Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren is hopeful that Wednesday’s meeting with the Niti Aayog team would help bridge the gap between the Centre and the state. “They have assured that a me...

The Union government on Thursday said no scientific body suggests that vaccination of children against Covid-19 should be a condition for reopening schools, but inoculation of teachers, school employe...

A nine-member team comprising Bengal ministers, and Trinamul MPs and MLAs on Tuesday sad they had elicited a positive response from Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Sekhawat and NITI Aayog vic...

A nine-member team from Bengal comprising four ministers, MPs and MLAs is slated to meet Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar next week to demand...

The Modi government has said it would offer incentives to states to monetise their assets, which is over and above the Rs 6 lakh crore NMP programme.   “The central government will al...

The Centre plans to monetise Rs 6 lakh crore (trillion) worth of central assets over the next four years under a plan announced earlier in the 2021-22 budget to boost infrastructure spending and spur ...

The Narendra Modi government plans to farm out a vast trove of assets to the private sector over the next four years to raise Rs 6 lakh crore through an elaborate asset monetisation exercise. “...

  Government's think tank Niti Aayog has valued government telecom assets at Rs 35,100 crore which can be monetised by financial year 2024, according to the National Monetisation Pipeline re...

The Modi government is being riven by dissension — and this time it is over the health of the state-owned power distribution companies. Controversy within the government erupted over a fai...

The 70th general assembly of the United Nations called on countries “to ensure that all people have the same opportunities to live a better life without compromising our planet” as part of...