Metro projects usually require additional funding by promoters, which RInfra refuses to in this case.
SpiceJet's ex promoter Ajay Singh is trying hard to pump in huge money into the airline.
The initiatives intended to benefit the common man include e-ticketing, catering on demand, bio-toilets, food for infants, better stations.
It will be difficult for the Indian equity to outperform overall growth to the extent bullish observers expect.
The sugar industry clamouring for control and intervention should set the alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.
An interview with Amit Mitra, the finance minister of West Bengal.
'Nobody expected the slowdown to go for these many days. Unfortunately, it is an unbelievably bad slow down.'
'There is a great scope for enhancing the use of organic fertilisers'.
West Bengal was the second-most industrialised state in terms of value added and first in terms of number of factories and employment even in the mid-1960s. With a severe and long process of deindustrialisation, it lost its primacy.
'Modi and Abe are working seriously for India-Japan bonhomie to grow stronger.' 'It is a win-win situation for both countries and the future look promising,' says Rajaram Panda, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations India Chair Visiting Professor at Reitaku University, Japan.
'Though federal, the Constitution is unitary in nature. All matters relating to revenue are centralised. It is necessary that matters related to finance have to be decentralised... States need more freedom in designing schemes with their interest in mind. There has to be a Constitutional amendment to give more powers to the states. A special session of Parliament should amend the Constitution, especially the 7th Schedule,' Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier.