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  Cabinet approves raising FDI cap in defence to 49 percent, opens up railways

  India | August 06, 2014 22:13 IST

  New Delhi: Moving ahead with the economic reforms, the Cabinet tonight cleared the long-delayed proposal for raising FDI limit in defence to 49 per cent and fully opened up the railway infrastructure segment, like high-speed

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  Government seeks Congress support for Insurance Bill; open to new ideas

  Politics | August 03, 2014 17:10 IST

  Hyderabad: Noting that the government is ready to consider any “meaningful” suggestions on the Insurance Bill, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today appealed to opposition Congress and other parties to pass it in the current

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  Insurance Bill to be taken up by RS on Monday

  Politics | July 31, 2014 20:51 IST

  New Delhi: The Insurance Bill, the NDA government's first major reform initiative proposing to raise the FDI cap in the sector to 49 per cent, will be brought to the Rajya Sabha on Monday despite

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  FDI jumps to 8-month high of USD 3.6 bn in May

  July 17, 2014 20:53 IST

  New Delhi: The foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into India more than doubled to USD 3.60 billion in May, the highest in the last eight months.In May 2013, the country had received FDI worth USD

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  Railways get proposals worth Rs 15,000 cr in PPP mode: Gowda

  India | July 15, 2014 21:17 IST

  New Delhi: Indian Railways have received proposals totalling Rs 15,000 crore for development of various projects under the PPP mode, Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda said today.Gowda also defended the recent 14.2 per cent passenger fare

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  Foreign investors will not serve halwa to us: Lalu

  Politics | July 14, 2014 21:41 IST

  Ranchi: RJD chief Lalu Prasad today said the Narendra Modi government “is playing the PPP flute” to invite foreign investors in defence and railways to “earn and go away”.“Now they are playing the PPP (public

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  'Decision to raise FDI limit in defence significant step': Arun jaitley

  Politics | July 13, 2014 14:15 IST

  New Delhi: Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today said the decision to raise FDI limit in defence sector to 49 per cent was a “significant step” in establishing indigenous military industry and suggested that any further

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  Modi government putting extra burden on people: TMC

  Politics | July 13, 2014 12:15 IST

  Sandeshkhali (WB): The Trinamool Congress today accused the Narendra Modi government of putting extra burden on the people by raising oil prices.  “Modi after coming to power had said that ‘acche din' has come. But

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  More tax concessions when economy improves: Finance Minister

  July 13, 2014 9:56 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today promised more concessions in income tax when the economy improves.“We do not want a high taxation regime. It was because of the high taxation regime of the previous

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  CPI(M) holds protest against NDA govt's policies

  Politics | July 12, 2014 12:18 IST

  Jammu: Leaders of CPI(M) and its trade union wing CITU today held protest here and alleged that the NDA government at the Centre was “fast moving” towards privatisation of the country's economy by seeking PPP

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  Arun Jaitley hopeful of BJP support on 49% FDI in insurance

  Politics | July 11, 2014 12:28 IST

  New Delhi: Defending his decision to raise foreign investment cap in the insurance sector to 49 per cent, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has expressed confidence that the proposal would get the support of his party,

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  Budget lacks focus in crucial areas: Naveen

  Politics | July 10, 2014 20:06 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Slamming the union budget, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said it lacked focus in areas like agriculture, irrigation and the social sector, while the country was hit by inflation coupled with a prevailing

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  Raising FDI in defence 'will harm national security': Antony

  July 10, 2014 19:46 IST

  New Delhi: Attacking the NDA government for raising the FDI limit to 49 per cent in the defence sector, former Defence Minister AK Antony today said that previous governments had overcome the “pressure tactics” of

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  People disappointed with Budget, hopes for 'achhe din' dashed: SP

  Politics | July 10, 2014 18:57 IST

  Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party today said the Union Budget has “highly disappointed” the people who were expecting that the BJP-led government would usher in ‘achhe din'.“Crores of people who were expecting ‘achhe din' from the

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  Union Budget 2014-15: Kejriwal slams Union Budget, calls it a dud

  Politics | July 10, 2014 18:57 IST

  New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday termed the Union budget as a "dud", saying it has nothing to offer to any section of the society and has missed out on important issues

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  Nitish Kumar dubs Modi govt budget as 'disappointing'

  Politics | July 10, 2014 17:52 IST

  Patna: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today described as “disappointing” the maiden general budget of Narendra Modi government as there was nothing for backward states like Bihar to cheer “acche din” (good days).“There is no

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  Government of FDI, by FDI and for FDI: Mamata

  India | July 10, 2014 16:23 IST

  Kolkata: Terming the Union Budget as ‘visionless, missionless and actionless', West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today dubbed the Narendra Modi regime as a ‘government of the FDI, by the FDI and for the FDI'.

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  NDA government of FDI, by FDI, for FDI: Mamata Banerjee

  Politics | July 10, 2014 15:49 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday slammed the union budget 2014-15, saying the Narendra Modi-led government has "become a government of the FDI, by the FDI and for the FDI".Presenting his maiden union

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  Budget 2014: Defence Ministry gets Rs 2.29 lakh crore

  July 10, 2014 14:35 IST

  New Delhi: As part of military modernization drive, Government today allocated Rs 2.29 lakh crore for the Defence Ministry in the Budget, marking an increase of around 12.5 per cent from the last fiscal as

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  AAP says rail budget lacks long term vision

  India | July 08, 2014 20:28 IST

  New Delhi: The AAP today termed the rail budget as a missed opportunity and said the Narendra Modi government could have used its maiden rail budget to spell out its long term vision for the