'We are facing a crackdown for more than a year. Our permission to collect funds was cancelled. Our bank accounts were frozen.' 'We believe that our work in India is very important. We want to be the environment watchdog. We do not want to waste time fighting legal battles.'
India loses 333 acres of prime forest every day. Instead of working to conserve India's forests and water resources, the environment minister has set up a committee to 'dismantle' the five key laws that provide environmental protection.
Imports too contracted by 28.72 per cent to $31.16 billion. Dip in exports and imports narrowed the trade deficit -- the difference between imports and exports -- in March to $9.76 billion, the lowest in the last 13 months.
Move aimed at boosting retail investor participation in disinvestment.
The government will announce minimum support prices for kharif.
Muzzling NGOs is unbecoming of a democracy. Self-confident democracies encourage, indeed applaud, the involvement of citizens' associations, including NGOs, in social and political decision-making and development planning. Instead, our paranoid government bullies and terrorises them, says Praful Bidwai.
The centre's promise of a new deal for the states is a welcome development.
The government has only taken a pause and more measures will be announced in the days to come to help sectors hit by the coronavirus outbreak and also to make India 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the government has taken several steps to mitigate the hardships of the people due to lockdown and support growth, Thakur told PTI in an interview.
Rahul Khullar's guiding credo was that a civil servant must never lose sight of his client: The little guy. The evil men are those who are decision-makers but abdicate their responsibility of taking decisions, leading people to lose confidence in public institutions.
Divestment in PFC, REC, NHPC, Nalco, Hindustan Copper and NMDC could be considered
The Prime Minister will formally launch the Rashtriya Kaushal Vikas Yojana and the National Skills Mission on July 15
Participants will watch out for the Brexit poll outcome in the late morning trades tomorrow.
Initially it will procure only e-rickshaws and e-autos for leasing to operators
India as a large country should have inter-modal connectivity, which will help us make travel easier, safer and seamless. That is how you will also gain. You will gain more money, make more revenues, says Praful Patel.
The power minister briefed the investors on various steps undertaken by the government.
The railways is expecting a revenue of Rs 1,84,820 crore during the current financial year (FY17).
Inputs by the Petroleum Ministry were found among stolen documents.
This kind of growth will turn India into a $8 trillion economy.
The Finance Ministry has called a meeting of heads of public sector banks to clear stalled projects.
The idea is to boost household savings and turn more of them into growth capital. If the plan succeeds, sustained eight per cent-plus rates of gross domestic product growth should be within reach in a few years.
India is experiencing jobless growth and skepticism abounding that the country may not be able to cash in on its demographic bonus
Railway Budget has not discriminated against any state.
The prime minister is likely to talk about its possible extension.
The FM should quietly get the oil companies to offload the shares in the market and pocket the gains
Bank shares were the top losers after sharp gains last week.
The problem is so severe that multiple agencies have issued several precautionary measures.
Indian Railways has to up investment to strengthen network just like China and Russia.
Sensex was up 184 points at 25,580 and the Nifty added 71 points to end the day at 7,654
Amid anti-Telangana agitations impacting power supplies in Andhra Pradesh, the Union Power Ministry has set up a special team to monitor the functioning of electricity grid the state.
In the near term, the key driver will still be the government's fiscal spending.
These refineries, commissioned mostly in the 1950s and 1960s during India's early industrialisation push, are inefficient and costly to maintain compared to their modern counterparts on the coast mainly operated by private companies.
On the revenue front, the finance ministry was expecting higher proceeds from non-tax revenue.
A brief report card on Modi's ministers.
In the four-paragraph letter, Jaitley said he had orally informed Modi about his desire not to be a part of the new BJP government to enable him to concentrate on treatment and health.
How on earth did Dr Manmohan Singh and his ministers conclude that the casualties of a disaster in a nuclear plant would be fewer than the deaths and injuries caused by the Bhopal gas tragedy? And that the compensation could, therefore, be capped at a smaller amount, asks T V R Shenoy.
'Reports in a section of media regarding Union Minister Shri Arun Jaitley's health condition are false and baseless. Media is advised to stay clear of rumour mongering,' Government Spokesman Sitanshu Kar tweeted.
Weak monsoon forecast rekindled fears of higher inflation.
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The trade deficit makes up an important part of the current account deficit, which had touched an all-time high of 4.8 per cent in 2012-13.
'If you weed out corruption, you will bring glory to Goa.'
The defence ministry has lost sight of what it intended to achieve -- which was to nurture private defence firms that would compete on equal terms with the 9 defence PSUs and the 41 Ordnance Factory Board factories.
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