The government wants to complete the operations rapidly, including the actual counting of people, by February next year, reports Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. IMAGE: Roadside dwellers being enumerated......
The modus operandi for immunising the country’s 1.35 billion population in stages has been thrashed out in more than one meeting among top government officials in the health ministry and the......
There was the mistaken belief that there was no risk of a second wave anytime soon, reports Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. IMAGE: A policeman receives a shot of the Covid vaccine at a vaccination centre......
'I wouldn't expect this level of migration to go on beyond Tuesday.' 'We expect the movements to come down to a trickle or even to stop at all these places.' IMAGE: Migrant workers wait to board a......
'For the common man, the economic conditions are not going to get better.' IMAGE: Sri Lankans queue to buy cooking gas in Colombo. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters Dr Dushni Weerakoon is an......
'We plan to add over 100,000 square kilometres every year, to reach an ambitious target of 500,000 square kilometres by 2025.' Photograph: Kind courtesy ONGC In the wake of ONGC discovering what......
The government, it would seem, is reserving its firepower to spend on big-ticket items that will be announced in the Budget, reports Subhomoy Bhattacharjee. IMAGE: Union minister for finance......
It would be difficult to stick to the Budget numbers unless the departments are reined in their expenditure plans.Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports. To stick to the fiscal deficit numbers for......
'If we want faster growth and want greater flow of credit towards the private sector, it's important to have many more of such large entities.' IMAGE: The HDFC Bank headquarters in Mumbai.......
Anybody who has seen the gigantic volumes and their conflicting definitions would recognise that GST could not have emerged without their reconciliation, reports Subhomoy Bhattacharjee......