The Planning Commission has started rating all the States based on six parameters to enable the States to improve the regulatory ecosystem for manufacturing, said Planning Commission Member Arun Ma

AGARTALA, February 19: Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chaudhury on Wednesday presented a Rs 124.04 billion tax–free budget with a deficit of Rs 1.58 billion for the 2014–15 fiscal.

The Government today said there is a noticeable decline in below poverty line population in the country between 2004 and 2012.

As per poverty estimates released by the Planning Commission, the percentage of population below poverty line in urban areas has declined from 25.5 per cent in 2004—05 to 13.7 per cent 2011—12, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Girija Vyas informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

Says 10 tasks he set forth would take economy to high growth

He said over 29,000 MW of power generation capacity has been added in the current financial year alone

The government today said the country's installed power generation capacity has more than doubled to 2,34,600 MW in the past 10 years.

With eye on elections, no fresh taxes proposed; budgetary expenditure Rs 43,543 cr

Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today presented the sixth consecutive zero deficit Budget of the National Conference-Congress coalition government. The Rs 43,543-crore Budget presented by the Finance Minister on Thursday was the last Budget of the present coalition and 14th by Rather in his political career of nearly four decades.

New Delhi: Sikkim has become the only state in the country to achieve more than 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved five development projects involving Tk 640 crore, including a pharmaceuticals park project.