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Urgent need for common climate risk evaluation framework, more adaptation funding: ReportIndia is pushing for climate adaptation action despite the lack of a framework. Six states require $5.5 billion annually. Economic challeng...
States may be allowed to settle off-budget borrowings by FY27The Centre cleaned up its own budget last year by repaying all off-budget borrowings, and many states have begun to do the same since the C...
Government looks to integrate 100 more interstate mandis with e-NAME-NAM, which was launched in April 2016, is being implemented by the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium, a central government agency, wi...
8 states to get nod for borrowing plans only after full disclosuresThe eight states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim.
Hallmarking to push growth for India’s top jewellers by over 20% in 2022Rating agency ICRA and some of the organised players in the sector said consumers are shifting towards hallmarked jewellery as they believe...
Malabar Group's overseas arm lists on Nasdaq Dubai Private MarketWhile, with this registration, shares of Malabar Investments will be not be publicly traded, private trading of the securities will take pl...
RBI's bond buys helped India during pandemic, Kerala's public health service has 'excellent reputation': UNESCAPIn its report ‘Beyond the pandemic: Building back better from crises in Asia and the Pacific’, it also said in the Asia Pacific region, man...
Fiscal deficit quality more important than deficit stats: Amit ShahResponding to a query on the rising fiscal deficit, Shah said: “It’s not the fiscal deficit numbers but the quality of fiscal deficit that ...
Govt's skill upgrade programme for unskilled labourers under MGNREGA fails to take offOfficial data showed that of target of 1.012 lakh candidates for training in the current fiscal under Unnati project, barely 4% or 4,181 ca...
View: Is West Bengal's economy really growing? Making sense of the state's GDP numbersBut while Kerala’s budget shows a contraction, West Bengal shows a sharp 8% growth in nominal GDP, against a 4.2% contraction for India. Th...
Malabar Gold to invest Rs 2,000 cr to open 80 stores in 2017The group, which is also into real estate, has clocked Rs 26,000 crore in revenue in fiscal 2017, up from Rs 21,000 crore just a year ago.
Karnataka slips to No. 4 in governance indexThe report found there is still a long way to go so far as essential infrastructure such as roads and transport, power, water and housing a...
Special status for revenue deficit states done away with by 14th Finance Commission: Jayant SinhaWith Punjab demanding revenue deficit grant, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha has said that the special status to any state has b...
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy bags UN award for 'mass contact programme'Chandy bagged the first prize from the Asia Pacific region with awardees chosen every year from five zones around the world, a press releas...
- Service loans out of revenues: RBI tells states
RBI has advised state governments to service their loans out of their own revenues . Besides, it has made other sweeping suggestions to hel...
- Now, NREGA gets a taste of uniongiri
In Kerala, the scheme’s beneficiaries are exercising another inalienable right - the right to form trade unions.
Southern states surge; UP wins WB praisesAN ASSESSMENT of the economic performance of Indian states by the World Bank indicates that Karnataka recorded the best performance in 1995...