The Planning Commission on Tuesday made a case for increasing prices of petrol and diesel arguing that it was not a good idea to check inflation by keeping prices of petroleum products low.
"Gupta had inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance (terbutaline), which can be commonly found in cough syrups," said the BCCI in a statement.
This is essential to promote investment in essential infrastructure such as Power. Any additional burden will only pass on to the end consumer.
Spare parts from Indian car makers are available with all retailers, but that is not the case with international car makers.
Modernisation of agricultural marketing is important, says Montek Singh Ahluwalia
'There will always be hiccups given that the Namami Gange programme is spread over different sectors and involves several agencies.'
To the disappointment of the Forward Markets Commission, the commodity markets regulator, the standing committee of Parliament examining the Bill seeking to amend the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952, has invited suggestions from the public and stakeholders, including consumer bodies.
Dubbed as the largest farmers' congregation in Delhi, around 35,000 farmers, from across India, converged at the Parliament Street police station Thursday after their march was stopped by the administration.
The court pointed out that implementation of the report would have saved its time in the Bihar instance.
As the MPC is mandated to target CPI inflation rate at 4 plus minus 2 per cent, any measurement error in CPI is likely to have grave consequences for monetary policy.
Besides, as urbanisation spreads, the country will consume more wheat, pulses and less rice and coarse cereals in the coming years.
Nestle relaunched Maggi noodles on November 9.
The application of Anil Ambani Group company Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) for an extension in its existing power distribution licence to the suburbs of this metropolis has been rejected. It has, instead, been told to join the competitive process for a new one, with four other bidders.
Experts question Nestle's silence over Maggi controversy.
Inter-ministerial committee held it first meeting on subsidising costlier imported LNG by making consumers of cheaper domestic natural gas pay more.
The claim is filed with a consumer body.
In a significant judgement, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission has found DLF Universal Ltd guilty of unfair trade practices for not completing construction within the stipulated time and charging extra money from clients for co
'Event management can distract from, but not permanently mask, execution failures,' points out Rathin Roy, director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
Washington might occasionally make some noises about alleged human rights violations and related issues but commonality of interests will only see the Indo-US ties grow stronger, observes Virendra Kapoor.
The biggest loss of jobs among salaried employees was of 'white-collar professional employees and other employees'. Among these are engineers including software engineers, physicians, teachers, accountants, analysts and so on, who are professionally qualified and are employed in some private or government organisation All the gains made in their employment over the past four years were washed away during the lockdown, reveals Mahesh Vyas.
The joint entity will have a market share of nine per cent in India. Analysts tracking the company said one of the key outcomes of the merger would be to create a single brand entity of Sun and the Ranbaxy brand would eventually dissolve.
With more and more youngsters preferring to shop online, the credit appetite has surged.
Stalin has given due respect to seniority in the pecking order, but has also taken into consideration the demands of individual ministries and the suitability of individuals, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
8 first-year students of the polytechnic at Nattakom were allegedly subjected to brutal ragging by a gang of senior students at the men's hostel of the college.
The Electronic Privacy Information Centre, an advocacy group, last week filed a complaint against Facebook and asked the FTC to investigate recent changes made by the company that make more information public by default and automatically share information with other websites.
Sugarcane, which is grown by no more than 1.1 million farmers, consumes 70 per cent of water available in Maharashtra for irrigation. In contrast, about 10 million jowar, pulses and oilseeds farmers get only 10 per cent of irrigation water, points out Abhishek Waghmare.
Commodity market regulator Forward Markets Commission has banned futures trading in electricity owing to poor volumes of trade.
Most of the markets it is now looking at in hopes of gaining the next billion internet users have demographics similar to that of India.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday gave deadline of one week to them to address the problem of outages saying government will not hesitate to cancel their licenses if they fail to comply with the directive.
'Agri reforms need to go beyond the limited concerns of these three laws in improving agriculture productivity in cereal and crop diversification and production patterns.'
'As the 1991 experience showed, the solution to a large trade deficit may be to open up the economy, not putting up protective walls,' points out T N Ninan.
Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra), an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company, is on the warpath with the state electricity regulator. Stung by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission's (MERC's) decision to invite expressions of interest (EoIs) for the distribution of power to Mumbai's suburbs, R-Infra is examining the possibility of legal action.
Commodity markets regulator FMC on Wednesday said it has given approval to the Anil Ambani Group to acquire 26 per cent stake in Indian Commodity Exchange from one of its promoters, Indiabulls group.
LIC accounts for 70 per cent of the life insurance market and is also the largest domestic institutional investor in the country.
In a bid to protect the consumer's interest, the Maharashtra government is planning to issue a directive, by invoking section 11 of the Electricity Act, 2003, to Tata Power to continue supplying power in Mumbai.
In politics, if your objective is only winning elections, just Chanakya neeti might do. For governance you need both, Chanakya neeti and Ram Rajya. You can neither beat up the farmers into submission, nor dismiss them as 'Khalistanis', asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat account for 85 per cent of India's maize production.
If Indian storytelling can deliver, it can make the entertainment industry an engine of economic growth and a substantial contributor to GDP, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Will get powers to levy fines and penalties and allow options trading in commodities.
