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 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Monday have suggested action plan for the new government, which talks of deepening and accelerating reforms in infrastructure, agriculture, social infrastructure and entrepreneurship. The 10-point agenda stresses on the need of executing infrastructure projects in a efficient and transparent way. A CII statement …
As many as 50 heads of state including India have been invited to take part in the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) scheduled to be held in Sao Paulo in Brazil from June 13 to 18. Addressing a news conference here, Director, International …
The land of a thousand lakes wants to sell you some of its water. With a seemingly endless supply of the cleanest ground water in the world, Finland's capital Helsinki has set up a company that bottles and sells what Finns get through the kitchen tap.
Goaded by higher than expected economic growth in Asia and the US, world trade recovered at an increased rate in 2003 and could expand further in 2004 if the global economy continues to improve, according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Releasing its assessment of international trade in 2003 and …
Taking yet another step towards providing clean drinking water to the residents of the Capital, the Delhi Government has decided to install mobile water treatment plants. This new concept will take care of water treatment at the local level and rid the water of excessive iron, ammonia or other such …
The tribak vilalge of Chandapur in Surat has decided it'll be free of the state government. Ar a gram sabha last week, Chandapurians resolved they owuld decide whent he sabha would be held and not the government. They also decided that it would be the villagers who would set the …
The 690-MW Salal hydel project, largest power project in Jammu and Kashmir, has surpassed its generating target by 394 million units during the just concluded financial year. Against targeted 3082 million units, it generated 3476 million units during 2003-04, registering a significant increase.
Not expecting much from negotiating groups at the moment, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has not planned any formal meetings of the groups. It wants talks to progress informally at bilateral meetings between groups and delegations. Speaking to FE, official sources said that the general understanding in Geneva, the headquarters …
The Bharatiya Janata Party has unveiled its vision for making India a "developed and a great power" by 2020 - a goal it promises to achieve through aggressive globalisation and modernisation. Releasing the Vision Document 2004 on Tuesday, the BJP chose to re-articulate its national "vision". While the document seeks …
coke restrained: The bottling plant of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited (HCBPL) at Plachimada in Kerala has temporarily stopped drawing groundwater from the area. The company had to fall in line after the Kerala High Court (HC) refused to stay the state cabinet's February 17 order, directing the plant to …
The pollution under control (puc) norms for emissions from vehicles that are in use have been revised 10 years after being enforced. The Union ministry of road transport and highways issued the new notification on February 10. The revised standards would come into effect from October 1. They include many …
No one would have heard of a hamlet called Anedoddi, six kilometres from Harohalli and barely 50 kms from Bangalore, in the heart of Kanakapura taluk of Karnataka. But this village was in the spotlight, when Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited it in October last, to disburse compensation to the …
With the inordinate delay in the implementation of several ambitious irrigation projects, the hapless farmer is often left to cope with the perpetual drought. But self help can help reap rich dividends. And some 500 farmers of Hosatti village, 11 kilometres from Athani, in Karnataka, have demonstrated this amply well. …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has severely indicated the Bihar Government for ineffective implementation of rural development schemes, which deprived the targeted rural poor of the intended benefits under various programmes.
Tamil Nadu reels under a third successive year of drought, and the rural economy is fast drying up as a sixth straight crop failure stares farmers in the face. R. Maniam, who owns 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares) of land, is virtually in tears as he crushes a fistful of paddy …
World Bank's southern bonanza continues. In a shot in the arm to Tamil Nadu, the bank is set to provide Rs 650 crore more for poverty alleviation programmes in the state. The bank board will take a final decision in May, sources say. A large chunk of the loan is …
The southern States have taken a comfortable lead in registering the developmental growth compared to the States located in north, northeast, east and west. According to analysis carried out by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), the southern States' economic performance took an upturn in the …
Carved out of Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu in 1986, Tuticorin occupies a pride of place in the history of India's independence struggle.It has produced a rich crop of freedom fighters, from Veerapandia Kattabomman, who challenged the might of the British in the 18th century, to V. O. Chidambaram, doyen …
A two-day meeting of women entrepreneurship development and artisans-at-work organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation was formally inaugurated in Islamabad. A large number of women entrepreneurs and artisans from all the four provinces, Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas are attending the event. Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, the chief …
The NDA manifesto for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections will catalogue the developmental agenda of the Vajpayee-led Government, and will promise to continue with its performance on return to power. The manifesto, which would be released within a week, is being prepared by NDA convener George Fernandes, Finance Minister Jaswant …
