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One Belt One Road: US shares India's concerns, questions China's rationale

The Belt and Road Initiative, a pet project of Chinese President Xi Jinping, focuses on improving connectivity and cooperation among Asian countries, Africa, China and Europe.

Govt trying to get fuel into GST to lower prices: BJP chief Amit Shah

Amit Shah says Bharatiya Janata Party would never ban reservation

Amit Shah's son to sue website for Rs 100 cr over report; Oppn wants probe

Jay Amit Shah to file criminal defamation case against website; BJP terms report malicious; Congress, Left cry foul

India's solar power installations increase by 36% yoy at 2,170 Mw in Q3

Rooftop solar installations declined by just 16 per cent quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) in Q3 2019, totaling 245 MW compared to 292 MW installed in Q2 2019

Amit Shah says GST will enable India to compete with top global economies

Efforts made to malign GST have come to naught: Amit Shah

Over 200 global economists seek junked NSO report details from govt

Chorus to make junk NSO report public grows

OIL, IOC may get Numaligarh refinery as govt 'wants to keep it' with a PSU

A major reason why the government kept NRL outside the strategic sale of BPCL was its importance to the Assam Accord

Slowdown due to Centre's failed economic policies, says Amit Mitra

India's GDP growth fell to 5 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year and is estimated to have dipped further in the second quarter

Govt finalising IT rules for social media to trace original source of info

Messaging giant WhatsApp has, in the past, drawn flak from the government on the issue of message traceability

Oil price rises on hopes of OPEC cut extension, US-China trade talks

The Wall Street Journal also reported on Thursday that China had invited top U.S. trade negotiators for a new round of talks in Beijing, citing unnamed sources.

At 4.7%, ICRA forecasts lower GDP growth in Q2FY20 on economic slowdown

The GDP and GVA were 5.0 per cent and 4.9 per cent respectively in Q1 and agriculture and services may maintain the growth rate recorded in the first quarter

G20 nations imposed 28 new trade-restrictive measures in 6 months: WTO

The restrictive measures cover an estimated USD 460.4 billion worth of traded merchandise, an increase of 37 per cent over the same period previous year.

Achieving $5-trn GDP target simply out of question: Ex-RBI Guv Rangarajan

The economy has been on steady decline with growth rate slowing from 8.2 percent in FY16 to 6.8 percent FY19

Going for more professionalism in PSUs via equity dilution: Pradhan

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to sell its entire stake in three enterprises and bring down stake below 51 per cent in select PSUs

Govt to now offer coal mines to private companies only for commercial work

Captive production allowed, companies can sell coal in open market

Slowdown due to wrong policy moves like demonetisation, GST: Amit Mitra

Economic growth hit a six-year low of 5 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year

PSU banks disbursed around Rs 2.5 trillion in loans during October: Govt

Of the Rs 2.52 trillion, Rs 1.06 trillion was disbursed towards new term loans, while Rs 46,800 crore was towards new working capital loans

Amid GST delays, poor non-tax mop-up, states went slow on capex in Apr-Sep

The report said Maharashtra and Himachal ran a fiscal surplus in H1, but the numbers in both the states are much lower than that of H1 of FY19

National Clean Air Programme: Tharoor suggests framework to fight pollution

Tharoor asserted that there is a need to work together in a collaborative spirit to deal with this perennial issue.

Odisha govt signs 3 MoUs to improve urban service delivery system

The E-gov foundation of Nandan Nilekani and Srikanth Nadhamuni will provide a full stack of municipal services applications