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While India does not figure in the top 10 export destinations for Pakistani goods, it serves as a crucial channel for select goods such as leather hides and cheaper variants of fertilisers that are generally procured by importers at short notice.
The development comes at a time when Eveready is on the lookout for strategic investors, including a possible stake sale in its battery business.
'There is enough proof of science-driven research in the India of early centuries,' argues Kumar Abhishek.
'The PM cannot give a single reason why farmers should trust him.'
As and when the pandemic recedes from these shores, rebuilding the economy will be the biggest challenge for Modi in the remaining three years of his term, observes Virendra Kapoor.
'The real lifting of the economy will happen only if this momentum sustains in the coming months.'
India needs to spread irrigation and do so against a backdrop of rising water scarcity and depleting groundwater resources
Modi said "timing" is very important to deal with any crisis and "decisions taken at the right time have helped a lot in controlling the coronavirus infection in the country".
Vice Chairman Harivansh regretted that 78 hours of business were lost due to disruptions and that the House functioned for only 27 hours.
BC Tripathi, who helms India's largest natural gas marketer and transporter -- GAIL, discusses last-mile connectivity to homes with Jyoti Mukul and Shine Jacob.
However, the growth during the next financial year would be higher at 8.1 per cent in case of a second wave of the coronavirus and bit slower at 7.9 per cent if the virus recedes and remains under control.
PSU divestment, LIC IPO, fiscal deficit: Budget 2021 marks a clear change in the Modi government's stance from fiscal conservatism to growth orientation.
Dollar debt and higher import cost might impact earnings by up to 30%.
The government's subsidy bill on food, fertiliser and petroleum, among others, will fall by about Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion) at Rs 1,11,275 crore (Rs 1112.75 billion) this fiscal, mainly due to sharp reduction in the urea dole outs.
India has flattened its Covid-19 graph and 146 districts have reported no new case of the viral disease in the last seven days, 18 in 14 days, six in 21 days and 21 districts in the last 28 days, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday.
23 trains have been partially cancelled and five short terminated till September 26 as protesters blocked rail tracks at various places, including Amritsar, Ferozepur, Sangrur, Barnala, Mansa and Nabha.
In its manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had criticised the Congress-led UPA regime for "policy and decision paralysis".
Imports too tumbled by 58.65 per cent to $17.12 billion in April from $41.4 billion in the same month last year, according to the data by the commerce and industry ministry.
There are several welcome standalone reforms, but these do not add up to a coherent strategy to achieve a $5 trillion economy or secure Aatmanirbharta, observes Rathin Roy.
India invited fresh bids on Tuesday for a stake of 51 per cent in state-run Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd.
BKS and BMS leaders have told the BJP leadership that it is staring at a build-up of anti-government propaganda in the run-up to polls in five states.
Growth was primarily pushed by a jump in steel and electricity generation, apart from a sustained rise in natural gas output.
Gates, who is also co-chair in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, further said since the issue of climate change is "complicated", different interventions are required to be taken including developing new variety of seeds and their distribution to farmers.
Free provision of food, cash transfers, and jobs in villages see enhanced flow of funds despite a precipitous fall in revenue. Till May, defence spend was nearly 30 per cent less than the previous year.
The Survey lists some of the challenges that might impede India's progress.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Centre on the issue of citizenship of child born in the country out of surrogacy in which biological parents are foreign nationals but birth mother is Indian.
Anil Ambani met Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar, Expenditure Secretary Sanjiv Misra and Fertiliser Secretary J Sreedhara Sarma to drum support against RIL's proposed pricing formula for natural gas from KG-D6 block off the east coast.
A third of FMCG sales and half of motorcycle sales come from the hinterlands
Coal and steel were only two sectors that saw some growth.
As per reports, the ATO raised the tax bill after Pankaj Oswal transferred his shares in Burrup Fertiliser, a company started by him, to his wife in 2007.
India's plan to double gas prices from April threatens to hit government efforts to cut its fiscal deficit.
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With crude oil prices nearing $100 a barrel, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday expressed concern over mounting subsidies in petroleum as also food and fertiliser sectors, with discounts exceeding Rs 1,00,000 crore (Rs 1,000 billion) this year. The prime minister asked his Cabinet colleagues and the Planning Commission to "reflect what these mean for our development options and what development options these subsidies are shutting out".
'It has caused our cook no little mirth that the sahib next door -- who heads a factory with several hundred, or thousand, workers -- can be spotted doing jharoo-pocha,' observes Kishore Singh.
The list mostly contains PSUs which were up for sale in the last fiscal.
ONGC and RIL bill their consumers like fertiliser plants and power stations in US dollar.
