Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh conducted an aerial survey on Thursday to asses the damage caused by flooding in Shahkot and Sultanpur Lodhi sub-divisions of Jalndhar and Kapurthala districts. read more

Although several changes to better implement the scheme have already been made since its launch in 2016, delayed payouts, verification of claims, and disputes continue to be big hurdles. read more

The Rajasthan Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) has approved Rs 965.65 crore, which is 30% of the project; the remaining 70% of the cost will come from the World Bank as loan. read more

According to officials of the district administration, a 10-member team from the authority met with Ashok Sangwan, divisional commissioner, Gurugram, to learn the practices behind the state’s rise in the ease of doing business ranking. IDAN is responsible... read more

The chair was announced in March to honour Nobel laureate Sen, who was professor of economics at LSE from 1971-82. read more

But booming car sales may impact efforts to preserve Bhutan’s rare status as a carbon negative country -- and an increase in traffic is testing the good humour of its citizens. read more

The nation’s population in the under-19 age group has already peaked, government data show. That means the labor force will grow more slowly from here on out. read more

The construction of the city, known as Amaravati, is the brainchild of the state’s former chief minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, who lost power in elections in May. read more

An indication to this effect was made on the World Bank’s website on Thursday. The website mentioned the present status of “Amaravati Sustainable Infrastructure and Institutional Development Project” as “dropped”. read more

Anshula Kant, the newly-appointed CFO of World Bank, is married to Sanjay Kant, a Varanasi-based chartered accountant. read more

The ruling comes at a sensitive time for Pakistan, which earlier this month signed a $6 billion bailout agreement with the International Monetary Fund to stave off a looming balance of payments crisis. read more

As Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Kant will be responsible for financial and risk management of the World Bank Group, reporting to the President. read more

Calling for a systematic approach focusing on pendency in lower courts, the survey pointed out that district and subordinate courts accounted for 87.54% of the 3.53 crore pending cases. Pendency in the high courts is 12.30%, and at 0.16 %, the least... read more

India has done worse than other growing nations in managing its water resources. A key factor behind this maybe an inefficient agriculture sector, where the use of tube well-based irrigation in the last three decades has shot up read more

The newly elected Australian prime minister clicked a selfie with PM Modi and captioned his photo in Hindi, saying ‘Kithana ache he Modi’ (How nice Modi is). PM Modi, to say the least, is stoked with the gesture. read more