The recent assessment of tiger population is based on determining spatial occupancy of tigers throughout potential tiger forests and sampling such forests using camera traps in a statistical framework, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment and Forests S Regupathy said in a written reply. However, the minister said this assessment is not comparable to the earlier total count using pugmarks owing to several shortcomings.
These dedicated COVID-19 facilities will have a capacity of 1,06,719 isolation beds and 12,024 ICU beds reserved for such patients in the country.
The Congress, Left parties, Trinamool Congress and some others were in the forefront of this attack on the government, which is set to garner around Rs 7,900 crore through the decision.
Are breakthroughs on this imminent, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
India's GDP is estimated to contract by a record 7.7 per cent during 2020-21 as the COVID-19 pandemic severely hit the key manufacturing and services segments, as per government projections released on Thursday. Amid overall decline in economic activities, some respite was provided by the agriculture sector and utility services like power and gas supply, which have been projected to post positive growth during the current fiscal ending March 2021.
The Gross National Income (GNI) at 2011-12 prices is now estimated at Rs 112.13 trillion as against Rs 112.14 trillion estimated earlier for 2015-16.
Roads and national highways are the lifeline of the country, says Oscar Fernandes.
India's wheat procurement in the ongoing Rabi marketing season has already crossed a record 10 million tonne.
'The question is, how soon we can expect to re-attain the pre-lockdown levels of output and income.'
The new numbers show India's economic growth rate averaged 6.7 per cent during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance regime as compared to 7.3 per cent under the present government. Previous numbers had put the average growth rate during the 10-year UPA rule at 7.75 per cent.
Statistics show the failure of the Bihar government in acting against Naxals in the state who are able to set up bases without much difficulty. Vicky Nanjappa reports
We asked readers about what they think of the union HRD ministry's proposal to levy an exit tax on IIT and IIM graduates who go to work abroad for lucrative salaries or to pursue higher studies. Here's the readers' response on the subject.
'China wants to change the status quo of India's Northern Border and proves that it can do whatever it wants in what it perceives as its own territory,' states Claude Arpi.
The Survey adopts an unfettered approach in thinking about the appropriate economic model for India. This endeavour is reflected in the sky blue cover of the Survey, Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy V Subramanian said.
New body to replace Plan panel might retain 40% of existing staff
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.
China also said it will continue to share the flood data with India.
The Bihar deputy chief minister received 44,000 wedding proposals on a number he had given out for residents to send photographs of bad roads.
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.
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.
India's informal economy and service sector accounts for over three-fifths of its $1.8 trillion economy.
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.
However, Beijing expresses readiness for talks to reopen the Nathu La pass for the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra.
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 only category of pharmaceuticals that showed a negative growth in exports this time was herbal products, exports of which stood at $299 million as compared to $ 312 million in the previous year.
Much of the Q3 data will simply not be available for the CSO to factor in its calculation.
A panel will examine the merits and demerits of various dates for the commencement of the financial year.
The government has said it is constantly working towards reviewing the improving the MPLAD scheme.
Somalia-based Al Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Union Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday stoked a potential controversy with her remark that all the violence is "male-generated".
The sample size of 8,100 farmers across 19 states has not changed in the last three decades, and the methodology of the sample survey too remains unchanged
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.
'The killings are a worrisome escalation of tensions, but little is known about the immediate causes or results of the fight in Galwan and it is not possible, at this point, to assign blame'
'We have set out a timetable to reduce income tax rates for all incomes below Rs 50 lakh, and to progressively eliminate the surcharges on income above Rs 50 lakh, by 2024.' The Budget speech past CII president Naushad Forbes wants to hear.
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.
