Indian aluminium producers are one of the lowest cost producers in the world, which is a significant advantage.
The announcement declaring New Delhi Municipal Council a winner of the smart city challenge came when the rest of Delhi was drowning in urban waste.
The challenge for politicians is that the continuous electoral cycle favours short-termism and the loan waiver type of policy, whereas prosperity requires hard decisions where commonly held perceptions must be disrupted and over-turned, says Dhiraj Nayyar.
The First Advance Estimates of National Income, 2016-17 did not reflect the impact of demonetisation, effected on November 9 and are based on sectoral data for only seven months to October.
China's gross domestic product rank dropped to number 7 from number 6, while GDP per capita jumped one place to 110th rank from 111th rank, International Monetary Fund has said.\n\n\n\n
Sachin P Mampatta goes back in time to recall a deluge that that has passed into lore in Kerala.
'While we may aspire to be a democratic if smaller version of China, we may only manage to become a larger, more accomplished Indonesia,' says T N Ninan.
Instead of targeting global imbalances per se, the narrative must change to the structure and direction of such asymmetries.
Both protesters and the authorities in Hong Kong are using complex combinations of technology, reports Devangshu Datta.
While India ranks 60, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the US and UK retained their top spots as the most-innovative countries. China is at 22nd spot.
The Planning Commission on Thursday unveiled a Vision 2020 document envisaging 100 per cent literacy, no unemployment and poverty and quadrupling the per capita income of the country by 2020 saying.
'Milking poorly performing or easily marketable assets is the way to deliver more money for key programmes,' says T N Ninan.
The expectation that Mr Modi would be a major reformer, capable of reinvigorating the Indian economy, were based on a complete misreading of both his actions and his performance as Gujarat chief minister, says Mihir S Sharma.
Bihar's demand for electricity was assessed at 2,994 MW
India's per capita external debt at the end of March this year stood at Rs 4,556 and total external debt rose to $112.6 billion in June.
Past experience shows loan waivers benefited only 30% of India's farmers; here again, the richer cultivator skimmed the cream, leaving very little for his poorer brethren.
That is the number for job creation that India needs to achieve, argues T N Ninan.
SBI data shows the per-capita payouts for scheme have shot up this year.
'There is an insistence that the government bring about reforms if India is to succeed. The fact is that many nations have done reforms, but are not Great Powers,' says Aakar Patel.
'The Indian State needs to focus on healthcare, education, infrastructure and law and order, and get out of all these regulatory cholesterols.' 'Then, India will fly.'
With adoption of the new method the size of China's economy last year was about $130 billion larger than previously estimated.
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The number of poor in the country declined to 27 crore (270 million) in 2011-12, from 40.74 crore in 2004-05, Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla said on Wednesday.
Water from as many as 78,508 rural habitations is contaminated by arsenic, fluoride, iron or nitrate, finds out Chaitanya Mallapur/IndiaSpend.com.
The infrastructure sector received a huge facelift in the last nine years with improvement in road and railway networks, power generation and teledensity, among others, says the UPA government's report card.
Is Hyderabad the reason Telangana wants separation from Andhra Pradesh? Or has perceived backwardness of the Telangana region fuelled demand for a separate state? Mayank Mishra reports
Although the first woman to hold the position of chief economist at IMF, it would be wrong to see her appointment through the lens of gender
Walmart is rumoured to be looking to listing Flipkart in a few years. At that stage, we'll get a better sense of what's going on in retail, says Devangshu Datta.
The IMF chief listed three key policy areas for women's empowerment as the education, getting a job and having a family.
Americans are lucky they have inherited the innovations of the past.
Israel is very good at creating innovation engines, India less so.
In July, the Planning Commission said that the number of people living below poverty line has come down both in rural as well as urban areas.
'The only way to create more jobs is to make sure that we anticipate the skills that will be required in the future and prepare ourselves for those skills.'
'We are certainly open to inorganic opportunities to grow.'
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