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Public-pvt model for metro projects gets mired in controversy

The blueprint for public-private partnership in building metro rail systems has got embroiled into an ugly spat...

Govt to offload 10 pc in Balco

The UPA has approved the first share sale after it parted ways with the Left. After deferring it once, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs...

CoS to consider cotton export cap

After failing to impose an export ban on iron ore to augment domestic supplies for the steel sector and bring...

Petroleum ministry for another fuel price hike

Not content with the June 5 increase in retail prices of consumer fuels, the petroleum ministry has pitched for another hike...
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Govt depts put off meetings as trust vote looms large

While it’s business as usual for parliamentarians who will vote against each other next Tuesday, the Government...

Deora resists windfall tax on private refiners

Notwithstanding the UPA government’s need for Samajwadi Party’s crucial support in the trust vote...

Petrol with 20% bio-fuel to be mandatory by 2017

The energy crisis weighed over food shortage today with the Group of Ministers on Bio-Fuels setting a new and higher...

Ore export: Iron hot, govt to hit

Frustrated by the continuing contribution of the rising prices of iron ore and its products on the inflation index...

Inflation set to cross 11.7% today, Govt plans ad campaign to set the record straight

With inflation expected to cross the 11.7 per cent mark for the week ending June 21 and elections the political buzz all around...

Govt may allow Indian editions of foreign news, current affairs magazines

With web editions flooding the Internet, the UPA Government plans to tweak the country's media policy to allow foreign...

UPA plan: 8 gas cylinders a year at current rate, extra to cost double

The UPA government has worked out a Rs 3-hike in the retail price of one litre of petrol, Rs 2 for diesel and a new distribution scheme for cooking g

Kerosene users ready to pay more: study

Even as political masters are working overtime to shield kerosene from a price hike, a study by the National Council of Applied Economic Research...

Common minimum hike: Rs 1-2 for fuel, Rs 20 LPG

The government has, in principle, decided to increase prices of petrol by Rs 2 per litre, diesel by Re 1 per litre and cooking gas by Rs 20 per cylind

Deora floats a 3% cess on income tax as oil firms bleed

With ministries of Petroleum and Finance bickering over specific steps to provide hard cash to loss-making state-run oil marketing companies...

From ads to direct-mailing, UPA set to roll out its mega media plan

The Karnataka results come at a time when the UPA government has finally worked out a plan to put its house in order for election year.

Deora wants Rs 2/ litre hike in petrol, Re 1/ litre in diesel

Petroleum minister Murli Deora today presented a strong case for marginal hike in petrol and diesel prices besides seeking...

Post Jaipur blasts, Govt for more security for oil & gas firms

The serial blasts in Jaipur last Tuesday have stoked concerns over the safety of oil and gas installations in the country.

Lok Pal Bill before Cabinet

Four decades on, the opinion is still divided on whether the Prime Minister should be brought under the purview of the proposed Lok Pal...

Working in Govt labs, scientists can now set up their own firms, get equity

Until 1997, graduates and faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology set up 4,000 firms employing 11 lakh people and generated $232 billion in w

Plans to extend mobile reach to borders to tackle signal spillover

India plans to expand the mobile phone reach along its border in a bid to counter the signal spillovers from Pakistan...

During V-P trip, Kazakhs stopped A-I official for carrying over $50,000

Vice-President Hamid Ansari’s first official visit abroad ended in a diplomatic controversy after Kazakhstan customs detained...

Vendetta? Baalu got NDA to cut gas supply fee

Supply Records show that after cutting cost, GAIL sent reminders but Baalu’s son didn’t sign contract.

No order from PMO on Baalu, says Deora

Hold on T R Baalu, help is coming. On Wednesday, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora would take on the Opposition BJP...

PM calls Deora to dine with Ahmadinejad... and talk gas pipeline

Oil minister will seek custody of Iran fuel at Indo-Pak border.

Baalu wants cheap gas for son’s power plant yet to come up

The natural gas that Union Minister and DMK leader T R Baalu has been pulling strings for is for King Power Corporation...
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