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Maharashtra, UP show India what to expect from GST

The GST should make sense financially for both states but it is a political hot potato, with the Centre getting a far larger domain of India's tax administration

Falling global gas prices bonanza for India

This is good news for India's beleaguered power-from-gas sector, ridden with unused power plants and struggling banks that have loaned billions to these projects

How Indonesian fires are affecting global climate

Daily carbon emissions from the fires now exceed the daily carbon-dioxide output from the US economy and emissions were in excess of Germany's annual CO2 yield

How disruptions hurt Parliament's Upper House

During the previous session, the Rajya Sabha worked no more than nine hours over a three-and-half week period

Delhi's pollution one-and-a-half times worse than Beijing

The particulate matter concentration level in Delhi has been higher than Beijing for six out of seven days, based on a comparison of daily averages

2 million cases await justice for decade or more

At current rates, it will take at least eight years to clear the backlog, putting considerable strain on the exchequer and litigants

Gujarat's courts need 287 years to clear pending cases

Across India, lower courts, burdened by more than 25 million pending cases, need at least 12 years to clear the backlog

Paris Climate talks: trouble for the world and India

A temperature rise beyond 2 degree celsius from pre-industrial levels, will be catastrophic. That doesn't leave much wriggle room for India

Up to 415 mn Indians have never been to an educational institution

At 242 mn, 58%, or more than half the total are female; the numbers are worse in rural areas

Why 781 Indians die needlessly every winter

The deaths are largely proportional to homeless population in a state, and compliance with the SC's orders to provide better shelters

Maharashtra has most debt, Tamil Nadu borrowing the fastest

Govt debt can either fund a humming state economy or can be indicative of a government living beyond its means

Delhi November air quality threatened by Punjab farm fires

In October and November, farmers in Punjab and Haryana burn their fields to cheaply clear paddy stubble, raising PM2.5 levels in neighbouring Delhi

Parity for 68 mn women in workforce by 2025 could boost India GDP by $700 bn

Gender parity to add 1.4% to India's GDP; as much as 70% of this would come from raising the proportion of women in the labour force from 31% today to 41%

What Nitish Kumar must do for Bihar: Create wealth, jobs

The Bihar CM should press on with policies that offer educational opportunities and economic progress, especially jobs, wealth creation and infrastructure

Global terror death toll surges 9-fold over 15 years

The global economic cost of terrorism was $283 billion over the past 15 years, reaching a record high of $53 billion in 2014

Bank fraud doubles in one year

Bank fraud jumped 100% in the year since Modi took office, prompting the RBI to set up a fraud registry, that the PMO also reviewed, to curb the menace

How Grand Alliance turned vote share to seats in Bihar

BJP, despite being the single largest party according to vote share, won only 53 seats, registering a share-to-seat multiplier of 2.2

Cheap Chinese imports threaten Indian MSMEs

MSMEs, the country's largest non-farm employers, face bleak future as cheap Chinese imports flood market

In Haryana, a pioneering incentive fails young women

More than half the families that avail of state funds for girls' education spend it on their marriage instead, data shows

Indian middle class is 24 million, not 264 million: Credit Suisse

The Credit Suisse report has estimated the middle class on the basis of their wealth rather than their income