Retail players seek industry status, unrestricted FDI The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: The retail companies are hoping that the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would accord industry status to the sector and allow unrestricted foreign direct investment inflow. | "There should be less restrictions on the retail s...
Budget may provide for recapitalisation of public sector banks The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee may announce on Monday recapitalisation of public sector banks to help them meet the credit demand of productive sectors, especially those hit hard by the global financial meltdown. | He had gi...
Budget may provide for recapitalisation of public sector banks The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee may announce on Monday recapitalisation of public sector banks to help them meet the credit demand of productive sectors, especially those hit ...
Budget likely to double import duty on steel to 10 pc The Times Of India | Text: MUMBAI: Steel makers' persistent demand for increasing import duty on the alloy is likely to be partially met in the budget to be presented by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Mond...
UPA failed to use Rs.72,500 crore for Dalits: Study The Times Of India | 5 Jul 2009, 1310 hrs IST, IANS Text: NEW DELHI: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may wax eloquent about empowering the downtrodden, but in the last five years it has denied the Schedul...
Deshmukh for lowering excise duty on big cars The Times Of India | 5 Jul 2009, 1301 hrs IST, PTI Text: NEW DELHI: Concerned over the downturn in the automobile industry, Heavy Industries Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has asked the finance minister to cut exci...
Have a lazy Sunday, Pranab Babu! The Times Of India | Text: Today while the rest of us are enjoying a lazy Sunday, the finance minister, poor man, will be toil...
ISRO eyes 25% revenue growth in 2009-10 The Times Of India | Text: KOLKATA: The Indian Space Research Organisation is expecting a 25 percent growth in its revenue in 2009-10, ISRO chair...
Include Inclusion in this All-Inclusive Budget Wall Street Journal By PAUL BECKETT | Perhaps, like me, you already have budget fatigue. | I look forward to watching Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee bust out some of his fanciest political dance moves on the floor of Parliament as he tries to balance the massive weig...
Farmers to reap good harvest from budget The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: India's vital but antiquated farm sector may next week finally get the funding it needs to realise its rich potential, with likely big investments in irrigati...
Rupee eases as dollar gains overseas, stocks eyed The Times Of India | Text: MUMBAI: The rupee eased on Friday, pressured by the dollar's gains overseas, and traders awaited opening deals in local equities for cues on capital inflows. | At 9:06 a.m., the partially ...
Cardamom gains flavour on export demand The Times Of India | Text: MUMBAI: While most commodities were down this week, cardamom bucked the trend and showed an upside of 2.6% due to low arrivals and export demand. Cardamom July contract on MCX closed at Rs 883 per kg against the previous week close of Rs 860. Even in spot market at Kerala, price of premi...
Economic Survey calls for sweeping reforms The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Suggesting some sweeping reforms in areas like foreign direct investment, divestment, taxation and the subsidy regime, India's Economic Survey says the country can achieve 7.75 per cent growth this year despite the difficult global circumstances. | The economy can even expand ...
