A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde passed the order while considering the Centre's stand that it is coming out with a comprehensive legislation to deal with air pollution, including the aspect of stubble burning.
The National Health Protection Scheme -- announced by the finance minister -- is aimed at benefiting 10 crore poor families by providing coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year.
Narendra Modi is to hold summit-level meetings with the heads of more than 50 African nations on Thursday.
The NGT directed the Delhi govt not to implement the scheme unless it established that it was not counter-productive.
The government had announced a waiver of over Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) in advances to farm sector as a one time measure in the budget of 2008 following stress in the rural sector.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
While most experts suggest the government loosen its purse strings and not worry about the fiscal deficit in a pandemic impacted year, it will be a tightrope walk for the government to increase spending without going overboard.
The government had raised Rs 10,000 crore through the last domestic black money amnesty.
Interest subsidy to cost Rs 200 cr for the government.
Fertilizer demand is set to get a boost on account of cheaper credit availability to farmers. Reduction in basic customs duty on some water-soluble fertilizers and liquid fertilizers may increase their usage, resulting in a positive impact on revenues and profitability of fertilizer players.
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday termed Narendra Modi administration's scheme to abolish 500 and 1,000-rupee notes as "a monumental management failure".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday targeted Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front over the gold smuggling scam, saying the Communist Party of India-Marxist-led government "betrayed" the people of the state just as Judas did to Lord Jesus for a few pieces of silver.
Rashtriya Janata Dal's Manoj Jha saw the move as an attempt to have a 'committed bureaucracy'.
Even if they score administratively, state governments ruled by the party suffer from an inability to communicate positively, say observers.
A day after being sworn-in, the new ministers took charge of their portfolios. Here's a look at the various new ministers on their first day at work.
Why are investors gung-ho about State Bank? asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Expressing concern over the debt burden on farmers, President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday said the government would restore the health of rural credit system and step up public investment in agriculture.
Observing that the economic recovery was not yet fully entrenched, the RBI Governor said recovery is likely to be gradual.
In a bid to protect farmers from vagaries of nature, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday launched a weather insurance scheme 'Varsha Bima 2005' that will quickly compensate peasants for crop failures and lower yields due to inadequate ra
'Why did government not include a provision in the bills which categorically stated that no crop will be sold below the MSP in the open market?'
That would result in the military under-spending about Rs 80,000 crore over the financial year.
The Nafed has outstanding dues of Rs 224.26 crore (Rs 2.24 billion) as of February 15.
Governments make budgets to retain and consolidate their hold on power, not to please opponents or economists. They do so by trying to gratify as many as possible without causing harm to the others, says Shreekant Sambrani.
There is a clamour for changing land-use from agriculture to commercial, residential or industrial.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of 67th Republic Day urged the nation to reaffirm the unwavering commitment to uphold the ideals of India's Constitution and strengthen the Republic.
Though the government has been pushing for exports of high-value manufactured goods across major markets in place of raw materials and input goods, India's top exports to China remain in the raw materials category.
The PM said a woman's power today underlined inner fortitude and self-confidence, which made her self-reliant.
A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education.
The government has revised the wages for unskilled manual workers under the national rural employment guarantee scheme by indexing it to inflation, Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said.
Barring stray incidents of violence like stone pelting, the shutdown called by the MVA allies Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party was largely peaceful.
According to the ministry's statement, Tomar thanked the BKU (Kisan) leaders for coming out in support of the Farm Acts and said these laws have been welcomed in various states across the country.
'The new ceiling will cover around 93 per cent of all deposit accounts, up from 90 per cent earlier,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'The middle class stood by the BJP, especially after demonetisation, and they expected something in return.' 'Some section of the BJP believes the middle class is condemned to vote for the BJP as they have no other choice.' 'They think they can treat them any way, still the middle class will run to vote for it.' 'That's what the Budget seems to convey.'
Mr Modi must now work to win over the governor as a friend and learn to influence people credibly.
The negative aspect about the Budget is that the capital expenditure has been marginally cut to achieve the fiscal deficit target assumptions, and the onus of sustaining investment demand till private capex revives continues to vest with the public sector enterprises, notes Jyotivardhan Jaipuria.
The initiative would provide double the relief announced by the states of UP and Maharashtra, the Punjab CM said.
The highest water-use efficiency of more than $ 50 per cubic metre is in Oceania, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, Denmark, Finland, and Great Britain while the lowest is in Central and South Asia, including India, at less than $ 10 per cubic metre.
Restoration of the pre-2004 pension scheme, regularisation of contract employees after two years, enhanced daily wages, social security pension and appointment of anti-corruption grievances commissioner were the other promises made in the manifesto.
Lakhs of jobs are at stake.
Kumaraswamy met representatives of farmers groups and progressive peasants to discuss the problems faced by them.
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