Asserting that infrastructure is a key priority of his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Rs3 lakh crore (Rs3 trillion) has been spent on laying a network of 28,000 km of highways. Highways, railways, airways and I-ways have been the focus of the government, he said. Highways construction has reached 27 km a […]
Read MoreFarm subsidies: the coming fight at the WTO India needs to defend policies that make agriculture remunerative and stand by its poor at this stage of development In an attempt to combat rural distress, the Union budget announced this year by finance minister Arun Jaitley promised a new deal to farmers—minimum support prices (MSP) that […]
Read MoreThe troubled legacy of Karl Marx This month marks 200 years since Marx was born. His brilliance cannot be denied. Yet, the impact of Marxism on the world over the long term has been malign Karl Marx was one of the most brilliant analysts of the raw capitalism of his times. He was also a […]
Read MoreThe southern alliance and the 15th Finance Commission indepth analysis State shares have to be firmly founded on accurate measures of relative state taxable capacity—which is now enabled by the goods and services tax On 10 April 2018, the finance ministers of three southern states and Puducherry (a Union territory) met at Thiruvananthapuram to protest […]
Read MoreTime to do away with priority lending norms The banking sector should be allowed to grow its balance sheets, and do business with reference to the bottom lines Foreign banks with more than 20 branches in India will now be required to extend a portion of their loans to small and marginal farmers as well […]
Read MoreStudents across the world will now be able to pursue the education in prominent Indian Educational Institutions. In another ground breaking initiative of HRD Ministry, Union External Affairs Minister, Smt Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for HRD, Dr. Satya Pal Singh jointly launched the Study in India programme of HRD Ministry by launching the ‘Study in […]
Read MoreMeasuring excellence: on NIRF rankings Ranking educational institutions is useful, but the HRD Ministry’s effort needs fine-tuning National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development three years ago. These rankings list the top educational institutions in the country on an overall basis and also by specific disciplines like engineering, […]
Read MorePM addresses CPSE Conclave The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, attended the CPSE Conclave at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi today. Thematic presentations were made to the Prime Minister on subjects such as corporate governance, human resource management, financial re-engineering, innovations and technology, and Vision 2022 for New India. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister […]
Read MoreFDA-like agency needed for agriculture: commerce ministry AGRICULTURE AND INDIAN ECONOMY QUESTION: WHY INDIA NEED SEPARATE EXPORT POLICY FOR AGRI PRODUCT? Draft agri-export policy aims at doubling agri-exports to $60 billion by 2022 India needs to form a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-like agency to have an integrated approach to both agricultural production and […]
Read MoreGST one of the most complex, and second highest tax rate in world: World Bank GST is one of the most complex with the second highest tax rate in the world among a sample of 115 countries which have a similar indirect tax system, says the World Bank The goods and services tax (GST) implemented […]
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