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Quantifying the social burden on railway finances

Put simply, the Railways spent Rs 98.44 for every Rs 100 it earned. This was the highest level in 10 years.

Kerala top achiever in meeting sustainable development goals: Niti Aayog

Bihar, Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh were the worst-performing states in this year's index for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Kerala tops Niti's SDG Index, Bihar, Jharkhand, Arunachal worst performers

According to 'SDG India Index 2019', Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim have shown maximum improvement, but states like Gujarat have not shown any progress vis-a-vis 2018 rankings

Best of BS Opinion: Does IBC work for financial companies?

From the manner in which dormant sub-nationalism is coming to the surface to all that could possibly go wrong if the resolution of financial service providers happens under the IBC, here's a selection

NITI member backs 2 GST slabs, says rates should not be revised frequently

The GST, which replaced almost all the indirect taxes, came into force from July 1, 2017, and the rates on goods and services have been revised several times since then

NITI Aayog to draft roadmap for population stabilisation, family planning

India, with a current population size of 1.37 billion, has the second largest population in the world

NITI Aayog plans to bring all medical devices under one regulatory regime

The NITI Aayog has proposed to do away with the need to have manufacturing licences to register a medical device

Relax fiscal deficit limit from 3% to 4% of GDP, states ask Sitharaman

State FMs had met Sitharaman for a pre-Union Budget interaction

NITI Aayog to discuss Medical Devices Bill with stakeholders tomorrow

The government feels that the Ayushman Bharat has triggered an 'unprecedented demand' for medical devices

Budget 2020: Centre may announce sops for states for pollution control

The Commission submitted its interim report for 2020-21 to President Ram Nath Kovind earlier this month

PMO, FinMin to hold Budget 2020 meetings to discuss ideas to boost economy

Besides the scheduled meetings, the sources said, the PMO is expected to hold several meetings with top secretaries, officials on various ongoing schemes

Govt reforms will make India a very competitive, efficient economy: Kant

Replying to a question on the economic growth figures, which are among the lowest in recent years, Kant said these were short-term indicators and that India was on track to be a USD 5 trillion economy

NITI mulls health system for middle class not covered by Ayushman Bharat

The report was released by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar in the presence of Bill Gates, the co-chairman of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Unclogging the liquidity flow

While easing procedures against arbitration awards helps, more needs to be done to boost infra

Green economy to the economy's rescue

India's economy needs a renewed boost of structural reforms, just when a second generation of green policies is also needed

$5-trillion GDP needs 12.4% nominal growth a year, says NITI Aayog

This is 0.4 percentage points higher than estimated by the Economic Survey for 2018-19, owing to a slowing economy

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

Captive production allowed, companies can sell coal in open market

NITI Aayog hasn't rejected offer to bring medical devices under CDSCO: Govt

It also proposes a penalty of up to Rs 1 crore on the manufacturers or importers for faulty medical devices having adverse impacts on patients.

Need to adopt AI to collect more scientific agri-data: Chief Statistician

One of the reason for considerable time gap in availability of quality data, Chand said that the welfare country is still depend on manual reporting from revenue officials.

Low health care expenditure to impact risk-pooling model: NITI Aayog

Think tank plans building up system for middle class, which isn't covered under any health scheme