Budget 2013: the path remains the same

A step-by-step guide on how Union budget is formulated

To start the process, the budget division issues an annual budget circular around the last week of August or the first fortnight of September …

National Water Resources Council approves water policy

Centre will not encroach upon state’s rights, says Prime Minister

Is the government going to scrap the 12th Five Year Plan?

Experts feel this move will erode the gains and lessons learnt from the most inclusive plan so far

MDG-led healthcare policy not comprehensive, says report

In a Union budget wish list, civil society organisations call for course correction in policy and improving access to healthcare in India

Centre’s agriculture scheme completed only 62% projects in 6 years

CAG report reveals Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna, launched to increase agricultural productivity, contains no method to evaluate the …

Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure

Green transportation gets lip service

PPP is the way forward to improve healthcare in India: McKinsey

Union health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, endorses affordable healthcare through private sector

Urban India's deprived lot

India is becoming dominantly urban, and the urban poor, who are increasing in numbers, face exclusion from basic amenities like safe drinking …

Need to scale up power availability in farms up to 2kw/ha: Sharad Pawar

It will increase farm mechanisation and help achieve projected demand of 280 million tonnes foodgrains by 2020

Health goals of 11th Five-Year Plan unmet. 12th Plan hopes to achieve them

Planning Commission's working group recommends repeating last Plan targets in the 12th Plan

Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation

SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars

Thermal power generation set to expand six times

What it means

Mission health for all

What prime minister needs to do to make good his promise on making 12th Five-Year Plan a health plan

Government must pay for healthcare at point of use: WHO expert

India looks to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure on health in 12th Plan

Aircraft may monitor tropical cyclones over India

Four-day conference on Indian Ocean tropical cyclones begins in Delhi

Union Budget: challenges of public provisioning in India

Will the first budget of the 12th Five-Year Plan make a serious effort to plug loopholes in revenue collection and increase spending on social …

Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back

'Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'

Concrete without sand?

The world is sitting over a landfill of possible substitutes for sand