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 …
According priority to e-governance plan for improving service delivery to citizens and businesses, the Minister for IT and Communications, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, has proposed enabling certification of products in e-governance domain, jointly with the Ministry of Urban Development. Stating that UPA Government's Common Minimum Programme laid emphasis on the promotion …
The Assam Government announced a series of developmental schemes to be implemented in the next 18 months, apparently with the 2006 State Assembly polls in mind. The Minister of State for Finance and Planning and Development, Himanta Biswa Sarma today announced that an amount of Rs 500 crore would be …
A 'think tank' comprising representatives of academic institutions, non-governmental organisations and experts has been formed to study the impact of water and sanitation problems on the economy and health of underprivileged especially in suburbs. The think tank is the outcome of a workshop conducted by the Citizens' Alliance for Sustainable …
The Tripura Chief Minsiter, Mr Manik Sarkar, has said steps have been taken by his government to make Tripura a model State in terms of achieving self-sufficiency in food grains production by 2010 and maximising utilisation of Central funds meant for the people. The Government is also making continuous efforts …
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has said steps have been taken by his government to make Tripura a model state in terms of achieving self sufficiency in food grains production by 2010 and maximising ulitisation of central funds meant for the people. The state government is trying to ensure more …
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has called for greater efforts, beyond what has been recommended in the budget, to achieve the 8 per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP). Ficci has expressed concerns regarding inadequate long-term project finance for the industry, which it says …
Farmers of the developing countries appear to have earned a fresh lease of life under a globally administered multi-lateral trading apparatus with India successfully leading a charge to incorporate key points the revised framework agreement of the WTO.For the first time, a mechanism for special products (SP) and a special …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to announce creation of at least 8 inter-ministerial committees on crucial sectors such as agriculture, irrigation and water, and reworked priority agenda for action of the government in his Independence Day speech. The I-day speech would also see the government announce the new 20-point …
The stage is set for power production at the mini-hydel power project at Palair reservoir, as the water level is increasing because water is being released from Nagarjunasagar Project reservoir to protect the paddy under the left canal.
contrasting sentiments marked the opening of the 19th World Mining Congress in New Delhi on November 1. President A P J Abdul Kalam warmly welcomed potential foreign investors as he inaugurated the five-day mega meet. But the event got a cold reception from environmentalists and activists, who described it as …
Southern California Forest Fires Here are some of the different uses of the forest fires that raged in southern California, usa, this month: The Washington Post reported that the fire "whipped' the us Senate into granting preliminary bipartisan approval to a bill that aims to expand forest-thinning operations and limit …
The Sensex stock index has risen by 75 per cent since April this year. The rupee is at a three-year high. Global investment analysts Goldman Sachs predict that India is the fastest growing of the four " BRIC " - Brazil, Russia, India and China - economies expected to it …
Eight years after physicists coaxed ultra-cold atoms into a new type of matter in which thousands of atoms slide into the perfect lock step behaviour of a single superparticle, two research teams have repeated the feat using small molecules. The achievement will provide physicists a new means to explore the …
Promising to take Rajasthan "towards light from darkness", the BJP today announced it will provide employment to one lakh persons a year, allocate 60 per cent of the budget for development projects in rural areas and bring a law to regulate religious conversions, if voted to power.
The Samajwadi Party, which has never won a seat in the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, today promised employment to 25 lakh youth, 16 hours of power supply to farmers and reservation for the Rajputs if it is voted to power.
Noted literary personality K.P.Poornachandra Tejaswi has joined several NGOs in welcoming the Government's Rs 60-crore package for people marooned in the Kudremukh region of the State, stating that the "voluntary resettlement" of poor people was timely and significant.
In a rather ambitious venture, the Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Department plans to educate over one lakh sarpanches and panches about abstruse matters like various Acts, their implications, rules of business and procedure, besides much else in eight hours flat over two days.
THe "People's Agenda", released by a group of activists organisations here, has demanded an assurance from political parties on empowerment of the people at the grassroot level by taking their opinion in policy planning.
India and China are potential future market drivers for the world economy and a slowdown in their growth will eventually have repercussions on the pace of growth and stability of the world economic system, said Mr K C Pant, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. He was delivering an address …
