PM told ministers, civil servants to look beyond 2024 & focus on completing infra projects. He also said parties' reckless competition of freebies had sidelined cause of nation building.
China's Ministry of Water Resources said the plan would 'unblock the major arteries' of the river system by 2035, boost irrigation and aid to cut the risk of floods and droughts
NaBFID was set up as a development finance institution to help fill the gap in infrastructure financing after commercial banks withdrew from the space due to large defaults between 2010 and 2015.
Assembly polls are scheduled for 10 May. Calling development in city a 'nightmare', BJP says 'unregulated growth has exacerbated challenges & policy makers trying hard to play catch up'.
A blog post on AsiaA blog post on Asian Development Bank says diaspora can help fund developmental projects. It adds that for this, the country should make policies to earn the diaspora’s trust.n Development Bank says diaspora can help fund developmental projects. It adds that for this, the country should make policies to earn the diaspora’s trust.
The government will incentivise civic bodies to improve their finances & set up an Urban Infrastructure Development Fund to create urban infrastructure in tier-II & tier-III cities.
States mapping their essential data, relevant for planning physical and social infrastructure, on National Master Plan, along the lines of central govt's PM Gati Shakti scheme.
The 22-km Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link is on track to meet December 2023 deadline, officials say. It’s also setting the bar by using technologies that have not been seen before in India.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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