Violence has erupted in Bengal on Tuesday after Students' Federation of India activists heckled West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra.
Rahul Gandhi's style of media management is baffling many. He first instructed everyone in the Congress to seek prior clearance from two lowly functionaries R V Ramani and Deepak Amin before speaking to the media.
Urban households having car, air conditioners or computer/laptop with internet should be automatically excluded from the list of poor, suggested a Planning Commission-appointed expert group.
This is more than double the money that the state got during the Xth plan.
Planning Commission Member K Kasturirangan, who is also former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, said the country should address the question of water recycling, desalination, hydrological mapping and optimisation of water usage.
He was the chief guest of UIDAI's function in New Delhi.
The Planning Commission and the finance ministry have discordant views on the size of the 2007-08 Plan.
The Planning Commission has issued poverty estimates based on the Suresh Tendulkar methodology, while admitting it was not taking this seriously.
Govt is looking at problem solving than structural reforms to address economic issues.
The implementation of their recommendations means that an adequate apparatus to change this is at the disposal of the government.
The Planning Commission on Thursday said the surge in global oil prices should be passed on to customers, but favoured having some provisions to safeguard the interests of vulnerable sections of the society.
The finance ministry has rejected the formula and, instead, suggested an alternative that takes into account well-head prices of suppliers in Qatar, Oman, Abu Dhabi and Malaysia.
Dudley, on a stop-over visit on way to Shanghai, along with Ambani drove to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia's residence for a breakfast meeting this morning and had sought a meeting with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar.
Montek welcomes investment in infrastructure; deals worth over $5 billion signed at the 2nd India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue.
The gheraoing of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and manhandling of her colleague Amit Mitra in New Delhi came in for all-round criticism, even from the Left whose supporters were involved in the unruly incident.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed regret over the protest faced by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Left activists outside the Planning Commission's office in New Delhi.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fell ill and was administered oxygen while her Finance Minister Amit Mitra was put under observation in AIIMS for some medical tests, hours after they were heckled by an angry mob of SFI activists outside the Planning Commission office.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday faced protests over death of an SFI member from Left activists who also heckled her Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission office in New Delhi.
Says tradability will ensure greater economic efficiency & higher revenues for the government.
India is home to one third of the world's poor, yet the government claims that poverty has fallen.
Pursuing good economic practices is not always easy politically, but anyone who thinks it is impossible may be 'damming the country', Planning Commission Deputy Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Thursday.
States could then stop complaining about the Centre and fashion their own economic destinies, says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
The department of telecom is considering a proposal to reduce the license fee and spectrum charges of telecom players to 2-3 per cent from the current six per cent in the Approach Paper of Planning Commission's 11th Five Year Plan.
The poverty ratio was highest in Chhattisgarh at 39.93 per cent.
A day after addressing a massive rally at the Ramlila Ground in New Delhi for demanding 'special status' for his state, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday.
The Goldman Sachs report that suggests the stock market, Nifty, could grow 17 percent to reach 7,000 by December. At this rate the country will be second to Korea, and better than China.
The official poverty line, which goes back 40 years, focused on a single parameter - what it would cost to get the minimum calorie intake.
The Planning Commission pegs decline at 7.8 percentage points between 2009-10 and 2011-12.
The planning commission and the committee of secretaries have favoured a single appellate tribunal for power and petroleum sectors.
The finance ministry seems to be at loggerheads with the Planning Commission on funding of at least 60 centrally sponsored schemes
Irked over the notice sent to him by the National Commission for Women over his remarks on rape, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday accused the NCW of insulting him.
The slide in India's growth rate over the last five quarters, with the figure for the current year (2012-13) now projected to touch a 10-year low of five per cent, has thrown those who used the gross domestic product benchmark in the past to claim exceptional performance into a tizzy.
After securing an approval for a plan size of Rs 59,000 crore (Rs 590 billion) for this fiscal, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on sparred with the Centre over social sector development in the state as he countered Planning Commission's assessment that lot more needs to be done.
In an apparent attack on the previous united front and NDA governments for neglecting agriculture, the planning commission on Monday asked the centre to "correct" farm policies in view of the deceleration in the sector witnessed since 1996.
The causes for and solutions to India's manufacturing angst may not lie in high land costs, excessively labour-friendly laws or excessive taxes.
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