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  Interim Budget 2014: Sub-Rs 2k mobiles to cost more

  February 21, 2014 15:13 IST

  New Delhi: Mobile phones priced at less than Rs 2,000 will cost more after Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed to levy a uniform excise duty of 6 per cent on all handsets. Chidambaram's proposal to

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  Interim Budget 2014: Power generation capacity has doubled in past 10 yrs

  February 17, 2014 16:38 IST

  New Delhi: The Government today said the country's installed power generation capacity has more than doubled to 2,34,600 MW in the past 10 years.“India's power generation capacity 10 years ago (2004) was 1,12,700 MW, it

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  Interim Budget 2014: Exchange rate has stabilised, says Chidambaram

  February 17, 2014 15:45 IST

  New Delhi: The government on Monday said the Indian currency has fared better than those of other emerging economies and the exchange rate has stabilised. Risks to capital flows were accentuated due to volatile global

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  Interim Budget 2014: Hopeful and modest, at best

  February 17, 2014 15:37 IST

  New Delhi: The government on Monday said the fiscal deficit for the current financial year will be contained at 4.6 per cent of GDP.“Let me begin with the good news. Fiscal deficit for 2013-14 will

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  Interim budget reactions: BJP, BSP, BJD leaders say, nothing new

  Politics | February 17, 2014 13:06 IST

  New Delhi: BJP leader and former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh today said that there was nothing new in Finance Minister P Chidambaram's interim budget speech, but he nevertheless welcomed the "One Rank, One Pension" announcement

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  Interim Budget 2014: Chidambaram may dole out some sops

  February 17, 2014 10:59 IST

  New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram may dole out some sops while doing a tightrope walk to keep the fiscal deficit under check when he presents the interim budget for 2014-15 in Parliament on Monday