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India for early conclusion of services and investment FTA with Asean: PM

Sunday 25 October '09

Saying that India’s future and economic interests would be served best by greater integration with its Asian partners, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
Infra projects in India of immense importance, says Japan’s Hatoyama

Sunday 25 October '09

India and Japan today resolved to strengthen their strategic and global partnership with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that...
Brahmaputra dam, Arunachal, visas on table, Singh meets Wen today

Saturday 24 October '09

The most anticipated meeting of the ASEAN and East Asia Summit will take place at the Thai beach resort town of Hua Hin tomorrow....
Asean calls for more FTAs

Saturday 24 October '09

Asking its member-countries to embrace pan-Asian economic ties, the Association of South Asian Nations (Asean) today said it should now actively pursue achieving regionwide Free Trade Agreements....
Govt plans to offload 15% stake in SAIL

Wednesday 21 October '09

The government is all set to embark on another big-ticket disinvestment by planning to offload “around 15 per cent...
Ministry proposes cess to raise funds for rail projects

Tuesday 20 October '09

The Indian Railways is fighting a grim battle to rescue its financially unviable projects as part of the state-run monolith’s...
India must report climate change progress before FTA talks: EU

Thursday 15 October '09

Hardeining its position on the stalled India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks, the 27-nation European Union has said that India...
SteelMin takes up Arcelor Mittal’s land issue

Monday 12 October '09

With the world’s biggest steel producer Arcelor Mittal expressing serious resentment over the delay in land acquisition in Jharkhand and Orissa...
Ministry seeks OK to use PSU stake sale funds

Thursday 8 October '09

The spectre of rising fiscal deficit has forced the government to look at using disinvestment to fund its big-ticket social sector programmes.
PM asks Plan panel to hit the road

Wednesday 7 October '09

Concerned over the progress of the government’s flagship programmes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed the Planning Commission...
Tata Steel’s UK staff resents non-payment

Tuesday 6 October '09

Company says negotiations for 2009-10 still underway....
Centre, states slug it out over MMDR clauses

Monday 5 October '09

The Centre’s ambitious plans for the mining sector hit a roadblock after the mining ministry and the mineral-rich states failed to reach a consensus....
Ministries’ war over amending MMDR Act gets messier

Wednesday 30 September '09

It’s a turf war on interests of PSUs in mining....
No Plan funds for women mission

Tuesday 29 September '09

'National Mission for Empowerment of Women can’t get Rs 7,500 cr during downturn’...
ArcelorMittal risks losing coal block

Tuesday 29 September '09

Coal ministry threatens ArcelorMittal and GVK Power with de-allocation if they don’t use the coal mines jointly allocated to them....
Competitive bidding for coal blocks

Monday 28 September '09

After managing to secure the consensus of the mineral-rich states, the mines ministry is preparing to seek approval of the Union Cabinet...
Mines ministry looks at 10 pc cess to create Rs 2,000 crore national fund

Wednesday 23 September '09

The mines ministry has proposed the creation of a national fund by levying a cess of 10 per cent on royalties on all mine...
Delays in 145 Rlys projects ups cost by Rs 40K cr

Tuesday 22 September '09

As many as 145 projects of the Indian Railways have been delayed by several years resulting in a cost overrun of an estimated Rs 40,000 crore.
Govt to soon de-allocate 40 coal blocks from idling companies, forfeit their bank guarantees

Tuesday 22 September '09

Upset with companies idling on their captive coal blocks, the coal ministry is likely to soon begin the process of de-allocating...
Steel cos want their interests protected in MMDR Act

Tuesday 22 September '09

With the Mines Ministry going full throttle to enact the Mines and Minerals Scientific (Development and Regulation) Act 1957...
Hike export duty on iron ore to 10 pc: Steel Minister to FM

Monday 21 September '09

Arguing that the competitiveness of the Indian steel industry will be seriously jeopardised if iron ore exports continued unabated...
SteelMin panel against PSU merger, wants them to be stand-alone units

Thursday 17 September '09

The much-touted proposal of a merger between NMDC and KIOCL is unlikely to fructify as a high-powered committee...
After protests, Govt changes norms: Dalit land first choice for NREG work, small farmers next

Wednesday 16 September '09

Land belonging to Scheduled Castes and/or Scheduled Tribes will be the first to be earmarked for works under the National Rural Employment...
Coal, law ministries spar over who chairs regulator

Monday 14 September '09

The UPA government’s efforts to set up a regulator for the coal sector has hit a roadblock with sharp differences emerging between the Law and Coal ministries....
Food security as per govt’s poverty estimates: EGoM

Monday 14 September '09

In a move that is bound to trigger angry reactions from the states, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has decided that the estimation of the Below Poverty Line....
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