Purvanchal Expressway is a 340-km six-lane project which is estimated to be built at the cost of Rs 23,000 crore. The highway is expandable to eight lanes.

PM Modi was in Azamgarh to lay the foundation stone for the 340-km Purvanchal Expressway which will connect Lucknow with Ghazipur at a cost of Rs 23,000 crore. Modi then left for Varanasi where he inaugurated a slew of development projects.

Although the names of several economists, including Rathin Roy, Sanjeev Sanyal, Nagesh Kumar, and Surjit Bhalla, are doing the rounds, none of them has thrown hat in the ring yet.

Features like train search without login, easy-to-use web interface, alternative accommodation facility, etc, have been incorporated in the new IRCTC portal, whose final version was launched on June 13.

A Donald Trump visit on Republic Day may well be tom-tommed by the government as India's biggest foreign policy coup in the run up to general elections next year.

India's \"impressive development and inclusive growth\" stand at risk if Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not get a chance to lead the country after the next year's parliamentary elections, a top US industrialist has said.

With rupee hitting its lowest against dollar, prices of imported commodities, ranging from petroleum products to electronics went up, driving consumer inflation up. High crude oil prices also made an impact.

Indian economy had slowed down last year due to transitory shocks like demonetisation and the chaotic implementation of the national goods and services tax (GST), but has since bounced back.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development today came out with an explanation on how Jio Institute was accorded such coveted status despite having no physical infrastructure in place.

India has particularly pressed China to open up its market for pharmaceuticals. There is widespread demand in China for Indian anticancer drugs which are often one-tenth the cost of the Western drugs that are available in China.

The DoT nod is significant as reports suggest the process of the proposed deal is being closely watched by the PMO. Being one of the biggest merger deals in telecom makes it even more interesting for foreign investment companies looking for future deals in India.

The newly-opened Samsung plant in Noida which has the capacity to manufacture 1 crore phones per month is expected to create 1,000 more jobs in the country.

The increased government spending is difficult to sustain.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has just completed a year, and it has been an eventful journey.

Business confidence slides in the first quarter of 2018/19 as businesses feel the pinch of GST and brace for policy inaction and higher interest rates, finds the latest Business Today-C fore Business Confidence Survey.

Over Rs 29.41 crore was spent on using the Indian Air Force's ultra-modern transport aircraft -- the C-17 and the C-130J Super Hercules -- to ferry the newly-issued Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 currency notes post-demonetisation.

Last year in June, the consumer electronics major had announced that it would invest Rs 4,915 crore to double its manufacturing capacity for smartphones and refrigerators at its Noida plant.

PMJDY was started with a target to provide universal access to banking facilities starting with basic saving bank account with an overdraft upto Rs 5000 subject to satisfactory operation in the account for six months and RuPay Debit card with inbuilt accident insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh.

State Congress leadership has alleged that state BJP leaders could be involved converting \"black money into white\" through hawala network using the non-regulated digital currencies like bitcoin.

Taking a cue from Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh too will ban use of plastic products by the mid of this month. Talking to ANI, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that an order has been passed to ban the use of plastic in the entire state from July 15.