India's unpopularity coincides with China lengthening its shadows in Nepal, says Rajeev Sharma.
Overhauling India's bloated and often sluggish state banks is critical for the government
Are the ChildLine booths for runaway children an attempt to sanitise Indian railway stations or a genuine effort for the protection of 'railway kids'?
Retail inflation has eased from double digits in 2013.
Around 700 migrant workers, women and children have lost their lives in this reverse migration. But what is happening today with the migrant labour is only a continuation of the policies pursued by the Modi regime during the last six years. It is not for nothing that India was ranked the most dangerous country in the world for women in 2018 by the Thompson Reuters Foundation poll, points out Rashme Sehgal.
India is experiencing jobless growth and skepticism abounding that the country may not be able to cash in on its demographic bonus
Experts say it will make GDP growth target of 5.7-5.8% difficult to achieve, while ministries feel late resurgence will help in sowing of rabi crops.
For 2015-16, IMF pegged India's growth rate at 7.5 per cent.
This time the all-powerful interest-rate setting panel, whose constitution was notified by the government on Thursday, will take call on interest rate. But that's not the only change. The Reserve Bank of India has also decided to change the timing of announcement of its policy review, due next Tuesday, to mid-afternoon.
'For every epidemic, it takes a peak and then it comes down.' 'Usually, infections peak in 14 days, and you give another week's time after the peak.' 'That is why the lockdown is for 21 days.'
A breakthrough will come from what we teach and how, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
Chetan Ghate, Pami Dua and Ravindra Dholakia have been appointed for 4 years
In 2014, foreign tourist arrivals grew by 10.2 per cent over 2013.
If you looked back at 2018 and had to give it a name, the Year of Limitations might be the most accurate.
The survey covered 47,535 households in rural areas and 36,065 households in urban areas.
'Whatever happens in any part of the world affects us.'
India's latest GDP numbers do not signal robust economic growth in near term.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
New data is puzzling as these aren't corroborated by other data
Presenting the Top 20 of 100 science colleges as per India Today's findings.
Presenting the Top 20 of 100 science colleges as per India Today's findings.
Investors in LIC's insurance and other schemes are receiving a lower rate of return because LIC is subsidising incompetence at best and malfeasance at worst in institutions such as IDBI Bank and IL&FS, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
Raking up the December 16 gang rape case and the infamous Tandoor murder case, Narendra Modi on Friday attacked Sonia Gandhi over the issue of security of women and said women are not even safe in the Congress.
The new national income numbers produced by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have elicited two kinds of reaction.
A collapse in global oil prices has unleashed a wave of monetary easing.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden speech from Red Fort last Independence Day outlined some grand programmes. Shehzad Poonawalla does a quick check on the progress made.
India expects to remain unscathed this time, mainly because it is in a sweet spot as the world's third largest oil consumer, after the US and China, says Subhomoy Bhattacharjee.
While it took the Congress nearly a half century to earn the hatred of other political outfits, the BJP appears set to reach there in around six years, says Arun Bhatnagar, former secretary to the GoI.
Even if the new body focuses on long-term planning, it is unlikely to do so through five-year Plans.
'The BJP certainly has an edge as the BJP has gone ahead of the Congress in pleasing the trading community.'
RBI declines to accede to plea, upheld by Padmanabhan panel, for priority sector tag; feels move would dilute claims of those needing it more.
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As of September, account for bulk of applications for availing of the government's amnesty scheme.
NITI Aayog vice chairperson Rajiv Kumar tells Indivjal Dhasmana that additional funds could be generated through divestment, and that the fiscal deficit should be widened while focusing on the revenue deficit.
He is expected to invite German companies to invest in India and participate in 'Make in India' initiative
Ananthasubramanian, 55, started her career in 1982 at Bank of Baroda as a specialist officer in the planning stream.
The alleged chit fund scam in West Bengal involving the Saradha Group revolves around a total sum of Rs 2,460 crore with 80 per cent of the depositors' monies still remaining unpaid, a latest investigation report has revealed.
The Prime Minister's Office has decided to set up a panel, led by former chief statistician T C A Anant, to deliberate on whether the enterprise-level quarterly data, which is released by the labour bureau, should be discontinued.
Search is on for reliable indicators of underlying activity.
Though it is likely gross domestic capital formation increased in the quarter ended June, against declines in the previous two quarters, a significant revival in investment might take a few quarters more, economists say.
Macro data have little connect with indicators on the ground.
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