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 …
The BTC approved Rs 140,07.49 lakh for the BTC area developmental projects and readied it for sending to DONER. Though the Government of Assam after taking some major projects of drinking water supply scheme at Kokrajhar Rs 2401.98 lakh Champamoti Irrigation project Rs 3947.58 lakh. Suklai Irrigation project Rs 1072.37 …
The highest point in the Andaman Islands is the 750 metre high Saddle Peak in North Andaman and traverses in a northerly direction for a total length of 35 km before merging into the sea near the Aerial Bay on the eastern coast. The Kalpong Hydroelectric Power Project is located …
India's economy is spawing a growing middle class, a host of international companies, a booming stock market and a new image for this nation of more than a billion people. But those very reforms and conditions are also reducing the prospects of some of its citizens. India may be
India is in the league of 15 trading partners of the United States being monitored by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) under its 'priority watch list'. The US move is for India's failure to provide an "adequate level of intellectual property right (IPR) protection or enforcement or market access …
The Gujarat State forest department has made special drinking water arrangements to prevent lions from straying into nearby villages. The department has set up 270 water holes in the sanctuary in various locations and water is being supplied to the water holes by tankers. There have been instances in the …
On March 31, 2004, the Central Statistical Organisation of the Government of India published the third quarterly estimate (Q-3) of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the months October to December of 2003-2004 fiscal, which were immediately described as "staggering" and the highest in the world, ahead of even China. The …
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) on Thursday revised its recent GDP projection for the current fiscal from 6.7 per cent to 7.1 per cent now "as the year has begun on a strong platform for growth" though it tinged the optimism with some riders such as "if …
The Border Security Force (BSF) deployed in the Garo Hills border facing Bangladesh has been assisting the villagers in improving their living standard by donating a series of items through its annual civic action programme. The programme has been gaining momentum since the last couple of years and is primarily …
Members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have agreed to back legal and policy options on the protection of traditional knowledge with a precise analysis of the implications of each option. They have also decided to develop an overview of policy objectives and core principles for the protection of …
now farmers of the developing nations need not make backbreaking efforts to prepare their land for wheat cultivation. Scientists from Bangladesh-based Wheat Research Centre (wrc) have developed a tool that helps cultivate the crop without tilling the land several times. The device, zero tiller, is already popular among farmers across …
The enlargement of the European Union (EU) on May 1 will be beneficial for India, since most of the third country benefits will accrue to it, ambassador of the delegation of the European Commission to India Francisco da Camara Gomes has said. Addressing a meeting organised by the Confederation of …
The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has forecast the country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth during the current fiscal at 6.7 per cent against 8.13 per cent in fiscal 2003-04. In its latest monthly bulletin, Macro Track, the council said, "Keeping in view the normal rainfall prediction on …
The Ghaziabad Development Authority unveiled its Master Plan 2021 on Saturday, which included a Delhi to Meerut expressway along National Highway (NH) 58 and a road linking NH-58 and NH-24 to decongest traffic on highways. Jointly prepared by the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) and the National Capital Region (NCR) Cell …
The people of Hyderabad finally received water from the Krishna river to meet the growing demand for drinking water in the scorching summer. About 25 million gallons of treated water reached the city through a 116 km long pipeline. The water reached the city at a time when it is …
the much-touted North East Industrial Policy (neip) of the Union government badly needs a ‘mid-course correction’. This acknowledgement has come from none other than S Jagdeesan, joint secretary in the Union ministry of commerce and industry, at the Northeast Expo 2004 at Delhi. He made some other revelations. For example, …
for the first time researchers have verified that Ebola virus can spread from infected animal corpses to humans. The findings would prove helpful in combating the virus, which causes haemorrhagic fever and death within a few days of infecting people. The most lethal strains of the virus, causing up to …
Former member of the Planning Commission L C Jain, who addressed the 23rd annual convocation of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) at the IRMA campus, Anand, Gujarat, critically questioned the development of rural sectors in the country. After awarding post-graduate degrees to 89 students, who completed their two-year …
Last year, Congress Chief Minister Digvijay Singh lost the Madhya Pradesh (MP) state elections. In 2001, the Communist-led coalition lost in Kerala. Both governments had promoted decentralisation. Was their defeat a vote against the move for local governments and devolution of power? And, if decentralisation does not bring electoral benefits, …
