New Delhi: Industrial output growth surged 2.5 per cent in March compared to a contraction of 2.8 per cent in same month last year, government data showed on Friday. The figures are higher than the February data when it stood at 0.6 per cent.
Industrial output grew at a meagre rate of one per cent in 2012-13 compared to 2.9 per cent in the previous fiscal.
The industrial output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had increased 2.4 per cent in January against a contraction of 0.6 per cent, which at that time had given indication of a revival.
Manufacturing, which constitutes about 76 per cent of industrial production, grew 3.2 per cent from a year earlier, the statistics office said. Capital goods production, a barometer for investments in the economy, grew an annual 6.9 per cent from a year earlier. In the April-March period, industrial production expanded an annual 1.0 per cent....
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11:06 AM, May 10, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Monday warned of initiating action against those making fake calls to the recently launched 'Dial 100 system', an emergency response number. Of the 50,000 calls made to the 'Dial 100 system', about 20,000 have turned out to be fake, Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad adding, "...So far, it is due to ignorance. Henceforth, we will have to come down...
01:37 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Kanpur: At least 16 persons, including a teenage boy, have been arrested, for allegedly making crank calls to police control room meant for emergency response for locals. According to SSP Yashashvi Yadav, control room was receiving various fraud calls from quite some time from pranksters, who were giving false information about accidents and fire incidents and some even demanded that officials sing a song for them. "Following these repeated calls...
03:45 AM, Apr 15, 2013
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10:46 AM, Mar 28, 2013
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10:44 AM, Mar 16, 2013
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12:20 AM, Mar 16, 2013
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07:46 AM, Mar 08, 2013
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01:11 PM, Mar 06, 2013
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04:41 PM, Feb 25, 2013
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04:27 AM, Feb 23, 2013
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10:32 AM, Feb 20, 2013
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11:27 AM, Feb 17, 2013
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07:29 PM, Feb 05, 2013
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04:10 PM, Feb 05, 2013
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05:57 AM, Jan 29, 2013
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03:20 PM, Jan 21, 2013
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01:20 AM, Dec 25, 2012
New Delhi: The number of rapes in India shot up from 1953 to 2011 by a staggering 873 per cent, the CPI-M's "People's Democracy" said in its latest edition released Thursday. "Sexual crimes against women have been rising alarmingly all across the country," the newspaper said in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a young woman in a bus in Delhi. Amongst the metros, it said Delhi topped the...
05:22 PM, Dec 20, 2012
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