By Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd), Indias aviation industry traces its roots to December 1940, when industrialist Walchand Hirachand established Hindustan Aircraft Limited (HAL) in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), with American technical assistance and capital and land...
New Delhi : The government on Tuesday declared its intent to change the base year for calculation of GDP and retail inflation to 2017-18 and 2018 respectively, likely to come to effect by fiscal 2019-20. The previous base year revision for gross domestic product...
Bhubaneswar : The Odisha government on Tuesday targeted the Centre over the delay in announcement of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of paddy and other crops for the Kharif season 2018. Agriculture Minister Pradeep Maharathy accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
New Delhi : NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said people have paid a "very high cost" for democracy in the last 70 years and it is now time to reap the dividends. He insisted that NITI Aayog, as a "principal change agent", can help garner those dues....
(GST completes a year on June 30) By Vishav, New Delhi : Touted as the biggest economic reform since Independence, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was supposed to replace the complex indirect tax system prevalent in the country with a more simplified, uniform regime....
New Delhi : The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved a pact with Indonesia for sharing of information in railway sector including modernisation of trains and maintenance of tracks and tunnels. According to an official...
Chennai : Union Minister for Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu on Thursday said the Central government is proposing two schemes at the district level to attract investments. Inaugurating the ACMEE 2018, the 13th International Machine Tools...
Panaji : Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari's recent push for promotion of cruise tourism could boost employment in the sector, the promoter of a Goa-based culinary training institute has said. Addressing a press conference here, Parixit Pai Fondekar, who heads the...
By Quaid Najmi, Mumbai : A district cooperative bank, which has Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as a director, netted the highest deposits among such banks of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes that were abruptly demonetised on November 8, 2016, according...
New Delhi : Recruitment of officers from the private sector, corporates and multinational companies will pose a serious threat to the nature of public service in the bureaucracy, the CPI-M has warned. "Such appointees would be prone to serve corporate interests...