Former United States president Bill Clinton arrived by special plane on Wednesday morning to a red carpet welcome amid tight security at the Amausi airport in Lucknow.
Departing from convention, the Planning Commission has sent the draft Approach Paper of the 11th Five Year Plan to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh first for approval.
Assembly elections coming up in November and December could offer a window of opportunity to the government to make GST attractive through rate cuts.
The situation is well under control and no untoward incident has been reported from any part of the district.
'The ideal thing that should be done in Kashmir is call for an election -- before the end of the year.'
On the heels of neighbouring Orissa notching up the single largest FDI project in the country, Jharkhand has also bagged an investment of about Rs 28,000 crore (Rs 280 billion) from domestic steel and power utilities and is ready to sign MoU with Mit
Laying foundation stone for a 44 MW power project in Kargil, the prime minister said converting the Srinagar-Leh road into a national highway is also under consideration.
The earlier forecast expected to see 654 million working Indians overall by the fiscal year ending 2022.
For 'a person who has dedicated his life to teaching students, guiding them to restoring monuments and preserving our built heritage, I never dreamt that my home will one day be demolished.'
Undeterred by the attack on his convoy by angry protestors, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday took stock of the situation in the violence-ravaged Uriamghat area along the disputed Assam-Nagaland boundary. He held a high-level security review meeting at the Sarupathar Railway station.
Reliance Group's Anil Ambani, Godrej Group's Adi Godrej, chief of Sahara Parivar Subrata Roy Sahara and HLL CEO M S Banga held a brainstorming session with government officials to chalk-out a roadmap for the development of the state.
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal said that the film certification body has been no stranger to controversies but there should be frequent review of issues related to censorship.
The government constituted a committee headed by eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal to look into the revamp of the Censor Board which has been mired in controversies in recent past.
Asserting that the economy was in a "resilient" mode, Finance Minister P Chidambram on Tuesday said inflation was under control, but the challenge was to mobilise resources to rev up investments.
The Gujarat International Finance Tech-City, or Gift City, is expected to be spread over 886 acres and will have a special economic zone on 261 acres.
The Financial Stability and Development Council members include heads of regulatory bodies like RBI, Sebi and Insurance Regulatory Development Authority.
RBI Governor cautioned against more volatility.
Karan Choudhury reports on the implications of the strict Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act and the prosecution of Unitech MDs, Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra, in an alleged fraud case.
The Sahara Group said on Tuesday it would build 50 self-sufficient townships in Uttar Pradesh with modern facilities and amenities at an investment of over Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion).
'The PCA framework was revised and tightened in April 2017, but there was no discussion in any board meeting. The government does not know the rationale behind revising the framework and how the RBI arrived at it. Similarly, there was no discussion in the board meeting on the revised NPA framework,' said an official.
The economic growth target has been scaled down from 8.1 to 7-8 per cent annually during 2002-07 in the mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan.
Wipro has already bought a 40 acre plot of land in Greater Noida and is looking for an additional 100 acres.
India is better prepared to deal with any further US Fed tapering, but the country needs to remain vigilant to face eventualities, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan said.
The government on Saturday came out with the modalities of the constitutional amendments to enable states to collect and appropriate service taxes, a Bill for which would be introduced in the Budget session of Parliament next year.
The 10th Five-Year Plan highlights,which was approved by the National Development Council in New Delhi on Saturday.
'We need to enhance revenues and address the problem of untargeted, runaway subsidies,' Vajpayee said while inaugurating the National Development Council meeting.
People had lined up on the either side of the road to greet the President, who drove to the circuit house from the airport.
The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission, chaired by Justice B N Srikrishna, has suggested a non-sectoral, principle-based approach to revamp the existing framework.
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