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As call drop menace continues Telecom Secretary J S Deepak today put the blame on large-scale shutting down of towers for "health reasons" and said states are not able to implement their commitments. He also said that the complaints of call drops were like people refusing to allow water tanks on their roof-tops and at...   Read More

Corruption is the biggest constraint being faced by businessmen across states in the country says a survey of economic think tank NCAER. "The results (of the survey) indicate that corruption emerged as the biggest problem" it said adding that business enterprises have consistently ranked corruption as the major obstacle for growth. The NCAER State Investment Potential Index also...   Read More

The Union Budget lacks political boldness as the government has frittered away its political capital on issues irrelevant to the economy said political scientist and president and chief executive of Centre for Policy Research (CPR) Pratap Bhanu Mehta. “There is no political boldness in the budget. The Government’s political capital has been spent (on) cultural...   Read More

New Delhi: The weatherman is getting better at his job. Or so the farmers feel. Reliability of weather information has improved in the past two to four years according to nine out of ten farmers in six states and a Union Territory. The only two exceptions were Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh where more farmers said...   Read More

A report prepared by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) for the agriculture ministry has pegged India’s wheat production in 2015-16 would be 85 million tonnes (mt) — 1.5 mt less than the final estimate of 2014-15. This is in stark contrast with the government’s estimate that production in 2015-16 would be 7.3...   Read More

New Delhi Feb 18 (PTI) Railways freight volume is likely to grow by 2.1 per cent in the next fiscal as compared to its one per cent growth in 2015-16 according to a study. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) study on factors impacting railway freight traffic in India presented to Railway Minister Suresh...   Read More

Railway Freight volume is likely to grow by 2.1 per cent in the next fiscal as compared to its one per cent growth in 2015-16 according to a study. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) study on factors impacting railway freight traffic in India presented to Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said the doubling...   Read More

The country's railway freight traffic growth is all set to double next year says Delhi based think-tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). In a study carried out for the railway ministry NCAER states that the growth will happen on a business-as-usual situation without any major policy shifts. "Indian Railways' freight volume is likely...   Read More

While sentiments regarding production domestic sales exports imports of raw materials pre-tax profits and costs either have remained the same or have shown marginal improvement during the quarter. The business sentiment in the country remained largely unchanged growing by just 0.6% during the quarter ended December a survey by economic thinktank NCAER has found. "NCAER's...   Read More

The business sentiment in the country remained largely unchanged growing by just 0.6 per cent during the quarter ended December a survey by economic thinktank NCAER has found. "NCAER's Business Confidence Index (BCI) remained relatively unchanged in the third quarter of 2015-16. "The 95th round of the Business Expectations Survey (BES) shows that the BCI...   Read More