The total Budget allocated for the department of water resources, river development, and Ganga Rejuvenation has surged to Rs 30,233.83 crore, 55 percent up from last year's allotment of Rs......
The government on Wednesday said any attempt by China to set up a hydropower station on the Brahmaputra river will act as an encroachment on the entitled rights of lower riparian states like India......
Amid a severe drinking water crisis in Tamil Nadu, state deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam on Friday sought from the Centre a special package of Rs 1,000 crore to augment irrigation structures......
The national war memorial, museum to be constructed in five years. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters The government set the ball rolling for a Rs 500-crore national war memorial and war museum near......
Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Thursday that seeking farm loan waiver had become a "fashion", but later offered a clarification after drawing flak from several opposition parties.......
More funds are expected to be allocated for the new crop insurance scheme, PMSKY and RKVY. To boost the rural sector, the Union department of agriculture is expected to get about 30 per cent higher......
On the first day of the New Year, Business Standard lists the important events likely to unfold in 2015 and make an impact on the economy, India Inc, markets and politics. An action-packed year......
Modi govt faces extra spending burden due to policies like 7th Pay Commission and OROP With less than 40 days left for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to present Union Budget 2016-17, its makers are......
Jaitley relied largely on strengthening or tweaking measures that have either already been taken or have already been proposed by present and past governments. Like his predecessors, Finance......
Along with the public investment outlays, what will determine success is how efficiently such investment is implemented, rues Ashok Lahiri In the run-up to the Union Budget, the secular decline in......