A Carnegie paper estimates India's GDP will grow at 5.9% p.a. till 2050, compared to China's 5.6%
Jaimini Bhagwati / March 31, 2010, 0:17 IST

There is an increase of 19.65 per cent in the plan outlay of Rs 1,985 crore announced for Udupi district for the year 2010-11.

MP D V Sadananda Gowda releasing credit plan for 2010-11 in Udupi on Monday.
The credit plan was launched at the district-level review meeting held here on Monday.
The plan outlay for the last year was Rs 1,659 crore.

Pointing out that the current export duty was grossly inadequate to contain rising export of iron ore from the country, steel minister Virbhadra Singh has sought the Prime Minister

DAVID BLOOM
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND DEMOGRAPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

IN recent years, the Economic Survey, tabled in Parliament during the Budget session before the presentation of the Union Budget, has come to be viewed as a foreteller of the government

lTo commence new entertainment facilities like Zorb ball, radio control cars, skate board, gas balloon tourism, dirt course of motorbikes, etc
lTo set up INsstitute for Adminstrative Careers to prepare Goan youth for all-Indian competitive exams.
lAppointment of Laboratory Assistants in all high schools.
lUpper limit of Goa Scholar scheme raised to Rs 6 lakh

P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE: Singapore companies

Calls for Rs 41-lakh-crore investments in infrastructure.

Indrani Dutta

KOLKATA: Presenting the 2010-11 Budget in the State Assembly on Monday, West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Kumar Dasgupta unveiled a financial statement that laid priority on minority affairs and madrasa education, backward classes' and women's development and emphasis on job creation.

Nayanima Basu / New Delhi March 23, 2010, 1:22 IST

Notwithstanding the widespread protest against the proliferation of special economic zones (SEZs) in the country, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is organising a seminar on the tax-free conclaves in Singapore tomorrow in order to rope in global investors.