The allocation in the defence budget is inadequate to meet India's long-term threats, especially from China and Pakistan, says Gurmeet Kanwal.
The Planning Commission has in principle agreed to discontinue seven Centrally Sponsored Schemes out of 80 such schemes recommended by the finance ministry, but has ruled out scrapping other schemes as they pertain to healthcare, education and rural
'There will always be hiccups given that the Namami Gange programme is spread over different sectors and involves several agencies.'
Government looking at cushioning slowdown due to demonetisation with sops and higher outlay for micro, small and medium enterprises, agriculture, and affordable housing.
For most affluent families in Kerala, marriage is reduced to an occasion to flaunt their wealth. Now, the Women's Commission in the state wants marriage expenses to be capped at Rs 6 lakh.
Railways to have functional autonomy, bear salary burden
Enforcement Directorate alleged that he was not cooperating and sought his custodial interrogation.
'At this stage, you should distribute money and food.' 'Like you queue up to vote, let people queue up to collect this.' 'This will arrest the decline in demand which will have a multiplier effect on the demand side for the economy as a whole.' 'The government should earmark about 2% of the GDP for this.' 'And this should be the first step to revive the economy.'
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has no plans to close down any of the media units associated with it despite a recommendation by the Expenditure Reforms Commission.
In a first such action in India's electoral history, the Election Commission had Wednesday ordered campaigning in the nine West Bengal constituencies to end at 10 pm on Thursday, instead of 6 pm on Friday, in the wake of violence between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata during Amit Shah's roadshow.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde has stoked a controversy by his candid admission about spending Rs 8 crore on his 2009 Lok Sabha campaign, with Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil demanding that the Election Commission take cognizance and decide on whether to allow him to contest again.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday alleged that about Rs 6 crore were spent on the roadshow of Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Varanasi and demanded from the district election authorities to register a first information report for violation of the model code of conduct.
There's a 13 per cent increase over last year, in an effort to put its flagging revenues back on track.
The Planning Commission's projections for the 11th Five Year Plan,
The Centre will take a hit of Rs 26,000 crore (Rs 260 billion) in 2005-06 by implementing the twelfth finance commission's proposal of a higher share of central taxes, grant and debt relief to states.
A panel will examine the merits and demerits of various dates for the commencement of the financial year.
The Modi government has not lived up to the muscularity the prime minister promised while campaigning, says Ajai Shukla
Releasing the survey report after taking into account the expert committee recommendations, Statistics Secretary Pravin Srivastava told reporter, "It is a new design and a new matrix. It would be unfair to compare it with the past. This 45- year high is your interpretation. I don't want to claim that it is 45-year low or high."
80% of beneficiaries in 300 districts to be linked with direct benefits transfer
'The EC is a sacred institution.' 'In the last few years, more than once, we have found the EC bending over backwards to accommodate the government.'
Boeing is pressing hard to win the Indian Navy contract for 57 aircraft carrier-borne fighters. It could offer the Super Hornet in the ongoing IAF procurement of 114 medium fighters; its upgraded F-15EX fighter also on the list.
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
Mahesh Vijapurkar is hopeful that two Supreme Court directives and Gopinath Munde's confession that he spent Rs 8 crore to get elected to the Lok Sabha may lead to a possibility that the processes administered by the Election Commission may get cleaner, even if only over time.
Fiscal situation better but spending cuts likely in FY16 too.
The canteens would come up in and around industrial areas, hospitals, educational institutions and commercial hubs.
'An expanding army, rising salaries due to the 7th pay commission, and raised pensions due to OROP are consuming money at the cost of badly needed bulletproof jackets, rifles, artillery, submarines, warships and fighter aircraft,' notes Ajai Shukla.
On the proposed Grand Alliance of the Congress and other parties in the state, Shah said the Telugu people had not forgotten how the Congress had treated their leaders like former (undivided) Andhra Pradesh chief minister Anjaiah and former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao.
At a pre-Budget meeting, the FM was asked to ensure that NBFCs come out of the liquidity crisis they are facing with the help of RBI. They also spoke about the futility of trying to achieve a 3 per cent fiscal deficit target over the medium term.
International Monetary Fund on Friday warned the Centre of high fiscal deficit that could come in the way of sustaining high growth in the economy, which clocked 8.4 per cent rise in the second quarter of 2003-04.
Outlining the Budget estimates for the coming year, the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu put the plan size at Rs 1.21 lakh crore.
Three key babus will make room for a new set of officers to carry the baton of Budget programmes.
As many as 19.31 lakh applications have been registered so far as part of the ongoing summary revision of electoral rolls in Maharashtra and voters would have the opportunity to enrol themselves until the last date of filing of nomination papers, the Election Commission of India said in Mumbai on Tuesday.
