Agreeing to examine the validity of a controversial Punjab law annulling its water agreements, the Supreme Court issued notices to the Centre, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and three other states on the

Poverty line is fine, but that should not be the only yardstick for measuring poverty. Noted economist Kaushik Basu opined, "the poverty may have gone down as per the National Sample Survey

The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, laid out today the roadmap for fulfilling the national mission of making India a developed country and meeting the major challenge of uplifting 260 million people

The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, while cautioning the developed countries against imposing non-tariff barriers, said popular support for economic liberalisation would collapse if the

Lucknow and Sholapur have been added to the list of cities which will be supplied with low sulphur content petrol and diesel by April 1 next year. Originally these cities were to be covered in the

The Centre has, in a major initiative, proposed changes in the Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana scheme, envisaging raising the Central subsidy from 50 per cent to 70 per cent, to enable the urban poor

Decentralised alternatives such as a micro-hydel project and an indigenous primary education system create a new development paradigm in the Narmada Valley in

The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.7 million last year, and the median household income declined by 1.1 per cent, the Census Bureau reported on September 26. The worsening

The Indian operations have contributed significantly to the third-quarter growth of Pepsico International, the cola major said in its third-quarter filing with the securities Exchange Commission. It