A total of 1,203 candidates, including 109 women, are contesting for the 140 assembly seats in which a total of 2.61 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.
The 30-share Sensex closed up 34 points at 27,831 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 15 points at 8,356.
New Delhi is quietly reclaiming its space in Asia by forging alliances with China's neighbours. In a way, India is converting its much-talked about Act East Policy to Engage East practice.
RBI is likely to have reached broadly similar conclusions since it did cut rates, presumably to stimulate activity.
The Bombay Hemp Company offers goods fashioned out of hemp, the lesser known cousin of ganja.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said that government will introduce teaching of Bhagavad Gita in schools across the state from coming academic session.
Indian Railway's sustenance, freight traffic, - which accounts for about 70 per cent of its revenue - has been plateauing of late.
The 'context' of the launch of GSAT-15 highlights that India has much ground to cover in the transponder arena while in satellite navigation arena ISRO's progress has been satisfactory, says Ajey Lele.
'There has definitely been a breakthrough in the nuclear logjam. It is good to see nuclear energy back on the rails,' says Dr Anil Kakodkar, former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
In the last financial year, GDP growth was 7.3 per cent.
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'For investors who are willing to remain invested for two - three years, there exist quite a few good opportunities.'
Sensex, Nifty put up a good show in closing trade.
The vehicle will not be available until end-2017, or later.
A brief report card on Modi's ministers.
A Priority Foreign Country is a status reserved for those nations that are the most egregious violators of intellectual property rights and have the most negative impact on US competitiveness abroad.
So far, major emitters are far from curbs on emissions on a scale outlined by the IPCC.
These 10 cities have maintained cleanliness throughout
A raise in the I-T exemption limit has been sought by many.
'We are facing a crackdown for more than a year. Our permission to collect funds was cancelled. Our bank accounts were frozen.' 'We believe that our work in India is very important. We want to be the environment watchdog. We do not want to waste time fighting legal battles.'
India and the US should not get into any lengthy investigations for business related concerns.
Some time before December 31, 2017, Bengaluru based Team Indus aims to land a vehicle on the moon.
'The India-France relationship has been that of the elites of two countries, who appreciate each other's philosophical traditions -- whether it is ancient Indian civilisation and Sanskrit texts or the French tradition of Rene Descartes, Albert Camus, (Jean-Paul) Sartre... This is a drawback. It doesn't create the buzz, the excitement necessary for a relationship. We need more people-to-people contact, especially among students,' says former Ambassador to Paris, Rakesh Sood.
Her project aims to clean waste water by flowing through different layers of corn cobs which is a cost-effective and simple technique of cleaning water.
The processes that create a seven per cent-plus GDP growth rate without a similar growth in jobs are far from fully understood, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Piyush Goyal is leading a delegation to deliberate with Australia.
Even if they score administratively, state governments ruled by the party suffer from an inability to communicate positively, say observers.
Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday.
'Whichever option India chooses, it should be clear to the government that the China-Pakistan nexus poses a clear and present danger to national security,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
India's nuclear establishment is continuing its march of folly at the expense of safety in the false belief that atomic power is the energy of the future. It's not. Nuclear power is in relentless global decline, says Praful Bidwai.
'The transmission sector is going to be the next sunrise industry.'
'When George Bush Senior decided in 1992 that India and the United States must start talking in this-now-changed world, who would have thought that 10, 15 years down the road, we will start looking at each other as strategic partners?'
'I bow to the 125 crore citizens of this great nation and promise to stay true to the trust they have bestowed on me.'
India's breakthrough in countering a 'dirty bomb'.
Flaring of tempers comes atop much simmering trouble on clashing views; these stands might now get frozen.
Both countries will advance maritime security and strengthen disaster response in the region, says Modi.
Analysts say it is a case of over-promise and under-delivery.
Rejecting Congress' charge that projects he has been inaugurating in recent months were all started during their time, he said, as prime minister, he would have been happy if the projects were completed 15 years back and led to creation of jobs.
It emphasised that agricultural infrastructure needs considerable investments and hence Section 80IA benefits must be extended to all such investments like IT infrastructure, computers, VSAT, solar panels, water harvesting facilities, storage etc.
Modi government has to come up with a robust economic agenda to impress the masses.
