For the current woes of the state to end, in city after city, town after town, village after village, unauthorised constructions have to be removed, no questions asked, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Stock to watch: Shipping Corporation and Great Eastern Shipping
Though dubbed as the 'war hero', the role of Rajapaksa in ending the conflict with the LTTE with the death of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in 2009 is quite divisive as he stands accused of violating human rights, a charge he vehemently denies.
Data used for the graph and cited elsewhere in the column were obtained from various publications of the RBI.
Smart cities must be very well equipped with technology and security systems alike.
"This is the third year in a row that India makes to top 10 in Doing Business, which is a success which very few countries have done over the 20 years of the project, Without exception, the other countries that have done this are very small, population-wise, and homogeneous," Simeon Djankov, Director of Development Economics at the World bank told PTI in an interview.
The thrust will be on improving connectivity in economic corridors and remote and border areas with a view to hike trade and enable faster movement of cargo.
What does the National Educational Policy 2020 mean for students, parents and teachers?
'India needs to adopt a more proactive policy of triggering exports to China.'
Domestic investors have managed very well to minimise the impact caused by relentless selling by foreign portfolio investors.
The surge in deal value is largely due to the $12.9 bn Essar-Rosneft deal
100 smart cities to become a reality as Cabinet approves the project, earmarks Rs 100 trillion for the purpose.
This Budget plans for an increase to 10.3% of GDP from 9.9%.
Soft oil prices are expected to persist in 2015 and will be accompanied by significant real income shifts from oil-exporting to oil-importing countries.
Cities are setting the rules that now carry life and death implications for their residents, and most of these rules are sought to be set by the municipal authorities who have never wielded such power, reports Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
Both Mahinda Rajapaksa and Modi have learnt from their past mistakes. Modi has understood that Rajapaksa is a 'forever politician' that India has to live with, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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Foreign investment cap in insurance sector raised to 49 per cent.
Raghuram Rajan optimistic about passage of GST
'Chinese dominance reduces India's influence in South and Southeast Asia and erodes its status globally.' 'For a country striving to create a multipolar Asia, it would be a serious setback,' says Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Analysts attribute this outperformance to the government's proactive economic reform measures
The members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar.
Some developers point out that what comes in the way of low-cost housing is the sky-high price of land
'Here is a man who can steer the country out of the woods. That sense of hope towards Modi was already there. And now that he has actually visited this region, it will go to the next level.' Zafar Sareshwala, a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, shares his impressions about the PM's historic visit to the United Arab Emirates.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoys a close relationship with Shinzo Abe. For Abe, "a strong India is in the best interest of Japan, and a strong Japan is in the best interest of India."
Low consumer demand, a slide in investments and troubles in the banking sector should prompt the government to recalibrate taxes and expenditure. It is also important to ramp up spending on health care and education, says CII president Sumit Mazumder.
'Jaitley should get the GST and multi- brand retail bills passed to achieve 9%+ growth.'
New York raised the curtain on its new $1.4 billion transit station in lower Manhattan on Sunday, a long-awaited connection between the World Trade Center site and the rest of the city more than 13 years after terrorist attacks ravaged the area.
Official talks were held between Modi and Seikh Tamim for multi-sectoral partnership and strengthening of Indo-Qatar ties following which the agreements and Memorandums of Understanding were signed on the second day of the Prime Minister's visit.
Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.
'There is no Buddha or Gandhi among countries, existing for the service of others; they all exist for the good of themselves.' 'For each country, its own interests should be paramount, and it is futile and churlish to expect China to be an exception to this rule,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant and long-time China-watcher.
Drishti, an affordable eye care chain has lit up the lives of scores of people in rural areas.
'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.' 'Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.' 'What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?'
Emphasising that revival of growth should be the number one priority of the RBI at this time, industry groups said apprehensions about inflation rearing its head again may prove to be misplaced.
The sector is witnessing weak tendering.
The deal, part of the Jaypee Group's plan to cut Rs 60,000-crore debt, follows months of negotiations.
While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
'National assets, created over the years through tax-payers's money, should not be handed over to business houses at throwaway prices.'
New Delhi can strengthen its leverage by having better relations with the two than they have with each other.
A government that confuses PowerPoints for policy is delaying structural change too much.
'India is the number one IT destination in the world as we have the largest number of IT professionals in the world.'
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