed to elicit a positive response from the government in an exercise over which crores of rupees were spent during the past ten years.
Chief statistician T C A Anant says growth figure might go up once indirect tax data is fully in, however, he agrees that private expenditure is yet to pick up
Working tirelessly even on his last day, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam had planned a surprise assignment for the students of IIM Shillong on finding innovative ways to end disruption in Parliament.
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
