Household Consumption Expenditure Survey released by NSSO indicates a significant change in spending patterns by consumers. While spending in rural areas increased by 164 per cent and in urban areas by 146 per cent since 2011-12 at current prices.
Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to the Prime Minister, Bibek Debroy, emphasized the need for a new poverty line at a data user conference organized by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in Delhi on Wednesday.
"His Holiness Dalai Lama, with his message of knowledge, tradition, compassion, purity of soul and love, will live a long time and his legacy will live forever. But you, the President of China, you'll be gone and nobody will give you credit for anything," said the former US House Speaker.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian addressing a regular press conference yesterday asked the US to fully recognise the anti-China separatist nature of the Dalai Group and to "stop sending the wrong signal to the world."
The workshop was attended by Executive Committee members of the AIFF, the representatives of the Member/State Associations, and staff at the Football House
The US Congressional delegation visited the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile in Dharamshala on Tuesday. The top delegation, which includes former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arrived in India earlier today.
A Nepali lawmaker on Tuesday tore the budget booklet on the rostrum of the House of Representatives protesting the uneven distribution of the annual budgetary allocations.
"I have considered farmers, youth, women and the poor as the strong pillars of Viksit Bharat. I have started my third term with their empowerment. As soon as the government was formed, the first decision was taken related to farmers and poor families. Whether it is building 3 crore new ho
Decrying the brutal killing of Abdul Basit and the injury inflicted upon his wife Zakaria, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee on Tuesday said that individuals disguised as robbers entered Basit's house, where they fatally shot him, and injured his wife.