'If in our cities, all urban bus transport services are free, then the taxpayers are paying for it, or if electricity were to be made free, that's a huge cost to the rest of the people'
a nation should ensure that people are compensated adequately for their work by paying the minimum wage.
The Jan-Dhan accounts are zero balance accounts, comes with a life cover of Rs 30,000 per person, and an accidental cover of Rs 100,000. An active user of the account can also get overdraft facility of Rs 5,000 from banks.
They beat David Skoch of Czech Republic and Janette Husarova of Slovakia in their first round match at Wimbledon.
As hard as it is to believe, the impact of information technology is far greater in rural areas than in cities, says a survey on e-governance project by management and ICT consultancy firm Skoch.
Personal computer sales in the country registered a growth of 32 per cent during 2003 at 2.3 million units as a result of sharp fall in computer prices that led to increased sales in small and medium enterprise sector, home and in non-metro cities.
Indian IT industry posted a 21 per cent increase in revenue in the year 2003 at $16.4 billion constituting three per cent of the country's GDP, according to IT consultant firm Skoch.
A 10 per cent drop in current PC prices would increase the demand by 30 per cent, analyst firm Skoch said.
Commenting on economic reforms, he claimed that accord is necessary to achieve these objectives in India.
As per norms these companies should have minimum public float of 10 per cent by August.
Right now there are about 30 lakh (3 million) subscribers under the Swavalamban scheme.
The Reserve Bank and the government has contingency plans to deal with the situation if Greece exits the Eurozone, RBI Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty said on Friday.
With growth rate falling and with inflation continuing to be flat expects a rate cut
His remark came in the backdrop of an Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee postponing a meeting to hike fuel prices indefinitely on Oil Minister Murli Deora's insistence.
Rangarajan also called for improvement in the country's corporate-bond market saying that this will help even small companies to raise adequate funds.
C Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, on Thursday said he expects the Indian economy to grow by 8.5 per cent in FY'12 on the back of services sector and industry expansion, though he hinted that agriculture might not be a big contributor.
Housing regulator, NHB, which is awaiting $ 500 million loan from the World Bank for low cost housing, today said property prices would rise in the next one year, but that would result in correction in these rates in all the metros subsequently.
The gross domestic product grew by 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2009-10 and the year may end with 6.5 per cent.
Former Reserve Bank Deputy Governor S S Tarapore on Thursday said that the apex bank should not lower its repo and cash reserve ratio rates in its forthcoming monetary policy review.
The eighth seeds beat Swiss Yves Allegro and Paul-Henri Mathieu of France 2-6, 6-0, 10-3 in the first round in Miami.
Meanwhile, Leander Paes, with partner Agnes Szavay, advanced to the second round of mixed doubles at the Australian Open.
The Indo-Czech pair defeated Jan Hernych and David Skoch of the Czech Republic in the second round.
'We have done tremendous automation in the stock markets'.
Paes,partnering David Rikl, romped into the second round of the Australian Open doubles tournament. Bhupathi and Joshua Eagle of Australia failed to make it.
Investment on technology by the Indian financial services sector is likely to grow by 20 per cent on an average and the industry is likely to spend Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion) in the next three years.
Leander Paes and Martin Damm have been drawn to take on Tomas Cibulec and David Skoch in the first round of the doubles event at the Chennai Open.
Braving a somewhat stagnant demand for software services in the traditional US market, India's software export revenues registered a 30 per cent rise in dollar terms to cross $8 billion mark in 2002.
The Indian IT market grew 26 per cent year-on-year in 2004 to touch Rs 95,277 crore (Rs 952.77 billion), according to a study by consultancy firm Skoch.
The duty cuts announced by the government on Thursday are likely to result in a price drop of 5-8 per cent, according to the industry.
Capital markets regulator Sebi Chairman U K Sinha advocated the listing of bourses and greater competition among exchanges.
"India's middle class, small traders and farmers are the lifelines of its economic growth. By catering to these ambitions #Budget2019 infuses hopes for millions of dreams."
UIDAI has asked police to investigate, it was not fully convinced about nature of the incident
The economy expanded at a decade-low rate of 5 per cent in the first year of the 12th Plan
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