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Delhi: A socio-economic profile

Delhi has witnessed an unprecedented rise in prosperity over the past decade. At a per capita income of Rs 2.4 lakh in 2014-15, up from Rs 1.2 lakh in 2009-10

Mass medicine scheme needs a booster dose

Despite several attempts, the Jan Aushadhi Scheme, initiated in 2008, continues to face an uphill task in making generic and cheaply priced medicines easily accessible

Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Towards a strategy for climate change talks

As a growing economic power, but lagging behind China does not mean India should not set targets for carbon emissions: only that our targets must reflect the difference in our situations

Plan to leapfrog emission norms fuels a debate

The stringent BS VI norms could help bring down pollution levels further but car makers argue they would escalate cost and compromise safety

Tax sops for card payments is targeted at the wrong end

Though the idea is laudable, the government needs to incentivise the consumer who pays cash instead of the receiver

Finance Ministry's 'compliance window' is an amnesty scheme for black money hoarders

Clever wordplay does not change the fact that the government is going pretty easy on some tax offenders

Will reform bring realty investors back?

The inventory has risen to 83 months in the National Capital Region and 50 months in Mumbai

Modest MSP increase signals prudent policy, says HSBC

Cites limited reach of procurement machinery, suggests government action should maintain its focus on rural infrastructure, increasing crop insurance

StatsGuru: Wealthy poised to become richer across the world

IT raids: Assessee's rights limited

Making company registration easy

Dealing with write-downs

The challenge for auditors is to ensure impairment charges are recorded in a timely manner, while for companies it is important to convey to stakeholders the reasons

Krishi Vigyan Kendras in West UP floundering on resource crunch

Conceptualised to impart on- and off-field training to farmers, these bodies are failing because of poor financial and logistical support

Charging up like never before

Govt hopes to add 0.21 mn Mw capacity by 2022, against 0.25 mn Mw added over 60 years

Debt relief no long-term solution to sugar woes

Experts have called the latest loan to mills a stop-gap arrangement and have reiterated the need to link sugarcane and sugar prifces

StatsGuru: Making sense of the movement in IIP and CPI data

RBI's fears on inflation may not play out

A shock unlikely even if prices of vegetables and pulses go up

Why 'Make in India' will get derailed without logistics

The success of 'Make in India' strategy is contingent on the performance of Indian trade logistics network

Interest-free loans to sugar mills will do more harm than good

The more things change the more they remain the same. For the beleaguered sugar industry, politics has once again taken precedence over economics

A rewarding but tough journey

If getting students admitted was tough in the first year, getting them to stay proved tougher still. Adapting to their new life and environment, without the support of their parents, was not easy