'...and the government is suppressing the truth.'
If a feasible business model is worked out for cable operators, they will not only build the last-mile networks, but also market them among the local population telling people the benefits as well as how to utilise them
An interview with HUL's managing director and CEO Sanjiv Mehta.
The law minister said 20 Muslim countries in the world, including Pakistan and Malaysia, have banned the triple talaq. "Why can't a secular India do it?" he asked.
Some initial reactions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes with effect from midnight.
Lamenting that children were not a "political priority" in the country, Nobel laureate and child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi on Friday appealed to the Centre to implement the toughest law to put an end to their exploitation.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley more than halved the central government's financial support.
The Budget will indicate where the Modi government stands on reforms, growth and development.
'Almost deified by enough Indians now, never mind his politics and, worse, economics,' says Shekhar Gupta.
The question that is being asked is: Does the GST campaign gain from his all-too-familiar face taking forward its message or will brand fatigue flatten the impact?
For almost 60-minutes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke extempore at the SAP Center in San Jose and he left a crowd of 18,500 in awe.
Instead of announcing new schemes, focus will be on those already announced and key sectors.
'Modi and BJP have fooled us enough by creating a Hindu-Muslim divide. Our anger is about jobs and farmers getting a good price, but Shah needs to be taught a lesson for betraying us.'
Enabling labour to become more globally mobile can produce higher remittances with powerful 'brain gain' dividends.
Rajnath says incidents of atrocities against Dalits have come down since the Modi government took over.
'Modi is likely to make more announcements to win or retain popularity, and put himself at the centre of things even more than now,' says T N Ninan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his second 'Mann ki Baat' radio address to the nation on Sunday, said as far as the issue of black money was concerned, he would work to ensure that every single penny was returned back to the country.
'Swachh Bharat Cess imposed last year should be made broad-based.' 'Budget should be predominantly economy/ business-oriented and problem-solving rather than political consideration-based.'
Modi said he saw the election results, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, as the "foundation of the new India".
The choking of natural drainage brings monsoonal Mumbai to its knees year after year.
He said the country has all the capabilities it needs, it just needs opportunities now.
'It doesn't really matter ultimately what individual commentators say or write about Modi. So long as he continues the BJP's march towards greater vote share, a bigger geographic spread and a crushing of the Congress, he is a success,' says Aakar Patel.
There are no two views on which way the 'hawa' is blowing. It's Akhilesh Yadav -- with or without his father. Akhilesh, with or without the Congress Party.
Naidu was an ABVP activist during the Emergency and was arrested and jailed.
Almost half of that market is in India's villages.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his gesture of congratulating him after winning the Lok Sabha elections, saying he did not expect him to reach out after their "nasty" spat.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday presented the Union Budget for 2016-17.
"Crores of Muslim women had always demanded that triple talaq should be banned, as it is also banned in Islamic countries," he said.
'This is social reform, which has to be conducted from within society and by its institutions, like religious bodies, not by public officials and ministers. That is why I think the big change Modi seeks is actually not in his power to bring about,' says Aakar Patel.
When the Centre collects money through cess, it can retain the entire fund for the particular scheme.
ADB pegs India's GDP growth at 7.8 per cent in FY 2015-16
Let Air India - that anyway flies very limited international routes, often bleeding profusely and makes huge losses on trunk routes - do this national service, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Without naming the UPA government, he attacked it over alleged corruption and flagged his government's 'honest' credentials.
P Chidambaram accused the BJP of making a u-turn on bills like GST after having stalled them during the UPA regime.
The premium on insurance policies will get costlier by 3 per cent to 7 per cent, depending upon the rate fixed by the GST Council from April 1, 2017, says Harjot Singh Narula.
The company has done a lot to promote 'Open Happiness'.
The Narendra Modi government is here to stay for 10-20 years, Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah asserted on Friday, claiming that the new dispensation has ended the "reign of scams" and policy paralysis while changing the political culture in the country.
'There will be some issues of contention, especially on H1B visa and on trade policy.'
The challenges authorities face in cleaning Ganga and other holy rivers in Varanasi.
Reiterating his 'suit-boot ki sarkar' jibe, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a feku (a brag).
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