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Plan panel to undertake Mid Term Review

Wednesday 8 July '09

Conscious of the fact that the current meltdown could have damaged the development strategy to a point where there is an urgent need for major changes in the 11th Plan...
Plan panel for extending NREGP to entire family

Monday 6 July '09

Suggesting that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) has been a key instrument in financially...
CoalMin calls meeting of states to ensure transparent block allocation

Monday 6 July '09

In a bid to introduce competitive bidding in the allocation of coal blocks to ensure greater transparency in their allocation...
Flagships to get additional Rs 15,000 crore

Saturday 4 July '09

Taking forward its strategy to counter the global meltdown through enhanced spending, the Union Budget for 2009-10 is all set to provide an additional Rs 40,000 crore to the gross budgetary support (GBS).
Variable trade can ensure food security: Plan panel

Wednesday 1 July '09

Amid the debate on a proposed legislation on food security, the Planning Commission has suggested...
‘Hiking import duty on steel to 10% may not be unjustified’

Tuesday 30 June '09

In his first stint as a Cabinet minister, Virbhadra Singh is determined to ensure time-bound execution...
More steel giants may shoulder burden of smaller units

Monday 29 June '09

Keen to bolster the wherewithal of its smaller behemoths to withstand the ongoing economic downturn...
An all-new mines act in the works

Monday 29 June '09

Is the Mines Ministry preparing an entirely new legislation and consigning the existing MMDR Act to oblivion...
Mines ministry buries the Ola controversy

Tuesday 23 June '09

The mines ministry has shelved the proposal to allocate the prized Ramandurg iron ore mines to...
Govt not sure how many need food security

Monday 22 June '09

Ahead of finalising the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), the government is struggling first to...
PSUs unlikely to receive any budgetary support

Friday 19 June '09

In its effort to devise new ways to raise resources in order to fund its mega social sector programmes...
CIL disinvestment unlikely before start of next fiscal

Thursday 18 June '09

The Coal Ministry intends to divest 10 per cent stake in its behemoth Coal India Limited...
Power ministry to speed up work on super-critical units

Thursday 18 June '09

Seeking to add 5,653 MW of power during the next 100 days, the Power Ministry has decided to expedite the pace of the promised ultra mega projects....
SteelMin pushes for duty cuts to help industry

Tuesday 16 June '09

Responding to requests from steelmakers, who have been seeking further protection from cheap imports at a time of economic downturn....
Development programmes may converge with NREGS

Tuesday 16 June '09

Back in power after cashing in on its social sector programmes, the UPA government is all set to re-draw its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme....
Gross budgetary support to go up by Rs 50,000 crore

Saturday 13 June '09

In tune with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s desire that promises made in the Presidential speech to the joint session of Parliament be adhered to...
No big sops for captive, merchant power plants

Saturday 13 June '09

Bowing to pressure from ministries concerned, the power ministry has decided against extending mega power benefits to merchant power plants...
Hard to do an NREGA with food: Panel

Thursday 11 June '09

Arguing that the proposed food security act will not be a cakewalk like the much-hyped NREGA...
NMDC to pick up at least 51 pc in struggling KIOCL

Thursday 11 June '09

In a bid to bail out its ailing behemoth Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited from its financial morass...
Govt may hike royalty on iron ore, mop up Rs 2K crore

Monday 8 June '09

With the steel industry mounting pressure on the government to contain the export of iron ore, the Committee....
PM looks at Infosys chief Nilekani for Plan panel

Friday 5 June '09

In a move that will for the first time involve India Inc in economic policy-making, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh....
Centre says can’t give any more coal to Karnataka, MP

Friday 5 June '09

The NDA-ruled states of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are unlikely to gain any respite on their power production front...
New ministers to re-look at proposals from last UPA term

Wednesday 3 June '09

The UPA government has turned its attention to the unfinished business from its previous tenure.
‘Spl category status to states does not help’

Monday 1 June '09

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s demand for special category status for his state has led the Planning Commission question the very utility....
They changed your CGHS before minister came in

Saturday 30 May '09

In what seems as a stealth move that may well present a fait accompli to minister Ghulam Nabi Azad...
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