There will be some populist announcements in Budget.
Child labour is an issue in India which must be tackled soon.
Examples of coordinated initiatives.
Clean energy cess to hike cost for power sector.
India has undermined its own credibility.
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.
The former finance minister was in Mumbai to address Congress party's poll rallies.
We need to bring solid waste management into all school curricula in an organised and cohesive manner, suggests Anjuli Bhargava.
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.
How much money the Modi government has already spent and is going to spend on all those foreign trips, muses Sunita Iyer
The success of the government will depend substantially on the quality of its team of key ministers, officials and advisors
'Top actors like Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhiji, had already raised the bar.' 'I hoped that Rajkumar Santoshi would be satisfied with my acting.'
Defence Minister Manohar Parrkar ruled out the possibility of deploying the Indian Army in anti-Naxal operations.
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.
From Swachh Bharat to spearheading the Make in India campaign, the PMO seems to be at the centre of all policies, writes Nivedita Mookerji.
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.
NITI Aayog spent a considerable time on restructuring the setup.
Over 14,000 policemen were deployed across the city for the security of Adityanath.
Arun Jaitley will aim for jumps in other revenue streams for the government.
The BJP believes that the only party still capable of leading a credible challenge against it is the Congress. Please note how BJP campaigners in states where the Congress may count for a cipher or thereabouts, mostly attack the Congress, observes Shekhar Gupta.
This was disclosed at a high-level inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday
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.
These 10 cities have maintained cleanliness throughout
'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.'
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:
Several of Modi's actions reflect political courage.
'Milking poorly performing or easily marketable assets is the way to deliver more money for key programmes,' says T N Ninan.
Budget planners for now have been told to prepare with the assumption that GST will apply from April 1.
At present, 70% of the mobile handsets sold in India are imported.
It includes a session with Gadkari on analysing the initiatives needed to bridge the $1 trillion infrastructure deficit in the country.
Millennials are flocking to places of worship, graveyards and parks, armed with their smartphones, to collect Pokemons.
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.
The superstar's much-awaited film Kabali is set to release on July 22.
An interview with HUL's managing director and CEO Sanjiv Mehta.
Uttarakhand's Kumaon hills are setting new standards in dirt and poor solid waste management, sys Anjuli Bhargava.
'There is economic danger: Not inflation, but a slowdown that feeds an employment crisis,' says T N Ninan.
Here's the full text of address to the nation by President Ram Nath Kovind on the eve of the Republic Day 2022.
The average rating was seven out of 10.
He wondered whether anyone can imagine an economy operating without animal husbandry.
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