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Concerned with the continuous downward revision, the EPFO has since last month begun counting people quitting their previous jobs and joining a new one as an addition to the net payroll.
Much of the Q3 data will simply not be available for the CSO to factor in its calculation.
Statistics with the ministry of commerce show that China's direct overseas investment had been rising at 66 per cent annually between 2001 and 2005.
A panel will examine the merits and demerits of various dates for the commencement of the financial year.
There has been no discussion so far on cutting Plan expenditure, the Planning Commission said on Thursday even as it asked states to maintain fiscal discipline.
India's informal economy and service sector accounts for over three-fifths of its $1.8 trillion economy.
Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday stoked a potential controversy with her remark that all the violence is "male-generated".
Somalia-based Al Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Three years and Rs 28,710 crore worth of transactions later, it has more than double the number of sellers than Flipkart.
China, with $853.7 billion in its vaults, has just toppled Japan's long-held status as the world's largest holder of foreign exchange reserves, the state media reported.
China's growing income gap may trigger social instability after 2010 if the government is unable to mitigate glaring disparity, experts have warned.
China has 467 million cell phone users by the end of January, indicating that one out of three Chinese owned a mobile, latest official statistics showed.
The number of mobile phone subscribers in China has swelled to over 420 million at the end of May, outpacing the fixed line users, the ministry of information industry said on Wednesday.
The home ministry has directed the Border Security Force to intensify vigil along the International Border in the wake of repeated attempts by terrorists to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir.
'Initially, Gift City was just another real estate project, but all that changed with Modi moving to New Delhi,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The government has said it is constantly working towards reviewing the improving the MPLAD scheme.
Only 48.3 per cent of the rural households used LPG, while the figures were much higher in urban areas at 86.6 per cent, according to a NSO report.
The overall consumer food inflation in August fell to 5.91 per cent as against 8.35 per cent in July
As beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojna have to be EPF subscribers, these numbers indicate that the increase in EPFO payroll estimates is largely due to an increase in the beneficiaries registered under PMRPY.
N R Bhanumurthy, professor of economics at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and the author of the series, presented in a report to the National Statistical Commission, explains to Abhishek Waghmare various aspects of the methodology.
For example, railways, roads and highways, and shipping could form a section within the Budget as an omnibus transport sector
the GDP estimates incorporate new source data and modified compilation techniques
The Sports Ministry budget on Wednesday got a substantial hike of Rs 350 crore in the union budget for 2017-18, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Parliament.
The government on Tuesday projected a higher economic growth of 8.1 per cent for this fiscal from 7.5 per cent in 2004-05, far exceeding expectations of the finance ministry and Reserve Bank of India.
The decline in retail inflation has been mainly on account of falling prices of vegetables and pulses
Our Rediff labs team analysed 2014 data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on the participation of women in decision making at administrative levels in India in three different sectors.
India grew at 7.6% in 2015-16 and at 7.2% in 2014-15.
Faced with the growing number of acid attacks on women, government is planning to categorise such cases as heinous crimes and fix a time-frame for investigation and trial for speedy justice.
Of the seven surveys presented under Modi govt, predictions of three were quite close to the actual GDP growth rate, one saw the base year change in between, but the last three were way off the mark.
The government on Tuesday termed as "misplaced" superstar Aamir Khan's comments on growing intolerance, saying such statements only bring disrepute to the country as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Around 50 to 55 lakh job seekers, on an average, annually register with the employment exchanges for over two lakh notified vacancies.
Retail inflation in pulses and products category rose to a staggering 42.20 per cent in October.
The year 2014 alone witnessed 2.37 lakh road accidents on national and state highways across the country which had left at least 85,462 people dead and 2.59 lakh injured.
Foreign tourist arrivals in the country have shown a jump between January and April of this year registering a growth of 18.3 per cent.
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