Due to "poor" administration of the urban development ministry and state governments at least 72 projects for infrastructure development in five mega cities were dropped and 62 are yet to be started.

Hong Kong has replaced Tokyo as the world's most expensive city, and Asia is the most expensive region, according to a global survey released on Monday which placed Johannesburg as the cheapest place

The International Monetary fund on Wednesday approved $ 114 million tranche for Pakistan under the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility. The total disbursements under the programme amounts to $ 343

Punjab Chief Minster Capt. Amarinder Singh today held extensive confabulations with World Bank Country Director of India Edwin Lim and other officials to discuss modalities for seeking financial help

Rich countries should give poor nations greater access to their markets but developing nations also have a responsibility to build trade among themselves and pursue rational economic policies,

The Centre today finalised the 2002-03 annual plan for Andhra Pradesh at Rs, 10,100 crore. The outlay for the Tenth Five-Year Plan for the state has been pegged at Rs 46,614 crore. The Plan size was

The 2002-2003 Annual Plan for Goa was fixed at Rs. 586 crores and the outlay for the Tenth Plan was projected at Rs. 3,200 crores. This was finalised at a meeting between the Deputy chairman of the

Even while according top priority to the restoration of Tamil Nadu's fiscal health, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today set 'development goals', and urged the state planning commission to

The Centre, with a view to ensuring faster implementation of several rural development programmes, is convening a two-day conference of project directors of district rural development agencies

The Group of Eight (G8) summit at Kananaskis, Canada, has raised great expectations of a 'Marshall plan for Africa', That may have been asking for too much. After all, the original Marshall plan had