Bajaj Industries chairman Rahul Bajaj on Thursday said the government should change the archaic land acquisition rules in India to deal with contentious issues like Singur.
Rapid industrialisation has helped India speed up its economic progress said WTO chief Pascal Lamy.
Rajasthan's chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for setting up an IT/ITES SEZ by Somani Worsted Ltd and manufacturing facilities of Jaquar Ltd and Orient Craft Ltd in Bhiwadi. Digamber Singh, Rajasthan's minister of industries, was also present on the occasion.
He told the state party conference that West Bengal now stood at the crossroads and there was no prior model for industrialisation available to it.
Ratan Tata, chairman of India's sprawling Tata Group, on Thursday will pull the covers off a car that is dividing his country
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) contention that capitalism was the only way to industrialise West Bengal has made Left Front partners aghast.
Maharashtra could become the gateway for the rest of the country.
Putting up a brave front after the exit of Tata's Nano project from Singur, West Bengal Chief Minister Budhdhadev Bhattacharya on Sunday said the state government will fight and overcome the obstacles for industrialisation, observing that the state has lost one battle but not the war.
"We cannot squander away the Rs 1,50,000 crore investment proposals. We have to generate employment for our young generations," Bhattacharjee told a district conference of the Communist Party of India - Marxist.
The industrial corridor project in South Tamil Nadu had also received a fillip with large amount of investments committed in this region.
Tata Motors owns 1,000 acres in this rapidly industrialising town in the prosperous terai region of the state. About 30 per cent of it is learnt to be vacant.
The Indian economy can grow if it is delinked from the slow growth in the West and the deceleration in China, says Ashok K Lahiri.
Despite its aggressive renewable energy policies, Europe's economy is getting more not less dependent on oil. Cars are the reason.
Amid controversy over the setting up of China-style special economic zones, India on Thursday said the government recognised SEZs as 'an useful tool' in furthering industrialisation but will implement the concept in its 'own way'.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left for home after a three-day visit to Japan during which he met world leaders including US President George W Bush on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised countries.Singh had a packed schedule on the final day and his bilateral meetings included parleys with Austrlian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and new Russian President Dimitri Medvedev. He attended a breakfast session with leaders of G8.
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If we can come up with ways of sharing property rights on the internet, why not do something similar in urban spaces, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Ahead of the G-8 meeting in Tokyo next month, WTO negotiations have picked up pace in Geneva with a strong expectation of receiving support for a Doha deal from leaders of industrialised nations such as US, EU and key developing countries like India and South Africa. Though India is not a member of G-8, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be attending the meeting along with heads of other four 'outreach' countries that include Brazil.
'If the Indian economy formalises, industrialises, urbanises and develops human capital, 10 lakh youngsters will join the labour force every month in the next 10 years.' 'It's not a bulb that will go off; it is a sunrise.'
Maharashtra CM Vilasrao Deshmukh declared that the state has received approx Rs 20,000 FDI in the last 3 years.
On January 3, Bhattacherjee had strongly advocated capitalism and not socialism as the only way to industrialise the state.
By the looks of it, the Congress cannot hope to return to power even in election 2024. What it can do is to start from the bottom, hold organisational elections, which are honest, and co-opt those elected to form teams of office-bearers at all levels, right up to the working committee. By the very nature of the elections that they are going to lose, the party should use the interim to shore up youth power, or whatever remains, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Standing by his denouncement of the ruling CPI(M)'s capture of Nandigram, West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Sunday visited the troubled area on Sunday and said wrong-doers must not be exonerated and pitched for presence of CRPF for some more time.
On Thursday, the temperature in Bangalore dropped to 12.7 degrees Celcius, the lowest since November 1991.
China expressed concern on Monday over attempts by developed nations to 'inhibit' the industrialisation of developing countries.
Since the SEZ Act was notified in February 2006, 22 SEZs have been up and running. In the last financial year (2006-07), these SEZs collectively exported goods worth Rs 33,000 crore (Rs 330 billion) , roughly 6 per cent of India's total exports of Rs 5,71,641 crore (Rs 5716.41 billion). Officials also pointed out that 52,000 people have found employment in the new SEZs set up after 2005.
Holding the Centre responsible for putting Gujarat in a tricky situation, state Petrochemicals Minister Saurabh Patel on Monday informed the Assembly that with the scrapping of gas purchase agreements, Gujarat would not be able to get gas from April this year.
Rapid industrialisation and a surge in the number of vehicles have made this once beautiful city explode into metropolitan nightmare. Bengaluru is no longer the namma Bengaluru that it used to be. Thanks to the unscientific disposal of waste, pollution levels have risen to unprecedented levels in Bangalore.
The United Nations on Wednesday supported India's position on climate change and pulled up the United States for its failure to do enough to curb the green house gas (GHG) emissions.
R K Pachauri, chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in the effort to structure a new climate change regime by 2009, there had been no major breakthroughs since the creation of the Bali action plan, but 'all eyes are focused on the G-8 summit' of industrialised countries. The Bali action plan was adopted as a two-year process to finalise a building agreement on Climate change at a UN conference in Indonesia last year December.
The Calcutta high court has dismissed all the petitions challenging the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata Motors small car plant.
With India and China becoming more powerful and tilting the balance to the East, it is necessary for the West to seek partnership with them instead of struggling "for hegemony" in the "new world", former British premier Tony Blair has said. "In the next two decades China and India will undergo industrialisation four times the size of the United States and at five times the speed," Blair, now a special envoy to the Middle East, told the Yale alumni.
Cutting hours may actually raise per-hour productivity.
Tata Steel has set up a "Tata Steel Pariwar," under which every displaced family becomes a part of the "Pariwar."
The G-8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the beachside in Heiligendamm, which is sealed off from anti-globalisation protestors by a 13-kilometre-long fence.
Universal basic income or social security? Economist Nitin Desai feels we need a blueprint for universal health care and pensions to help the vulnerable section.
Seeking an expansion of the UN Security Council, he said India, Japan and Germany should be included in the Security Council as permanent members but without veto power.
Labour law changes for three years may not be enough as it takes a couple of years for factories to build and operations at a proper scale start only in the third or fourth year.
Agneepath, Hum and Khuda Gawah are a testament to the Bachchan-Mukul Anand actor-director chemistry. Of the three, Hum is a natural crowd-pleaser, says Sukanya Verma.
