Lower interest rates needed to boost manufacturing, officials say.
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
A total of 27,920 people have been cured of the disease with 1,685 in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery rate to 34.06 per cent, the ministry said.
Kerry is scheduled to head to India later this month for the fourth annual US-India Strategic Dialogue.
Indians want change and progress. They should be willing to accept tough decisions, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
If the real economy is indeed looking up, then it no longer needs hand-holding and fiscal laxity
If we have to develop this nation, says Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, it can only happen in a public-private partnership, when you and we work together as one.
'We will be voting keeping in mind the brunt we bore because of demonetisation and high GST rate'
China tops the list with 3.5 million, followed by Brazil with 918,000.
Indian Railways to bring on board ready-to-eat food companies
Some of the policy measures announced are expected to go a long way in removing current challenges on financing faced by businesses and also increasing economic activity, especially in areas of construction and manufacturing.
'This market is very expensive in some pockets, dirt cheap in some, and the belly of the market is reasonably valued.'
'Is standing in a queue any bigger sacrifice than that of a soldier's family?'
The two countries want to broaden and deepen their economic and commercial ties as well as strengthen bilateral national security partnership.
The key proposals from the IT industry that were not addressed included removal of dual levies on software products
Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised a conducive environment for manufacturers, including a discrimination-free tax system
Foreign Direct Investment into India rose by 13 per cent in 2020, boosted by interest in the digital sector, and while fund flows "declined most strongly" in major economies such as the UK, the US and Russia due to the Covid-19 pandemic, India and China "bucked the trend", the UN has said.
'In difficult times as now, the call of the village is all that these migrants can hear,' observes Vijaya Pushkarna.
Some of the key proposals of the agenda relate to transforming the banking sector, addressing agrarian distress, countering hate crimes and discrimination, and spurring employment generation.
22 companies won bids for the 31 contracts on offer; 15 were new entrants to the oil and gas business. Three years on, none of them have started production.
Customers won't shift to electric cars until there is countrywide infrastructure for charging stations, which should be as spread out as petrol pumps now. Two, the price of the lithium ion battery, which constitutes 30 to 40 per cent of the cost of an electric car, has to fall substantially, so that the vehicle is as affordable as a gasoline one.
Chandrasekaran, who is the co-recipient of this year's USIBC Global Corporate Leadership Award, also said it is possible to have a limited deal between India and the US before the elections there in November if both sides work together to get something done and not try to solve all issues at once.
Mandatory prescription of generic names is not a complete solution. Rather, in the absence of a range of approaches, it could mean passing the choice of selecting a drug from a doctor to a pharmacist, says Chandrakant Lahariya.
The electric vehicle market in India needs a policy push that goes beyond targets, says Vandana Gombar.
After talks between the King and President Kovind, the two sides inked three pacts providing for cooperation in polar science, innovation and research and in maritime spheres.
The PM said Japan and the Indian diaspora has a big role to play in India's growth story.
Ministries such as road transport and heavy industries are learnt to have objected to NITI Aayog's attempts to become an implementing body for the EV programme.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc has tied up with Taiwan's Foxconn to start assembling phones in India.
Reliance is leveraging the technological change of building a virtualised 5G network which would see the current hardware-dependent networks shift to software-centric platforms.
Regardless of how the stalemate ends, the government needs to learn that regardless of its parliamentary strength it cannot take people for granted. A little bit of humility would do it a lot of good, recommends Virendra Kapoor.
The new numbers clearly had very different implications.
Recent easing of restrictions does not address the pain in the sector.
World Cup organisers have gone to great lengths to keep unaffiliated firms out of sight, such as concealing the brand names on the front and back of LG television monitors in the press facilities with black tape.
Niti Aayog's plan to create a 'New India' in less than four years should invite scepticism, argues T N Ninan.
Even as India and China give final touches to a joint study group report on enhancing trade ties, the domestic industry, especially the electronics sector, is facing an unprecedented threat from Chinese imports.
The decisive election victory for the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance has created a conducive environment for policy actions and should help in economic recovery, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Tuesday.
Expressing confidence about his party coming back to power in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP chief Amit Shah said that his party will rule the country for the next 50 years.
It had requested the government to grant it 15 years of duty-free import of components to assemble its iPhones in the country, sharing a road map to slowly indigenise products.
'Nirmalaji's Budget announcements have long-term implications and are not backed by enough money when the short-term outlook looks bleak,' notes T N C Rajagopalan.
More lucrative routinely prescribed drugs are at higher risk of failing quality standards
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