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Explaining the hike, PM will address the nation today

Wednesday 4 June '08

The political repercussions of a hike in fuel prices has prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to address the nation...
Optimists: boost to entrepreneurship; Pessimists: farming’s no good

Friday 30 May '08

Employment in Rural India grew at a much faster clip than in urban areas between 1998 and 2005. Interestingly...
‘No magic wand to bring down inflation, silly to expect it’

Tuesday 27 May '08

Jahangir Aziz, the new principal economic advisor, takes over in difficult times: high inflation, slowing growth and general elections early next year.
Dark lining has a silver cloud: Growth closer to 9% last yr

Friday 23 May '08

While rising inflation and the shadow of a slowdown haunt the Government, it has some reason to cheer.
Fighting inflation: Need to avoid drastic knee-jerks, cautions PM

Tuesday 20 May '08

Barely weeks after he said that there was no need for “scare-mongering,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today strongly voiced his reservations...
Exports bring cheer to inflation-hit

Monday 19 May '08

If there is one silver lining in the dark clouds of high inflation and slow industrial output hovering around the India economy...
Futures signal uptrend in agri-commodity prices

Wednesday 14 May '08

The price signals emanating from the commodities futures market may not be very comforting for the government...
Trashing own panel, Govt bans futures in four more

Thursday 8 May '08

The war on inflation turned more aggressive and arbitrary today with the commodities market regulator...
JnNURM flounders in reforms

Wednesday 7 May '08

Urban Infrastructure As flagship governance scheme enters its fourth year, only 15% of the committed funds have been released.
Govt chases ‘cartels’ but the watchdog has no teeth

Monday 5 May '08

At a time when the Government is accusing cement, steel and tyre companies of raising prices through cartelisation...
Regulator points at Rs 3000-crore ‘hole’ in Govt staff pension kitty

Thursday 1 May '08

In what puts a question mark on the pension status of lakhs of government employees who joined service after January 1...
Dr gives India Inc a second dose: you need ‘sober’ lifestyle, salary

Wednesday 30 April '08

Stung politically by rising prices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked India Inc to tighten its belt by bringing in a measure...
Sen retracts, drops call for banning futures

Wednesday 30 April '08

Abhijit Sen, member, Planning Commission, who chaired the committee on futures trading in commodities...
Let ban on trading in key commodities remain: Sen panel

Monday 21 April '08

Despite its inability to conclude emphatically whether futures trading fuelled a rise in prices...
Lapse of FCRA Ordinance boosts dabba trading in commodities

Monday 21 April '08

Even as the government awaits the Abhijit Sen committee report on the impact of futures market on price rise...
SEZs have come to stay: PM

Wednesday 4 October '06

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said special economic zones were here to stay. Underscoring the inter-ministerial wrangles — especially between the Commerce and Finance ministries — over SEZs, he said, “SEZs have come to stay
On terror, PM says: Pakistan will have to walk the talk

Wednesday 4 October '06

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India will “test the waters” of the joint mechanism it has agreed to with Pakistan by sharing the evidence of the Mumbai train blasts.
Mbeki assures support at NSG

Tuesday 3 October '06

South Africa today said it would support India’s case in the Nuclear Suppliers Group once the US Congress clears the civilian nuclear deal with India.
In S Africa, PM recalls the 9/11 of Satyagraha

Monday 2 October '06

On September 11, 1906, over 3,000 South Africans of Asian origin gathered to oppose the infamous Black Act at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg.
Tracing Gandhi’s steps in S Africa

Sunday 1 October '06

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must have been shocked — on his arrival at Durban — to hear from his High Commission that seven India staff...
How not to land in a controversy

Monday 19 June '06

Land acquisition is controversial because India doesn’t have a transparent land market
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