Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's customary address to the joining sitting of Parliament on the first day of the budget session. Honourable Members, This joint sitting of......
For Indian Railways safety is not necessarily a systemic issue but something it attends to only on a case-by-case basis. If accidents were not to happen, the thought of safety would not arise, says......
Many regard the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the flagship welfare programme as the best scheme of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. The act aims at enhancing the......
But the measures, particularly in agriculture, may not be enough to revive the sector and double the farm income, says S Mahendra Dev. Bharat, particularly agriculture, has been under......
Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes. Wage payment delays are a distressing feature of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural......
Schemes are proposed to become an amalgam of priorities laid down by statesThe new body to replace the five-decade-old Planning Commission is expected to be structurally different from the......
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s economic agenda, to be unveiled on February 27 by its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is likely to keep a push for big infrastructure projects and......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee may have earned plaudits for projecting a decline in the fiscal deficit to 5.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2010-11, but his targets for revenue......