The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
acrylamide, a carcinogen, has been found in many foodstuffs available in the us markets. The toxic substance is formed in starchy foods when they are fried or roasted at high temperatures. No one suspected it was so pervasive in food until 2002, when scientists of Sweden-based Stockholm University found that …
A clutch of factors, including skyrocketing crude oil prices and the ensuing presidential election, have propelled the issue of fuel economy of vehicles to the foreground in the us. While the United States Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) appears to be in reverse gear on the subject, the country's presidential candidates …
russian researchers have evolved a new theory on how tornadoes form. They claim that nanoscale structures of thunderstorms produce a rapid electricity charge, sending the storms into a spin, and thereby forming tornadoes. Twisters, as tornadoes are often called, are nature's fiercest storms, leading to thousands of deaths every year …
Ever since the election results have come to be known, the question that has been uppermost in the minds of a wide cross-section from captains of industry to the proverbial common man pertains to the fate of economic reforms which gained a new vibrancy and dynamism during the National Democratic …
A Heavy economic agenda awaits the new incumbent at the Centre. The new government will have to prepare a budget for 2003-04, announce amendments to the medium-term Exim Policy, reconstitute Planning Commission and write the Economic Survey. According to officials, it would take about a week to constitute 14th Lok …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to take a step further its efforts in adopting e-governance in totality. The Corporation will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Bangalore firm, E-Governance Foundation, later this month. The firm has assisted civic agencies in Bangalore in streamlining their functions …
The role and remit of the Plan panel continue to be "relevant in the evolution of our polity, coalition government at the Centre with different political parties ruling the States where its coordinating capacity could be of immense strength," the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Mr K.C. Pant, said. "As the …
Notwithstanding the rout of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the elections to Andhra Pradesh State Assembly, trade and industry in the State expects continuity in economic policies. It, however, also feels that that a special focus on the SSIs and agricultural sectors is necessary. The general perception of industry …
The Bush administration has announced new regulations that will significantly reduce emissions from tractors, bulldozers, locomotives and other nonroad vehicles propelled by diesel fuel that, altogether, spew more soot than the United States' fleet of cars, trucks and buses. Michael Leavitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said after a …
Taking a cue from the Centre, the Karnataka Government has proposed to terminate its borrowing from the World Bank for Economic Restructuring. Instead, official sources said here, the State Government has sought an alternative borrowing amounting to Rs 3,500 crore. This borrowing was intended for meeting the fiscal reform costs. …
The Kerala State Electricity Board, in a bid to reduce electricity cost, has started drawing heavily on low-cost power from the central grid and switched off all its thermal stations after May 1, besides stopping taking power from private sector power companies such as BSES Kerala Power Ltd. Senior KSEB …
Oxfam India, a non-governmental organisation representing the national-level water campaign -- Jal Chetna Yatra -- has called on any new dispensation that may form the new government at the Centre to end the trend of privatisation of ownership of water and include water literacy in its policy. Addressing media persons, …
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has reaffirmed government's resolve speed up development process in hilly and backward areas saying that the changed situation was conducive for taking forward the economic transformation of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the development train would soon start chugging through remote and underdeveloped areas of …
The Planning Commission is devising a comprehensive package for bringing states out of the debt trap. In a meeting with Twelfth Finance Commission chairman C. Rangarajan, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman K.C. Pant discussed various options of reducing the debt burden of states which includes waiver of part of the outstanding …
While we blame for a meagre water supply, we do not acknowledge the possibility of doing something worthwhile on our end. Water harvesting is the simple solution to South Delhi'' water woes. With some community effort, residents can solve the problem of scarce water. Water harvesting is the traditional method …
After an encouraging response to the first phase of the bio-diesel extraction project, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is looking to tie-up with a number of players for the second phase. It is in talks with companies such as Tata Motors and Indian Oil to take its …
It could not have come at a better (or worse) time. With the water scarcity looming large as ambient temperatures soar in most of the densely populated south, a recent report warns that if water productivity is not enhanced, the poor of the world will suffer the most. Aptly titled …
A foundation that was originally conceived as a way to reward American ingenuity has broadened its horizons to support ideas that directly improve the lives of people living in the developing world. Raising living standards to levels where people can think about things beyond keeping themselves and their children alive …
Without electricity since December 3 and forced to buy drinking watger for the past several years, the residents of Bhatti Mines are receiving "undue" attention these days. In the run-up to the May 10 Lok Sabha polls, politicians are making a beeling for these villages to woo the disillusioned voters.
