Clean energy cess to hike cost for power sector.
India has undermined its own credibility.
Serum Institute is investing $200 million to create capacities for the COVID-19 vaccine. Sohini Das profiles its 39-year-old CEO.
India will be the global host this year for World Environment Day, with the theme "Beat Plastic Pollution".
The former finance minister was in Mumbai to address Congress party's poll rallies.
'If an election promise has to be credible, silence on practical questions doesn't help matters,' notes T N Ninan.
So let's stop focusing the Modi agenda on India Inc and the capital markets, and let's start focusing on the Modi development agenda for the average Indian.
The success of the government will depend substantially on the quality of its team of key ministers, officials and advisors
How much money the Modi government has already spent and is going to spend on all those foreign trips, muses Sunita Iyer
'Let us hope that this Budget delivers.' 'It needs 10 per cent plus real GDP growth in 2021-22, the rebound year,' notes Omkar Goswami.
'As we gird ourselves for rising infections, India's harsh lockdown remains an epic tragedy,' observes Rahul Jacob.
A century-old company -- that started as an infrastructure provider for large religious gatherings like the Kumbh Mela -- has expanded its role to keeping the premises of such gatherings litter-free.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrkar ruled out the possibility of deploying the Indian Army in anti-Naxal operations.
We need to bring solid waste management into all school curricula in an organised and cohesive manner, suggests Anjuli Bhargava.
The state government on Wednesday slapped a show cause notice Ryan international school for allegedly asking its teachers and students to seek membership of BJP.
Ahead of his government's first full year budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought ideas from economists to attract investments, create jobs and finance infrastructure to put India back on high growth path.
From Swachh Bharat to spearheading the Make in India campaign, the PMO seems to be at the centre of all policies, writes Nivedita Mookerji.
NITI Aayog spent a considerable time on restructuring the setup.
Arun Jaitley will aim for jumps in other revenue streams for the government.
Over 14,000 policemen were deployed across the city for the security of Adityanath.
These 10 cities have maintained cleanliness throughout
This was disclosed at a high-level inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday
'Wherever in the world there is political instability, those countries are beset with severe crises today. But India is in a much better position than the rest of the world due to the decisions taken by my government in the national interest,' President Droupadi Murmu said in her address to both Houses of Parliament.
Several of Modi's actions reflect political courage.
President Pranab Mukherjee addressed a joint session of Parliament ahead of the budget session which began on Tuesday. Here are the highlights of President Pranab Mukherjee's speech:
At present, 70% of the mobile handsets sold in India are imported.
Budget planners for now have been told to prepare with the assumption that GST will apply from April 1.
'Last time, there was an incumbent and a challenger. This year, the roles have been reversed.' 'The challenger is the incumbent and the ones ruling then are now the challengers.' 'So, the realities have changed and so have the electorate's expectations.'
'Milking poorly performing or easily marketable assets is the way to deliver more money for key programmes,' says T N Ninan.
It includes a session with Gadkari on analysing the initiatives needed to bridge the $1 trillion infrastructure deficit in the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, felicitated the medal winners from the recently-concluded Asian Games over a breakfast meeting at his residence and said sportspersons do as much for the country as political leaders.
Millennials are flocking to places of worship, graveyards and parks, armed with their smartphones, to collect Pokemons.
An interview with HUL's managing director and CEO Sanjiv Mehta.
The superstar's much-awaited film Kabali is set to release on July 22.
The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, even as it shrunk the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal by nearly eight percent. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech for 2021-22, announced a total of Rs 2869.93 crore for the ministry, Rs 230 crore less than the last fiscal. Officials said the outlay has been lesser this time as the economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The average rating was seven out of 10.
'There is economic danger: Not inflation, but a slowdown that feeds an employment crisis,' says T N Ninan.
The government's top leadership was happy with Prabhu's Budget.
The threshold limit for deduction of tax at source has been raised for unusual income such as winnings from horse race, commission
