New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission has played an important role in attempting to solve the problem of open defecation in India, but the next challenge is bringing behavioural…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Low-cost investments in maternal nutrition and sanitation programmes can help India exploit its demographic dividend, says the Economic Survey for 2015-16 released on Friday. The survey, tabled in parliament by…
Chennai, Feb 26 (IANS) The high cost of industrial power coupled with erratic supply has resulted in steady growth of captive generation and the trend could accelerate with lower oil prices, states Economic Survey 2015-16….
London, Feb 26 (IANS) Britain has become more middle class than working class in year 2000, according to social grading data. The proportion of households working in non-manual professions was 50.6 percent at the turn…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Economic Survey for 2015-16 tabled in parliament on Friday has pegged India’s growth for the next fiscal in the 7-7.75 percent range. Reviewing the major developments during the fiscal,…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Calling for reform in the fertiliser subsidy system, the government’s Economic Survey 2015-16 said on Friday that there is a major need to rationalise fertiliser subsidies and plug leakages in…
Mumbai, Feb 26 (IANS) Short-coverings, coupled with value-buying and positive Asian indices, supported the rise of the Indian equity markets during the mid-afternoon trade session on Friday. Consequently, the barometer 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of…
* Eight percent growth in next couple of years Indian economy stands out as a haven of macroeconomic stability, resilience and optimism and can be expected to register GDP growth that could be in the…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Economic Survey for 2015-16 tabled in parliament on Friday has pegged India’s growth for the current fiscal in the 7-7.5 percent range. Reviewing the major developments during the fiscal,…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Economic Survey for 2015-16 tabled in parliament on Friday stated that despite heavy volatility in global financial system, the Indian stock markets were more resilient than their global peers….
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Economic Survey for 2015-16 tabled in parliament on Friday pegged India’s growth for the next fiscal at 7-7.5 percent. For the current fiscal, the survey estimated the GDP growth…
Brussels, Feb 26 (IANS) Inflation in the 19-country eurozone nudged down to 0.3 percent in January, lower than its previous estimate of 0.4 percent, an official data showed. In the wider 28-member European Union (EU),…
Dublin, Feb 24 (IANS) Ireland has seen the lowest unemployment figures in seven years, with 142,300 people back to work since the height of the unemployment crisis, according to official figures. The figures from the…
Singapore, Feb 24 (IANS) The Singapore economy grew 1.8 percent on a year-on-year basis in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the whole year GDP growth eased to two percent last year, the Ministry of…
Abu Dhabi, Feb 23 (IANS/WAM) Successive economic developments in Arab countries are posing new challenges to the decision-makers, Abdulrahman Al Hamidy, Director-General and Chairman Arab Monetary Fund, said on Tuesday. Arab decision-makers need to focus…
Seoul, Feb 22 (IANS) South Korea’s top economic policymaker on Monday said the government will make its best efforts to minimise the possible negative economic impact from North Korea’s recent rocket launch and nuclear test….
Beijing, Feb 22 (IANS) Finding suitable employment could prove difficult for China’s fresh college graduates this year due to a slowing economy, the media reported on Monday Zhang Jingxiu, executive director of Beijing-based employment consultancy…
New York, Feb 22 (IANS) Economic sanctions are not effective tools for achieving specific policy goals in foreign nations, suggests a new research that looked into the effects of imposition of economic sanctions against Iran….
Kathmandu, Feb 22 (IANS) Nepal’s inflation rate reached nearly seven-year high of 12.1 percent in January due to prolonged strikes in the Tarai region and disruption on trade routes in the southern parts of the…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) The rate difference between wholesale and retail prices of essential vegetables went up over 53 percent in the three-month period between November 2015 to January 2016, as against 50.4 percent…