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Inequality of urban green spaces

The concluding part of a series looks at how India's most affluent areas are as susceptible to the same flaws as the poorest and most marginalised parts

Pulses, metals, fuel may play spoilsport in cooling CPI inflation

Inflation trends: Mixed signals in Sept trend

Investment in PPP projects shows a decline: Moody's Investor Service

The report says further development in the PPP framework may help stimulate more private investment

Tweak PPP model to boost infrastructure investment: Moody's

Moody's said that historical underinvestment and rapid economic growth are straining India's existing infrastructure

Delhi's Greater Kailash constituency highlights privatised public spaces

The second of a three-part series looks at how India's most affluent areas are as susceptible to the same flaws as the poorest and most marginalised parts

Why thousands of deserving students will never make it to IIT

IITs have admitted that they simply do not have enough teachers or hostels to achieve the government's targets of admitting 1 lakh students in 23 IITs by 2020

Delhi's Greater Kailash constituency highlights complexity of urban governance

India's extremes of diversity and exclusion work together to make urban governance far more complex than it need be

StatsGuru: India's fight against hunger

The International Food Policy Research Institute's Global Hunger Index shows India has slid further down the rankings

Extra conditions for metal scrap import

Cooling inflation offers scope for another rate cut this year: India Ratings

The agency expects another 25 basis points cut in the repo rate in the financial year 2016-17

India and US are partners, not allies: Shivshankar Menon

Menon said that successive Indian govts in the last few decades have done their bit to take the relationship further forward

India will gain by leadership role in Montreal Protocol changes: US advocacy group

India's participation is critical to climate protection since HFCs are "currently the fastest growing climate pollutants"

Women in high paying jobs drive Indian luxury industry: Report

India is home to over 1,200 ultra-affluent women with a combined net worth of about $100 billion

GST lends more weight to India's 8% growth projection: S&P

The latest GDP figures showed that India's growth slowed to 7.1% in the April-June quarter, from 7.9% in Jan-March

StatsGuru: Will the repo rate cut work?

Sand remains in the Customs grease

The finance ministry has amended the notification relating to re-import of exported goods, giving more time for re-import from Bhutan

Why govt is punching below its weight on tax evasion

While the collection from the 'amnesty' scheme has been impressive, the income tax department has not managed to bring new tax payers under its ambit

Where is the money going? RBI official lambasts wallet players on KYC norms

Nanda Dave wondered whether a "conduit" is being provided by not having the details of the end use of funds

Assam would need Rs 2 lakh cr investments to touch double-digit growth: Assocham

The decadal growth clocked by the state during 2004-05 to 2014-14 had been around 6%

Statsguru: Making sense of India's rise in WEF rankings

The report indicates India has made substantial gains on most of the sub-indices