The Navy Chief issued directions to make INS Brahmaputra seaworthy and combat ready.
'Today we know of many X, Y, and Z persons as urban Naxals but can we call these people as such?' 'No, we cannot because we don't have a legal framework for doing that.'
Planning Commission has submitted a proposal to the finance ministry for raising Rs 70,000 crore
The term of the Deputy Chairman and Members of the Commission is coterminous with that of the Prime Minister and all of them have resigned following the change of government last month after the general elections.
The new body may be headed by the Prime Minister as the chairman position would be ex-officio.
The political storm over foreign consultants in the Planning Commission took a new turn on Wednesday amid indications that experts from the World Bank, McKinsey and ADB
The Planning Commission will bring out a policy paper on the regulatory framework for the infrastructure sector by end of 2004.
The ministry of finance has assured the Planning Commission of at least 15 percent increase in gross budgetary support for 2010-11, over the 2009-10 budget estimates.
"I could say 40,000 Mw is certainly achievable, 60,000 Mw is a possible target but 77,000 Mw looks a bit difficult," said Kirit Parikh, member (energy), Planning Commission. He attributed the apprehension over meeting the capacity addition target mainly to the non-achievement of financial closures of some projects. About 15 per cent -- 12,000 MW -- of the power generation target for the current Plan period has been achieved.
The government will also set up an IIM at Shillong.
Left economists in various committees of the Planning Commission on Tuesday threatened to resign if the government did not reconsider the decision to include foreign experts in consultations for the Mid-Term Appraisal of the Tenth Plan.
Poverty in rural areas declined at a faster pace than in urban cities between 2004-05 and 2009-10, according to the Planning Commission estimates released on Monday.
Oil and gold had accounted for 45 per cent of India's imports bill in 2012-13.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has flagged possible anti-competitive concerns with respect to the proposed USD 8.5-billion Viacom18-Star India merger and has sought detailed responses from the parties concerned, sources said.
The Planning Commission has favoured the early introduction of nationwide value-added tax regime to augment revenues of the states and further restructuring of their costly debt to reduce their interest burden.
Putting the ongoing trial in the 26/11 case in Pakistan into further uncertainty, a judicial commission of that country, that was to record statements of key persons involved in Mumbai attack probe, failed to arrive on its scheduled visit to India on Thursday.
The Planning Commission will finalise in a couple of months a draft on an integrated energy policy, which will include its views on merger of oil public sector undertakings.
Delvin's post-mortem was conducted on Monday and his body handed over to his family. His uncle will take the body to his village in Thiruvananthapuram.
The finance ministry seems to be at loggerheads with the Planning Commission on funding of at least 60 centrally sponsored schemes
International agencies and foreign private companies have their own agendas and are in no way accountable to the Indian people, the Left said.
Attributing the steep hike in petrol prices to declining value of rupee, Planning Commission on Wednesday said it will have immediate impact on the price situation but things will stabilise in the long run.
'Trump's disregard for norms and institutions could prove very costly for America's social fabric.'
This is more than double the money that the state got during the Xth plan.
The Niti Aayog is preparing 15-year vision document that will replace the Five-Year Plan from the next financial year
The CBI has registered a case of alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act against human rights activist Harsh Mander and his NGO, and searched his premises on Friday, officials said.
Political parties and leaders wait with bated breath for the Haryana and Jammu-Kashmir assembly poll results on Tuesday.
Enthused by the estimated 8.1 per cent growth in 2003-04, Planning Commission on Friday said the targeted 8 per cent annual growth during the Tenth Plan period was now within the realms of possibility.
On the complaint of shortage of foodgrain, the minister said lifting of foodgrain by states/Union Territories under TPDS and other welfare schemes has been less than the allocation made to them.
The Planning Commission on Tuesday warned that sector-specific regulators could become 'tension points' between them and the ministries and said there should be a common regulator for transport and energy sectors.
Adani group saw a 55 per cent profit surge in the fiscal year ended March 2024 as the apples-to-airport conglomerate is back on an expansion spree and eyeing a $90 billion capex over the next decade. Emerging from a damning report of a US short seller, which hit market value of its listed companies, Adani group in 2023-24 (April 2023 to March 2024) fiscal focused on containing debt, reducing founder share pledge and consolidating business in core competencies.
"The world economic slowdown will not affect the medium term growth prospects," Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, while addressing the 'TIE Entrepreneurial Summit 2007' in New Delhi on Tuesday. The economy was likely to clock a growth rate of 8.5 to 9 per cent during the current financial year, he said, adding that the gross domestic product growth rate was expected to be 9 per cent during the next three years.
The Planning Commission on Monday said investment in the infrastructure sector in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-12) will be close to the target of $500 billion, thanks to a better-than-expected show by the telecom sector
The Plan panel on Wednesday said it has appointed civil rights activist Binayak Sen, convicted for sedition, on the board of one of its steering committees to give input for 12th Plan (2012-17) on health related issues.
From florists in Ghazipur's phool mandi to sweet shop owners in Old Delhi's Chandni Chowk, the preparations, if not the sales, have already begun.
A day after the pro-reformist Telugu Desam Party government received a drubbing in Andhra Pradesh assembly elections, the Planning Commission on Wednesday cast doubts over levying user charges for providing key inputs to rural farmers.
"The IAF played a vital role in five of the seven phases of the general elections, flying over 1,000 hours in over 1,750 sorties," it said.
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