"There are several ways in which poverty can be measured . . . the National Sample Survey is the basis for calculating poverty on headcount basis. However, when minister of state for planning V Narayansamy said 'poverty line is being assessed', there was an uproar in the House and Joshi was joined by CPI-M- MP Brinda Karat, who wanted a satisfactory reply from the minister.
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The development comes after the National Democratic Alliance government this year broke a 92-year-old tradition of presenting a separate Railway Budget, according to suggestions made by the Debroy committee.
The Mashelkar panel's recommendation to consider all modifications and variants of new chemical entities (NCEs) as patentable has invited criticism from sections of Indian pharmaceutical industry and public interest organisations
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to launch a web portal 'MySecurity.in' that will be a platform for innovation in the field of security related web applications.
Terming terrorism as an international problem, China has said the joint military training with India will help fight the menace in an organised way.
Aniruddha Rajput, 33, is among the 34 individuals elected by the General Assembly as members of the International Law Commission, the UN organ tasked with the progressive development of international law and its codification.
GCIG is a two-year initiative launched by the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chatham House.
The commerce ministry has allowed the technical expert group headed by former Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Chief R A Mashelkar to correct the "technical inacuracies" in the patent law report and re-submit it within three months.
The decision has come in the wake of allegations of plagiarism against the Mashelkar panel report.
Ranbaxy Laboratories, the biggest member of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, has come out in the open against the alliance's stand on patent issues.
The next Budget is likely to see significant changes in the duty structure for the gems and jewellery sector
There is no proposal to merge Nilachal Steel Corporation with SAIL but the process for the government's proposed merger of Nilachal Ispat Nigam Limited with Steel Authority of India Ltd is underway, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
The government is under strong pressure from its Left party allies to scrap the Technical Expert Group on Patent Laws headed by R A Mashelkar, former chief of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
The Cabinet may on Thursday take a decision on the draft Bill for setting up the coal regulatory authority.
Reserve Bank has expressed dissent at the finance ministry panel's suggestion on allowing foreign institutional investors to issue Participatory Notes and allowing them to take exposure in India's debt instruments.
The 14-member task-force will develop a working definition of poverty.
The government on Wednesday said it will come out with a simplified settlement scheme for firms found violating the Companies Act and look at striking off names of defunct companies.
Two persons died and seven others were injured in a stampede after a fire broke out in Murshidabad Medical College Hospital in Berhampore district of West Bengal triggering panic among patients and their relatives.
The government was considering the report of the S K Joshi Committee to constitute an expert group to assess the suitability of transforming seven institutions to the level of Indian Institutes of Technology
The cancellation of the project has far-reaching implications for the IAF, for which this was once its high-tech future fighter.
Given the rapid changes in the Indian labour market, there is an urgent need to have current, accurate and publicly available data through regular, dynamic and comprehensive surveys. Indeed, this was the intention behind constituting the NITI Aayog Task Force on Improving Employment Data. The attempts by the government to "improve" labour data has actually made it worse, say Rosa Abraham, Janaki Shibu & Rajendran Narayanan.
The government also wants to ensure that content meant for radicalising youths, from outfits like Islamic State, doesn't find circulation in India.
A six-member expert group will have talks with Chinese experts on the landslide in the Parechu river in Tibet.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the states were free to announce farm loan waivers if they had the fiscal space and that there would be no shortfall this year in divestment and non-tax revenues.
Both firms have made several applications for patents pertaining to digital payments in the country
There have been many efforts in the past to develop Mumbai into an IFC, while an expert group was also set up by the government years ago to study this possibility.
India continues to rank as the third top source of overall malicious activity including spam, malware, phishing hosts and bots
The reactor will start its initial production of 400 MW electricity within 20 days, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said.
NITI Aayog spent a considerable time on restructuring the setup.
Why does Punjab's CM find it hard to fulfill poll promises?
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Bhutan the destination of his first foreign visit. Now two weeks later, the foreign minister of the Himalayan kingdom, Rinzin Dorje, is in Beijing discussing the China-Bhutan border issue. The move poses a serious challenge to New Delhi because any negotiation on China-Bhutan border dispute is bound to affect India's border negotiations with China. Bhutan and China share 470 kilometres of border, which is also close to India's 'chicken's neck' -- the narrow Siliguri corridor which links the northeast.
The initiative would provide double the relief announced by the states of UP and Maharashtra, the Punjab CM said.
In 2013, a total of 28,481 Indian websites were hacked
Grand plan: 10% GDP growth; 175 million jobs; $10-trillion economy
Samples of Mother Dairy milk last week were found to be contaminated.
PS banks need to pull up their socks to improve cash flows.
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