'We need to look beyond the current approach'.
Former international athletics federation (IAAF) president Lamine Diack has told French police that he asked a Russian athletics boss for 1.5 million euros to finance political opposition in his native Senegal in 2011, the French daily Le Monde reported on Friday.
'The EC is a sacred institution.' 'In the last few years, more than once, we have found the EC bending over backwards to accommodate the government.'
'This updated NPR database along with Aadhaar Number would become the mother database and can be used by various government departments...' the home ministry declared in July 2015. 'UID/Aadhaar has been used as a fish bait to ensnare and entrap present and future generations of citizens,' warns Gopal Krishna.
The overriding objective of the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) must be adequate economic return, not financial return.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
DEA officials to push for this at a meeting with FM Jaitley.
Capex for next year expected to be up 25% to Rs 3 lakh crore
India needs a place where all regulators could gather and function as in a war room.
Farmers with land sizes less than 0.01 hectare have an average annual income of Rs 54732 and annual consumption of Rs 61296, thereby, a debt of Rs 6564 each year. Compare this with the minimum pay for a government employee, says Devanik Saha.
What does Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee thinks about India's education sector?
Fitch frowns at government pay hikes.
Ishan Bakshi studies the Budgets of six states, their expenditure priorities and outlays to understand the trend.
Amid India slipping to 134th spot in the ease of doing business ranking of 189 nations, Planning Commission member Arun Maira on Tuesday said "merely making comparisons" is not enough to improve business conditions.
The finance minister said he said, "The judgement has upheld the primacy of one basic structure -- independence of judiciary -- but diminished five other basic structures of the Constitution, namely, Parliamentary democracy, an elected government, the Council of Ministers, an elected prime minister and the elected leader of the opposition."
'If you are looking to fulfil imminent long-term commitments, the new online Ulips are the right product for you,' notes Santosh Agarwal/Policybazaar.com.
Money permits patronage. Money means power. No wonder details of the crores locked up in NPAs and never repaid loans are top secret, Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Most of the projects face hurdles such as delay in approvals and lack of coordination between state governments and the railways.
An exercise to rationalise coal linkages which will optimize transport of coal and reduce cost of power is underway.
'The household sector, which is still the largest contributor of financial savings, has been experiencing a decline in the last six years, and it has fallen below 8% of GDP.'
India is perceived to be a powerhouse for investment in coming times.
He said it will be 'foolhardy' to diminish institutions for short-term political gains.
The Right to Information should not be limited to right to know but it should empower every citizen to question those in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
'The appointment of judges must not be under the control of the government,' says Prashant Bhushan.
Trade unions said Jaitley's minimum wage announcement is completely inadequate
A top Home Ministry official said no note has been prepared yet to be placed before tomorrow's scheduled meeting of the Cabinet to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He also indicated that the current position of the rupee is competitive against world currencies.
While some CMs suggested reopening economic activity in phases, others pitched for the extension of the coronavirus lockdown, but with a carefully crafted exit strategy
Speaking on Friday at the 44th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, warned that while the Eurozone was showing strong signs of recovery, the crisis was far from over.
Siddaramaiah announces free LGP gas, universal health scheme in budget
Yes. Whilst public expenditure is kicking in, the key reason is the decline in private investment
At present, except Trai, all regulators and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) have powers to levy penalty in case of violation of any rule or law. The GST anti-profiteering authority will be the only institution which will not have the same.
Many laws on the books are contradictory, and it is a truism that no Indian citizen or business can comply with every single law.
The Singapore Minister applauded Prime Minister Modi's effort to make India the manufacturing hub of the world.
'Somewhere in the midst of the three milestones of 1881, 1984 and 1999 are the clues that provide the answer to the troubling corrosion of Karnataka politics: The disappearance of values, the criminalisation of politics, and the complete collapse of ideology,' says Krishna Prasad, former editor-in-chief, Outlook.
Thousands of ex-servicemen across the country on Sunday converged at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to protest over the delay in implementation of the 'One Rank, One Pension' scheme.
A slowdown in India's growth rate, the bank said, has also affected the growth rate of South Asia. As a result, South Asia has fallen to second place after East Asia and the Pacific.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government will safeguard interests of soldiers retiring at an early age through higher pensions.
Modi will have a number of high-profile multilateral and bilateral meetings with global leaders including United States Vice President Mike Pence and Singapore premier Lee Hsein Loong.
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