Planning Commission Member N K Singh on Wednesday said there was a need to continue with crucial economic reforms to sustain eight per cent GDP growth.
The N K Singh task force on power sector reforms has proposed wide-ranging fiscal measures, including cut in customs duty, abolition of special ad valorem duty and tax holiday to step up investments in a bid to bring down tariffs.
The Indian captain who is nursing a side strain has been advised rest by doctors.
The openers scored centuries as India Seniors beat India B by eight wickets in the second Challenger Series match.
All the matches in the February 7-10 tournament in Mumbai will be played under lights.
'We are moving away from the Modi promise of less government,' says T N Ninan.
The government on Thursday suspended chairman and managing dof Coal India Limited N K Sharma on alleged charges of corruption during his tenure, official sources said in New Delhi.
Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United on Monday expelled its party leader and Lok Sabha candidate from Sheohar seat Shabir Ali for praising BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
India's economic reforms are the subject of a three-day conference at the Stanford University in USA from June six, with several Indian experts being among the participants.
Veteran Congress leaders and former Union ministers, Vasant Sathe and N K P Salve, who were on a hunger strike on Friday demanding statehood for Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, were hospitalised after they complained of weakness and nausea.
Planning Commission Member N K Singh on Tuesday said there was a need to emulate and replicate the success of some of the leading Indian manufacturing companies to make the domestic industry globally competitive.
With less than five months left for the report of the Fifteenth Finance Commission to be submitted, its chairman N K Singh said the report will have fiscal road map for states, depending on their current situation.
The State Bank of India has been held guilty of deficiency in service by a Delhi consumer court for a seven-year-delay in refunding the money a person had deposited in his Public Provident Fund account thereby causing him agony.
IMA will organise protest rallies and dharnas from November 21 to 24 all over the country in support of the agitating Bihar doctors.
The court has now put up the matter for further hearing on October 4
GM Pavel Kotsur of Kazakhstan and Saidali Iuldachev of Uzbekistan maintained their joint lead after the eighth round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
Indian economy is well tuned to clock at least over six per cent annual growth for the next five years, Planning Commission member N K Singh said.
The meeting came on a day when the ICC Players' contract was challenged in the Delhi high court
Government is considering allowing authorised dealers to issue guarantees to overseas funds which could be used even for purchase of indigenous machinery for the textiles sector.
Former home secretary N K Jain has been booked on charges of hatching a conspiracy to frame a local computer institute owner in the rape of a Shimla-based girl.
Two Indian associates of alleged middleman Christian Michel James were on Saturday granted bail by a special court in a money laundering case relating to the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal.
Planning Commission director N K Singh expressed confidence that the country would see over 7% growth in gross domestic product during the current financial year, but said that maintaining the growth rate would be a difficult task.
Two disproportionate assets cases have been filed against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
The Supreme Court on Friday termed as a "serious matter" the issue of alleged mysterious death of special Central Bureau of Investigation judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, and sought response from the Maharashtra government on pleas seeking an independent probe into it.
Non-compliance of standard operating procedure by prison guards was a major reason that allowed undertrial prisoners including seven naxalites to escape from Chaibasa divisional jail in West Singhbhum district on Tuesday, a senior police officer said on Wednesday.
The veteran leader quit the party and formed a new outfit to pursue the demand for a separate Vidarbha state.
Former BCCI president N K P Salve and five former cricketers, including Kapil Dev, have challenged the contracts on the ground that they impose unreasonable conditions on Indian players.
Making out a case for further rationalisation of duties, Textiles Minister Kashiram Rana Tuesday said his ministry would seek implementation of the N K Singh committee recommendations for the sector in the ensuing Budget.
India's booming telecommunications industry is set to see investment in excess of $20 billion over the next five years, a senior government official said on Friday.
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