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  PM Modi hails President Murmu's address as a 'resonant outline' for Viksit Bharat

  India | January 31, 2025 16:08 IST

  PM Narendra Modi hailed President Droupadi Murmu's address to Parliament as a "resonant outline" for Viksit Bharat, highlighting India's economic reforms, infrastructure growth, healthcare advancements, and digital transformation.

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  Manmohan Singh death: CWC members pay tributes to former PM in Delhi

  India | December 27, 2024 23:32 IST

  Manmohan Singh dies: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92 on Thursday night at AIIMS, New Delhi. Known as the architect of economic reforms, Singh served as India’s 13th PM from 2004 to 2014.

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  Ratan Tata’s 1996 letter to PV Narasimha Rao praising economic reforms goes viral

  Trending | October 16, 2024 9:04 IST

  A handwritten letter from Ratan Tata to former PM PV Narasimha Rao has gone viral, praising Rao’s pivotal role in India’s economic liberalisation in 1996. Shared by Harsh Goenka, the letter highlighted Tata’s gratitude for Rao’s “courageous and far-sighted” reforms that integrated India.

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  Union Budget 2024: Timeline of major milestones that shaped Indian economy

  Budget | July 22, 2024 20:04 IST

  In over 77 years of India's independence, the nation has taken giant leaps to become the fifth-largest economy in the world. As the country awaits what the budget brings, here are some of the most significant events that changed the course of our economy.

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  S&P upgrades India's ratings: What led to this upgrade and what are different types of ratings?

  Business | May 30, 2024 18:31 IST

  S&P Global Ratings has upgraded India's credit rating outlook from stable to positive, citing policy stability, deepening economic reforms, and high infrastructure investment as crucial drivers of sustained long-term growth. The sovereign rating remains at 'BBB-', the lowest investment grade.

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  Argentina: Thousands protest outside Congress against President Milei's 'shock therapy' reforms

  World | December 21, 2023 20:17 IST

  Thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest against the government's austerity plans, after Milei signed a decree outlining reforms to privatise state-owned companies and ease government regulation. Earlier, Argentina's peso was devalued by over 50 per cent.

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  PV Narasimha Rao 'father of economic reforms' in India: CJI NV Ramana

  India | August 21, 2021 12:22 IST

  SC judge Justice L Nageswara Rao and former SC Judge justice Raveendran will be the life Trustees of Arbitration Centre and they will co-opt some more members in future, Justice Ramana said.

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  Economic Package: FM Sitharaman to address press conference at 4 PM today

  Business | May 13, 2020 11:25 IST

  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address a press conference at 4 PM today. Sitharaman is likely to provide the breakup of Rs 20 lakh crore economic package which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

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  US Commerce Secy looks forward to economic reforms with Modi's 'strong, decisive mandate'

  World | June 14, 2019 9:50 IST

  US commerce secretary Wilbar Ross mounted a strong defence of American trade policies and said: "We will continue to work diligently with the Indian government and our private-sector partners to eliminate barriers to US products."

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  Ravi Shankar Prasad accuses Rahul Gandhi of misleading people on economic reforms

  India | November 20, 2018 23:21 IST

  The Union minister further said 2.24 lakh fake companies were caught after demonetisation was announced.

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  2018-19 not likely to be 'populist', will reflect govt's commitments: PMEAC

  Business | December 10, 2017 11:57 IST

  The government, Roy said, will come with yet another good budget, which is likely to be presented on February 1.

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  S&P keeps India's sovereign rating unchanged at 'BBB-minus'; govt says action unfair

  Business | November 24, 2017 19:05 IST

  Standard & Poor's on Friday maintained its sovereign rating on India stable at ‘BBB-’ while keeping its outlook for India stable.

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  5 key economic reforms by PM Modi that led Moody's upgrade India's govt bond rating to Baa2

  Business | November 18, 2017 10:38 IST

  Reforms pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in recent years form the primary basis of the rating upgrade by Moody's Investor Service.

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  'Feel Good' factor behind PM Modi's unfazed popularity across India : Pew Research

  India | November 16, 2017 13:40 IST

  More than eight out of ten people believe that economic conditions are ‘good’, an assessment which is 19 percentage points higher than what was immediately before the 2014 general elections.

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  PM Modi's overwhelming public support remains unchanged in North India, rises in West and South India: Pew Survey

  India | November 16, 2017 11:46 IST

  PM Modi’s favourable rating is 31 percentage points higher as compared to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, which is 30 points more than that of Rahul Gandhi.

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  India moves up by one place in World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index, ranks 130th among 190 countries

  October 25, 2016 23:28 IST

  India continues to rank low at 130th position in terms of Ease of Doing Business, managing to move up by only a single rank.

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  Govt’s urge to control, judiciary’s urge to expand inconsistent with economic reforms: Arun Jaitley

  July 25, 2016 14:51 IST

  Advocating a role of facilitator for the government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the government’s urge to control everything has to be restrained in a liberalised economy. “Government then have to become facilitators.

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  There is a crisis of confidence in the govt: Former PM Manmohan Singh

  Politics | February 13, 2016 7:09 IST

  New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said there is a crisis of confidence in the government and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must give "every Indian" the confidence that he cares for people's

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  IMF hopeful of India implementing 'critically important' reforms

  February 05, 2016 23:53 IST

  Washington: Bullish on India, IMF chief Christine Lagarde has said she is hopeful that the Indian government would be able to implement a series of "critically important" economic reforms including GST for unleashing the country's

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  Reform to transform: PM Modi underlines govt's goal for India

  Politics | January 29, 2016 22:32 IST

  New Delhi: Elucidating India's progress over the past year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to India has increased by 39 per cent in the last 18 months in