Mumbai: With fiscal deficit widening to 84.4 per cent of the budgeted target in the first seven months and the revenue collection falling way below the target, the government will have to undertake more austerity
Bhubanewar: Amidst pandemonium by opposition Congress MLAs, Finance Minister Prasanna Acharya today presented the supplementary budget of Rs 7,144.58 crore with provision of more than Rs 2,000 crore for restoration and rehabilitation of the cyclone
New Delhi: Coming out in favour of free trade pacts, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that India "clearly and unambiguously" needs to ink more such agreements. India has signed free trade pact
Tehran: A report by an Iranian media website says China has agreed to finance USD 20 billion in development projects in Iran using oil money not transferred to the Islamic Republic because of international sanctions.The
New Delhi, July 4: The draft policy on the usage of surplus coal from captive mines circulated to concerned ministries is likely to be finalised by this November-end, a coal ministry source said on Thursday.The
New Delhi, Aug 1: After a gap of about four years, P Chidambaram today returned as head of the Finance Ministry amid urgency to give a boost to the sagging economy. Known for taking tough
New Delhi, Nov 23: India's external debt rose by 3.4 per cent in the first three months of the current fiscal to touch USD 316.9 billion as on June 30, 2011, on account of an
New Delhi, May 26: After petrol, price of diesel, LPG and kerosene are likely to be hiked next month when a ministerial panel headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee meets to decide on passing rise
Kolkata, May 21: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms.Her other departments are Information and
New Delhi, Apr 11: A decision to videograph the proceedings of the Joint Committee on Lokpal Bill as sought by Gandhian Anna Hazare have to taken by the drafting panel itself, its member Union Minister
Kolkata, Apr 4 : Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee has said there was no constiutional bar on introducing Vidhan Parishad (Upper House) as suggested by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee in
Mumbai, Mar 27: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today termed as “conjectures and media speculations” the reported differences between him and the Reserve Bank of India on capping FDI at 49 per cent in new commercial
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