The first half of Modi 1.0 witnessed the Railways struggling with growing staff and increasing pension costs after the execution of the Seventh Pay Commission and low earnings

India uses only 6 per cent of the world's primary energy even as it accounts for 18 per cent of the world's population and this disparity needs to be plugged

Developing modern high-speed highways criss-crossing the country is a sure-shot way to develop the countryside

Union Budget 2019: In the last year of the Manmohan Singh-led government i.e. FY14 (2013-14) the ministry allocated Rs 11,832 crore and spent Rs 10,447 crore during the same year

Union Budget 2019: In the last five years, the government has made huge investments in the road sector with total investment increasing more than three times from Rs 51,914 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 158,839 crore in 2018-19

Budget 2019: According to a CMIE report, the underspending on education sector by the NDA government was nearly 17 per cent in 2014-15, which was highest in last 10 years

Budget 2019: In India, real estate is said to reach a large market size of $1 trillion by 2030. It is also projected to add a whopping 13 per cent to the country's growing economy and GDP by 2025

India needs to increase its per capita energy consumption by 2.5 times to enter the upper-middle-class income group, and quadruple it to be at par with nations with high human development

Air India lost Rs 491 crore till July 2 due to Pakistan airspace closureDue to closure of airspace by Pakistan, national carrier Air India lost Rs 491 crore till July 2, according to data presented by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in Rajya Sabha. Private airlines SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir lost Rs 30.73 crore, Rs 25.1 crore and Rs 2.1 crore, respectively, the data stated. Pakistan closed its airspace after the IAF's February 26 Balakot strike. Since then, it has only ...

The details of the crashes since 2014-15 were provided in Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik while replying to a question.

Union Budget 2019: From stepping up public spending in labour-intensive areas to giving a fillip to the MSME sector, experts have a host of suggestions for Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a time the news on the unemployment front is getting progressively worse

Major beneficiaries of the amendment are likely to be the business trusts, port trusts and other trusts engaged in a wide range of economic activities, besides utilising vacant land in SEZs.

Union Budget 2019: The common man and industry bodies alike hope that the first budget of the Modi 2.0 government will lower taxes, hike the income tax exemption threshold and revise the Section 80C deduction limit

Union Budget 2019: India's total imports have zoomed up 75 per cent in the past decade, hitting a 15-year peak of $637 billion in the last fiscal. But while the services component has more than doubled in this period, goods imports have gone up by around 70 cent

Budget 2019: Indian economy will reach $3 trillion in current year, it is well within our capacity to reach $5 trillion economy in few years, says FM

Union Budget 2019 Live: With today's budget, the Modi government seeks to reverse weakening growth and investment to regain India's fastest growing economy tag

The economy is facing the biggest slowdown seen in last five years with the GDP growth in the December quarter of FY19 coming down to 5.8 per cent