Railway Budget 2009-10: 50 railway stations to be of world standard The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Presenting the Railway Budget 2009-10, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that about 50 stations are to be developed into world class stations with international level facilities. | Banerjee said that these stations wo...
Farmers to reap good harvest from budget The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: India's vital but antiquated farm sector may next week finally get the funding it needs to realise its rich potential, with likely big investments in irrigation and seeds aimed at boosting dismal productivity...
Mamata’s inclusive Budget touches all The Statesman ; | NEW DELHI, 3 JULY: In what could be termed as breaking the tradition of more than a decade when major railway projects used to be appropriated by Bihar courtesy the previous railway ministers, Mr Lalu Prasad, Mr Nitish Kumar and Mr Ram Vilas Pasw...
Railway Budget 2009-10: 50 railway stations to be of world standard The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Presenting the Railway Budget 2009-10, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that about 50 stations are to be developed into world class stations with international level ...
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India wilts as monsoon fears grow Asia Times | By Santwana Bhattacharya | NEW DELHI - India could be staring at an imminent drought. It's not the delayed national budget, but the specter of a delayed - or, in large measure, d...
Monsoon revival may end UPA woes The Times Of India | 29 Jun 2009, 0420 hrs IST, Rajeev Deshpande, TNN Text: NEW DELHI: The monsoon seems to have a big say in UPA-2's future...
Edgy market sees equities end little changed The Times Of India | Text: MUMBAI: A session marked with high volatility finally ended little changed Thursday. Even as the Economic Survey painted a healthy picture for the Indian economy, investors shrugged off th...
Over 275,000 schools opened under flagship scheme: Economic Survey The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: India opened 276,903 new schools and appointed 966,000 teachers as part of its flagship Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) programme, the Economic Survey for 2008-09 revealed on Thursd...
Rains sow hopes of robust growth The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: A strong revival in monsoon rains has put to rest fears of a fall in economic growth in the current fiscal. | With monsoon rains, the lifeline of Indian economy, making rapid st...
A tryst with India's communal past Asia Times | By Siddharth Srivastava | NEW DELHI - The demolition of the Babri Masjid (mosque) by Hindu fanatics on December 6, 1992, at Ayodhya in the northern province of Uttar Pradesh is a blot on India's contemporary history. | It exposed the underbelly of dirty communal, caste and minority politics that peaked in the 1990s even as some tapering of this v...