Roads and national highways are the lifeline of the country, says Oscar Fernandes.
India's wheat procurement in the ongoing Rabi marketing season has already crossed a record 10 million tonne.
Statistics show the failure of the Bihar government in acting against Naxals in the state who are able to set up bases without much difficulty. Vicky Nanjappa reports
China also said it will continue to share the flood data with India.
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New body to replace Plan panel might retain 40% of existing staff
The Bihar deputy chief minister received 44,000 wedding proposals on a number he had given out for residents to send photographs of bad roads.
Statistics with the ministry of commerce show that China's direct overseas investment had been rising at 66 per cent annually between 2001 and 2005.
India's industrial production shrunk for the third straight month in December, dragged down by weak investment and consumer demand and pointing to continued sluggishness in Asia's third-largest economy.
The only category of pharmaceuticals that showed a negative growth in exports this time was herbal products, exports of which stood at $299 million as compared to $ 312 million in the previous year.
There has been no discussion so far on cutting Plan expenditure, the Planning Commission said on Thursday even as it asked states to maintain fiscal discipline.
However, Beijing expresses readiness for talks to reopen the Nathu La pass for the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra.
India's informal economy and service sector accounts for over three-fifths of its $1.8 trillion economy.
China's growing income gap may trigger social instability after 2010 if the government is unable to mitigate glaring disparity, experts have warned.
China has 467 million cell phone users by the end of January, indicating that one out of three Chinese owned a mobile, latest official statistics showed.
Much of the Q3 data will simply not be available for the CSO to factor in its calculation.
'The killings are a worrisome escalation of tensions, but little is known about the immediate causes or results of the fight in Galwan and it is not possible, at this point, to assign blame'
A panel will examine the merits and demerits of various dates for the commencement of the financial year.
The number of mobile phone subscribers in China has swelled to over 420 million at the end of May, outpacing the fixed line users, the ministry of information industry said on Wednesday.
The sample size of 8,100 farmers across 19 states has not changed in the last three decades, and the methodology of the sample survey too remains unchanged
'We have set out a timetable to reduce income tax rates for all incomes below Rs 50 lakh, and to progressively eliminate the surcharges on income above Rs 50 lakh, by 2024.' The Budget speech past CII president Naushad Forbes wants to hear.
Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday stoked a potential controversy with her remark that all the violence is "male-generated".
Somalia-based Al Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
It was the 12th day in a row that US military planes have approached the mainland coast, the report said.
The government has said it is constantly working towards reviewing the improving the MPLAD scheme.
The high court imposed various bail conditions on him, including that he shall not tamper with the evidence or influence witnesses, directly or indirectly.
Concerned with the continuous downward revision, the EPFO has since last month begun counting people quitting their previous jobs and joining a new one as an addition to the net payroll.
The government on Tuesday projected a higher economic growth of 8.1 per cent for this fiscal from 7.5 per cent in 2004-05, far exceeding expectations of the finance ministry and Reserve Bank of India.
'The leverage created by the Indian military must not be lost.'
Around 50 to 55 lakh job seekers, on an average, annually register with the employment exchanges for over two lakh notified vacancies.
the GDP estimates incorporate new source data and modified compilation techniques
The overall consumer food inflation in August fell to 5.91 per cent as against 8.35 per cent in July
Foreign tourist arrivals in the country have shown a jump between January and April of this year registering a growth of 18.3 per cent.
For example, railways, roads and highways, and shipping could form a section within the Budget as an omnibus transport sector
Faced with the growing number of acid attacks on women, government is planning to categorise such cases as heinous crimes and fix a time-frame for investigation and trial for speedy justice.
