India’s reform-minded prime minister, Narendra Modi, appears to have passed a major test with a budget that pleased economists and investors with pledges to spend more on modernising India’s ageing roads and railways while keeping borrowing in check. The budget presented by Finance Continue Reading
Bangladeshis gathered on Sunday to pay tribute to an American blogger and critic of religious extremism who was hacked to death in Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers in the predominantly Muslim nation. Avijit Roy, an engineer of Bangladeshi origin, was killed by machete-wielding assailants on Thursday while returning from […]Continue Reading
The government is ready to make changes to an executive decree it issued to make it easier for businesses to buy farm land for infrastructure and industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told lawmakers on Friday. The decree is aimed at unlocking hundreds of billions of dollars of projects stuck for want of land, but opposition […]Continue Reading
British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed on Friday to use all means at his disposal to hunt down militants such as “Jihadi John” after the killer was identified as a Kuwaiti-born computer programming graduate from London. The black-clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent was shown in videos released by Islamic […]Continue Reading
1. Infrastructure in investment through public private partnership 2. LPG subsidy announced 3. Disinvestment in loss making unit from 1 crore to 10.3 crore 4. NBFC register with RBI above Rs. 5000 Cr. To be considered financial institutions 5. Accident death risk Rs. 2 lakhs for a premium of Rs.12 per year. Atal Pension Yojana- […]Continue Reading
Property developer DLF Ltd on Friday said it was reviewing an order from the country’s market regulator that fined the company and its top management $8.4 million as part of a broader probe into the firm’s lack of disclosure during its initial public offering. “We are presently reviewing the said orders and after taking appropriate […]Continue Reading
The masked “Jihadi John” killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate from a well-to-do London family who was known to the security services. The black clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent was shown in videos released by Islamic State […]Continue Reading
India’s decrepit state-run train services stand to receive at least a 25 percent boost in investment to over $9 billion, funded solely by falling fuel costs, according to officials familiar with a railway budget set to be unveiled on Thursday. The world’s fourth largest rail network could get even more if Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]Continue Reading
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a declared Hindu nationalist, vowed earlier this month to protect all religious groups at an event organised by the Catholic community, a long awaited reassurance widely seen as a response to the violence. The government said on Wednesday it had boosted security around hundreds of churches in New Delhi after a […]Continue Reading
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will for the first time have a role in governing the Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, at the heart of nearly seven decades of hostility with Pakistan, officials said. Modi, who stormed to power in May, 2014, personally addressed election rallies in the northern state […]Continue Reading
