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 …
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's lament at the lack of proper monitoring of the various Centrally sponsored schemes in the states has not come a day too soon. Addressing the conference of ministers and secretaries of rural development of all states and Union Territories in New Delhi recently, he stressed …
Mr Azad Singh Nehra, secretary of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee has urged the Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala to issue a white paper on the construction of the SYL canal in the Punjab territory so that the people of the state could know about the steps taken by the …
The Union Consumer Affairs Minister Sharad Yadav said that the inquiry committee investigating the mineral water controversy would submit its reports within three weeks.Talking to mediapersons in Chandigarh today, he said that a committee constituted under the supervision of a joint secretary had started collecting samples from all over the …
Worried over the tardy pace of development plans, the Government has decided to give more powers to the revenue divisional commissioners (RDCs) to streamline and accelerate the process of their implementation with a special emphasis on such schemes in the backward Kalahandi-Bolangir Koraut (KBK) region.
Reliance Life Science has filed 25 international patents in stem cell research and has least half a dozen products in the pipeline, products that will enable cloning of human skin and other vital body tissues, Dr Firuza Parikh, director Reliance Life Science said.
The Jammu and Kashmir Government has formulated a draft annual plan of Rs 3000 crore for 2003-04 for the state for submissio to the Planning commission. The current year's annual plan for the state is of the order of Rs 2265 crore.
Kerala would get a total of US $ 250 million as loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), mainly to carry out fiscal and administrative reforms, state Finance Minister K Sankaranarayan said on Thursday. The agreement in this regard had been signed by the Union Government and the ADB, he …
The Uttar Pradesh Government has launched a major developmental programme in the districts adjoining the Indo-Nepal border. The Government has sanctioned Rs 8.32 crore under the border area development programme to be used in 19 blocks of Balrampur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Pilibhit and Shravasti districts during the current …
The Rajasthan High Court has ruled that the right to receive potable water is a basic and fundamental right of the people guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution. The failure of the State to provide this "makes a mockery of that right which stood conferred more than five decades …
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) will create 2.5 lakh jobs for the people of the NE region in the Tenth Five Year Plan period, its chairman Dr Mahesh Sharma said here today. Dr Sharma, straight from the two-day 513th meeting of the KVIC that ended at Itanagar yesterday, …
oil is the lifeline of the world’s eco nomy. Dependence on oil has skewed incomes within nations and altered power relations among them. While oil provides multiple benefits to society, every stage of its lifecycle has harmful effects on health and environment. These are broad in scope and degree. The …
does a marginal improvement in fuel economy make a vehicle green? This is the controversy surrounding a recent proposal of the Bush administration. The proposal aims to increase the fuel economy
It has been a year since Anil Agarwal, the founder editor of Down To Earth, passed away. We remember him every moment. We work as his proxies. We work his dreams; they have become ours, too. His ideas changed many around the world. He changed the way we think. But …
The City of Panjim Corporation Bill 2002 which was assented to by the Governor of Goa on January 23 has been notified and published in an extraordinary official gazette of the government of Goa today. However, much will depend upon the next notification which will have the areas to be …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) general manager Mohanaiah has said that the bank will extend a financial assistance of Rs 1,300 crore to the Andhra Pradesh state government for implementation of rural development programmes.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has stressed on the need for a comprehensive and regular review of the implementation of all rural development programmes, saying the failures are less due to shortage of funds and more because of flaws in implementation. Pointing out that there were thousands of voluntary organisations …
Assam Water Resource Minister Noor Jamal Sarkar today said that his Government was laying special emphasis on overall development of the rural areas through rehabilitation of the poor and downtrodden. Sarkar told PTI here that rural development was also sought to be improved through generation of self-employment avenues and better …
The Kerala Governor, Sikander Bakht, highlighted the Government's plans for major infrastructure development projects in agriculture, fisheries, transport and communications and other sectors. Addressing the legislative Assembly, he said that the Government was continuing a process of restoration and rebuilding of the State's economy.
