The BJP government announced a slew of schemes after it assumed power in 2014 winning 336 Lok Sabha seats out of 543 seats. Work under most of these schemes is still under progress an year ahead of General Election 2019.

This ferry service will be initiated under the Sagar Mala project - government's initiative to modernize India's ports.

The Centre will soon come out with a scheme to revive various stalled power plants in the country, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday.

In a landmark judgement, the Uttarakhand High Court on Monday accorded the status of \"living human entities\" to the Ganga and Yamuna, two of India's most sacred rivers.

The first Budget since demonetisation has been a careful exercise by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. It caters to the core constituency - farmers and lower income people - while not introducing anything that hurt industry.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday presented Union Budget 2017-18 in Lok Sabha. 

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented BJP government's fourth Budget on February 1, 2017.

In a bid to ensure efficient use of power, a Parliamentary panel on Tuesday recommended bringing all government buildings within the purview of energy efficiency norms in a time-bound manner.

In a burst of action, the 90 year old organisation is being restructured to make it more nimble. A digital initiative raymondnext.com is meant to counter the threat from e-tailers.

\"I am very happy to announce that the government headed by me would give Amma mobile phones to 20,000 social SHG trainers in the first phase, at a cost of Rs 15 crore,\" Jayalalithaa, who is fondly called as 'Amma' by her followers, said in a suo motu statement in the House.

The new Companies Act lays down clearly what constitutes corporate social responsibility and what does not. But a few concerns remain.

Cairn India's ambitious exploration project may make its oil block in Barmer the country's biggest in three years. Cairn is already a success story, having drilled 201 wells in Barmer over the last 15 years.

She has made her mark with out-of-the-box business solutions.

With some 48,000 Shakti Ammas and 30,000 Shaktimaans, HUL reaches over three million households in 100,000 villages in 15 states.

Newsmaker of the last fortnight: Akhilesh Yadav, Pratik Pota, Chhavi Rajawat, Pradeep Sindhu and Punitha Arumuga.

The Indian arm of Unilever, under the leadership of Harish Manwani and Nitin Paranjpe, seems to have shed its margin obsession now. In fact, over the past five quarters, the company has successfully driven its volume sales up at the cost of profit margins, or the ratio of profit to revenues.

HUL's Shakti programme deploys thousands of pedalling distributors.

In 2010, the CEO of HUL made accountants, production and human resources people go out and meet consumers in villages across India. Just as he did himself - and there was learning. Listen to the interview

The rural Indian economy, growing at 8-10 per cent every year, will be adding $90-100 billion of new consumption in the next five years, over the current base of $240-250 billion.