Over 70 scientists, environmentalists, and former bureaucrats are urging the Indian government to reconsider the Great Nicobar Island project, citing environmental and social concerns.
India will need to grow at an average 7.8 per cent to become a high-income country by 2047, a World Bank report said on Friday. To achieve this goal India would require reforms in financial sector as well as in land and labour market, the World Bank said in its India Country Memorandum titled 'Becoming a High-Income Economy in a generation'.
It will be interesting to see what shifts have been recorded in the last decade-and-a-half -- from the effects of demonetisation and Covid's second wave to the drop in fertility and increase in farm workers -- but we will only know this if and when the Census is conducted, points out Aakar Patel.
The project involves development of a military-civil, dual-use airport; international container trans-shipment terminal; a gas, diesel, and solar-based power plant, and a township.
India ranks 83, among 166 countries, in spending on mobile rates
If the corruption issue doesn't claim Mr Baghel, the Congress's chances in the assembly election later this year are good, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Per capita income is a crude indicator of the prosperity of a country.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh also asked the RBI to make public details of FDI inflows from Cayman islands since demonetisation.
Human Development -- a measure of a nation's health, education, and average income -- has declined for two years in a row.
The Gross National Income (GNI) at 2011-12 prices is now estimated at Rs 112.13 trillion as against Rs 112.14 trillion estimated earlier for 2015-16.
China's gross domestic product (GDP) accounted for 9.5 per cent of the world's total in 2010, ranking second in the world, but its per capita gross national income (GNI) lagged behind 124 countries.
Bhupesh Baghel said about his father that he respected his father as a son, but as a chief minister, none of his mistakes that will disturb public order can be ignored.
Rediff Labs compared the happiness levels of each country with its Human Development Index and its Peace Deficit Index.
However, 63 per cent Indians were "satisfied" with their standard of living
India also fares poorly on maternal mortality rate.
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The creation of the High Level Political Forum was one of the key decisions of the Rio+20 Conference.
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